Take Two

Junkyards in Coachella are transforming into pot farms, SoCal's smog has worsened for the second year in a row, how 'blended learning' works.

How Governor Brown is poising himself as the world's climate change leader, a new opera brings Martians to Los Angeles, Sonoma County is ready for tourism.

The fate of some Vietnamese refugees hangs in the balance, LA's city libraries aren't as safe as you think, Santa's Village returns.

Though vets may have served in different times and places, a special connection is shared. New vets at American Legion Hollywood Post 43. Honoring those who served.

LA County's homeless vets problem and possible solutions, Netflix tries its hand at comic books, Google Earth's street-level pollution measuring initiative.

Some argue higher taxes will only help boost the illicit pot market, Magic Johnson's legacy outside of sports, following the Disney fallout—do movie critic matter?

L.A.'s cold war nuclear deterrents are still hidden in plain sight, a study found self-driving cars may be safest now, the EV federal tax credit may be going away.

LAPD union calling for easier access to Hep A vaccine, taking back the phrase "Allahu Akbar," Is Joshua Tree losing its meaning to the Instagram generation?

The aftermath of LAist's shutdown, the trash pick-up program that's creating an entry point to stable employment for the homeless, remembering Selena Quintanilla.

The Dodgers broke hearts all over LA when they lost the World Series to the Astros, exercise in a pill, how the Day of the Dead has become profit oriented.

California Democrats convened in San Diego this weekend, under new regulations self-driving cars will be allowed to have no pedals or wheels, Weinstein Company will file for bankruptcy.

Expanding past the radio dial and welcoming LAist to the KPCC family, a violinist's ties with the holocaust, the history of chuckwagons...the original food trucks.

The challenges of clearing homeless from the Santa Ana River trail, touring a new exhibit at the California African-American Museum, recovering gold from a shipwreck.

How Los Angeles catapulted Billy Graham to success, a guide to spotting bots on social media, Gen Z comes together against guns.

Protesting offshore drilling, some of the legislation that could impact the state the most, Ed O'Bannon's most important win was on a different type of court.

Two of the US Olympic bobsledders grew up right here in sunny SoCal, to wipe past pot offenses people must go through the courts, deconstructing "Black Panther."

Following the shooting in Florida, we take a look at campus security. The commercialization of Lunar New Year, how homelessness in the O.C. is similar to L.A.

We asked KPCC listeners to tell us how they came together in the city of Angels, has the California dream changed? LA is well represented at New York fashion week.

Department of insurance is investigating Aetna after some troubling allegations, drought era water restrictions may become permanent, spring has come early.

Understanding how to prevent future mudslides, why a rink in Lakewood attracts top athletes, an assembly member's mission to ban tackle football before high school.

Gov. Brown's plan to work with the Community College System to make advanced learning more accessible, CA's antiquarian book fair, your weekend preview.

Gov. Brown's massive water delivery project gets scaled back, for now, shopping online in your car, Sacramento in the limelight following "Lady Bird's" success.