Binka Le Breton

LA City Councilman Joe Buscaino is running to replace Mayor Eric Garcetti, and he held his first official campaign event on Monday along the Venice Beach boardwalk.

Sherry Buchanan, author of “On the Ho Chi Minh Trail,” discusses what she learned about the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese women who survived its frontlines.

Santa Monica has a reputation as a paradise for lefties. But the city isn’t exactly welcoming to Latinos.

KCRW is joining other public radio stations up and down the state to mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.

Echo Park Lake reopened to the public this week after two months of being closed for repairs, with some obvious changes.

California will roll out a statewide electronic vaccine verification program, which Gov. Gavin Newsom does not call a passport.

Legalizing the sale of cannabis in California has turned out to be a fruitful endeavor for the state thanks to taxes.

Between 2016 and 2019, Bakersfield police officers used force that broke at least 45 bones in 31 people, an analysis of public records shows.

The former Congress member talks to Robert Scheer about his life and the dramatic events surrounding his political rise, as told in his new book “The Division of Light and Power.”