Brandon Johnson

Loquat trees seem to be everywhere in SoCal this season. Eat the egg-shaped, apricot-colored fruits fresh off trees, or use them to make jams, syrups, chutney, and more.

As bumble bees decline, local volunteers fan out to find them. Together they’ll create the California Bumble Bee Atlas to help guide conservation decisions.

Sometimes the best way to cope with anxiety over the climate crisis is to focus on something you can control. So why not start with your trash?

California and LA are seeing major pushes for “social housing,” which is government-supported, not owned by a for-profit entity, and is affordable to people of different income levels.

Catalytic converter thefts have skyrocketed since the pandemic. Why is the part in such demand, and what should you do if it happens to you? KCRW has the answers.

Prop HHH, the LA voter-approved $1.2 billion homeless housing bond measure, has been slow and costly. But six years in, thousands of units are finally opening.

With 23 Senate seats up for election, Democrats are worried. Does the vice presidency matter in an election?

KCRW remembers Gloria Molina, the first Latina on the LA City Council, Board of Supervisors, and State Assembly.

Celine Song’s film “Past Lives” is about what happens when a girl from Korea emigrates and leaves behind her childhood sweetheart, and they reconnect decades later.