Various public and nonprofit teams are targeting drug use in MacArthur Park, but it’s not enough, yet, to solve the public health crisis.

Released after just under 30 years in prison for a murder he committed at 16, Nicholas Nabors was bogged down in transitional housing until a volunteer for the nonprofit Homecoming Project took him into her Compton home.

Efforts to reform life inside the walls of the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla are making headway. But most female prisoners have experienced levels of trauma that make it hard to build trust.

Legal fight between Jay-Z and the Texas attorney representing clients who allege they were sexually assaulted by Sean “Diddy”‘ Combs takes an unusual turn.

Under the Clean Air Act, California can adopt more stringent vehicle emission requirements than the federal government, but must obtain a waiver from the EPA.

California policymakers and environmentalists view recent Supreme Court actions as a small victory for clean air, but worry about future legal challenges.

The investigation of Lt. Garrido led to criminal accusations against a captain.

San Diego supervisors voted to restrict law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration officials, but Sheriff Kelly Martinez said she would not comply with the county policy.

Forty years ago, Michael Anthony Cox was convicted of the murders of three girls in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Years later, the two main witnesses at his trial, also teenagers, recanted, saying police had pressured them into false stories. So why is Cox still on death row?

Hannah Kobayashi, who disappeared after missing her connecting flight at LAX, says she didn’t learn of the media coverage until she returned from Mexico.