Greater LA

We speak with a member of the Disney Parks Moms Panel, which is made up of 42 men and women who help people plan their Disney vacations.

This Tuesday through Thursday, Los Angeles County will conduct its annual “point in time” count of people experiencing homelessness around the region. We get the basics. 

On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we replay some of our favorite episodes. Local poets share their work and discuss LA's spoken word scene. One new mom was stuck with a $1.7 million bill. And an exhibit explores colonialism in Africa and Europe.

Traffic got you down? Wouldn't it be nice to just fly over it all? A new company is working to make that possible.

Angelenos can reduce their carbon footprints by composting, but finding a place to do that is tough. The nonprofit Compost LA maintains community gardens where residents can drop off food scraps, but many are at capacity, and cities have different rules on what’s allowed to go into certain bins.

We visit three new coffee shops in LA’s historically black neighborhoods to see how designs of the spaces signal who’s welcomed and who’s not.

The BLVD is a pint-sized, unassuming dive bar in Boyle Heights that hosts rap battles every other Friday. The last winner of the rap battles took home $1000 cash.

Australian horticulturist Jo O'Connell came to Southern California decades ago to plant an Australian garden for a client in Ojai. She started a nursery selling Australian plants in Casitas Springs. Now she’s devastated by the destruction of plant life by the Australian wildfires.

Getting a car has never been easier. Even if you have bad credit and can’t really afford it, no problem. The business of financing cars for people with low credit scores or low incomes is booming.

Tensions between the US and Iran continue to mount following last week’s U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian general. We hear reactions from Iranian Americans living in LA.