If you drive by Home Depot or Ace Hardware, you might see people waiting outside for work such as painting a room, fixing a roof, or moving furniture. These day laborers feel more anxiety now, as Trump has ramped up efforts targeting immigrants. But that's not stopping them from seeking work. 

LGBTQ activist and Democratic donor Ed Buck owns an apartment building where 26-year-old Gemmel Moore died two years ago. This year, another man died in Buck’s apartment. Moore’s friends and family want legal action. Will LA County respond? 

The Sundown Series is an amateur sailboat race open to anyone, and it costs $5 to enter. The race occurs on the third Friday of every month from May to September. We hop aboard a boat called the Rascal with a nearly all-women crew.

In the Central Coast beach town of Carpinteria, local produce farms are turning into cannabis farms. Residents are torn about whether to enjoy or protest the transformations. Plus, Dodger Stadium is being renovated, and two LA art galleries are featuring a retrospective of San Francisco's Dilexi gallery.

Host Steve Chiotakis goes on a grunion run. Embattled LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva takes tough questions from KCRW's Warren Olney. And Metro wants to give buses in northeast LA their own dedicated lanes, but not everyone's on board with the idea.

Despite thousands of requests to repair LA’s sidewalks each year, city officials say they can only manage to fix about ten a month. Some immigrant mothers who were separated from their children are suing the Trump administration. And sea level rise could mean big trouble for California's coastal communities.

Santa Monica is focused on housing the 37 most expensive homeless people in the city. The effort echoes a program that was working in LA County until the Board of Supervisors shut it down. And San Onofre Nuclear Plant is no longer running, but there's still 3.5 million pounds of nuclear waste on the site with nowhere else to go.

What are the key issues for black voters in LA right now? In an in-depth survey released today, researchers with the Pat Brown Institute asked black voters about housing and homelessness, education, gun violence, and more. 

The Annenberg Space for Photography's new exhibit, "Contact High," pays tribute to some of hip-hop’s greatest stars in all their glory and behind the scenes. And in her new documentary, Rachel Mason chronicles the story of her parents’ two gay porn stores.

The small city of Downey ballooned in size in the 1960s, as thousands of scientists, engineers and blue collar workers designed and built the capsule that transported astronauts to the moon and back. On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, we speak with some of the engineers who made it happen.