Greater LA

On Monday night, Culver City Councilmembers moved forward with stronger protections for renters. Also, today marks the 10th anniversary of Michael Jackson's death. A decade later, what do we make of his death and legacy?

Los Angeles Football Club is currently first place in Major League Soccer. LAFC is a big operation with plenty of money and different owners from the sports and entertainment world, such as Magic Johnson and Mia Hamm. But what started as a business proposition has created a deeply passionate and vocal fan base. 

Hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail are backed up at the small town of Kennedy Meadows because of all the snow in the Sierras. The Port of LA has approved automation at the largest terminal, which could mean many jobs lost. Is Universal Basic Income an idea whose time has come?

Local poets share their work and talk about LA's spoken word scene. Also, LA County's supervisors have voted to expand the number of all-gender bathrooms.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has proposed a rule change that would remove families with mixed immigration status from public and Section 8 housing. This rule would affect many U.S. citizens and LA residents, including 55,000 children.

The United Methodist Church is facing a possible split over the issue of same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy. We hear from ministers and congregants at Hollywood United Methodist and Yorba Linda Methodist Church, who have mixed opinions on the international church's position.

Census experts say the “hardest to count” census tract in Southern California is a nondescript little patch of Koreatown. LAX is seeking proposals for what to do with the iconic Theme Building. And some long-time restaurants are being pushed out of Inglewood as rents go up.

The daughter of Mexican migrant field workers is now an engineer at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She dreams of being an astronaut and visiting Mars. Also, should we be worried about a "swarm" of earthquakes in the Inland Empire?

Federal immigration authorities drop off busloads of Central American migrants daily in San Bernardino and the Coachella Valley, where a local church is picking up the slack. Also, Greyhound buses are filling a need for migrants traveling throughout the U.S. to see their families. And while Democrats have a supermajority and bills waiting to move forward, they haven't accomplished much on affordable housing.

17-year-old Lupe Felix used to go to high school in Boyle Heights, but she moved to Tijuana last summer to live with her mom, who was deported. It's now Lupe’s senior year, and each day, she gets up at the crack of dawn to cross the border to go to school in San Diego.