Lone drivers could eventually be able to use the 405’s carpool lanes as a result of toll lanes. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is in the early stages of plans for toll lanes between the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley and the 10 in West L.A., according to the L.A. Times.

The Supreme Court is turning to gun rights for the first time in nearly a decade, even though those who brought the case, New York City gun owners, already have won changes to the regulation they challenged.

A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal looked at 15 years of consumer surveys by the research firm MRI Simmons and found what many farm and ranch hands already knew: Levi’s are preferred by liberal-skewing urbanites, and Wranglers are the jeans of choice for rural conservatives.

As cold and rainy weather arrives in Southern California, tens of thousands of people will be living through it all outside.

The 2010s are coming to a close, and layperson and critic alike are flipping back through their memories for the most important and beloved films of the last decade.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Amy Nicholson and Tim Cogshell review this weekend’s new movie releases.

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

The American-born retail holiday known as Black Friday has been swelling amorphously, devouring everything in its path like the deformed Tetsuo in the dystopian anime classic Akira.

The Thanksgiving holiday is quickly approaching and many families will sit down to feast and give thanks.

Officials have confirmed that the weapon used in the Saugus High School shooting was a so-called “ghost gun,” a homemade firearm without a registration number.