Sunday's take-over of the LA Times masthead by Despicable Me's minions raises questions about the editorial wall that separates journalism from advertising.

The ongoing drought is pitting the state against local water districts in the fight over water rights. And it’s raising awareness of a system of assigning those rights that goes back well over a century, in some cases.

Parents at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School in Koreatown are upset that a popular teacher has been benched by the LA Unified School District. Something he said in reference to Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn got him into some hot water.

Former Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll passed away over the weekend from a rare neurological disorder. He was 73.

A small group of protestors as set up camp outside of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's house in Hancock Park,  after reports that the LAPD has decided that two officers were justified in shooting a 25 year old African-American Ezell Ford last summer.

The City of Industry is holding its first council election in 17 years tomorrow. There's been almost no campaigning, and there are only 125 registered voters.

On Memorial Day every year, the Los Angeles National Cemetery features red and blue with a tradition of American flag planting next to every gravestone.

At LA City Hall they're throwing around ideas on upping the minimum wage.

In an article published in The New York Times over the weekend, the newspaper reported that Los Angeles is "widely acknowledged to have become strikingly more cosmopolitan in recent years."

Rescuers from Southern California are headed to Nepal to help with aftermath of Saturday's magnitude 7.8 earthquake.