Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's proposed $8.5 billion budget for the city of LA this year, and some big journalism award-winners here in Southern California.

Comments on social media about yesterday's two earthquakes had people speculating that because of the location of the jolts, they may have had something to do with hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – that goes on in the Baldwin Hills area.

Study after study has shown that fewer people can afford to buy a home in LA and its outskirts than in practically any other city in the nation.

It's been 100 years (and a day) since residents of the San Fernando Valley voted to become a part of the city of Los Angeles.

Campaigns to move the St. Louis Rams or San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders to Los Angeles are getting a lot of talk at the NFL owners' meeting in Phoenix this week.

Real estate heir Robert Durst, accused of killing at least three people over a 20-year span, was charged today with murder for the 2000 shooting death of his former confidant Susan Berman in her Benedict Canyon home. The break in the case came from an HBO documentary called The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.

A West LA area gets a new ethnic designation, while the future of a La Cienega diner gets murkier. Two development stories of interest in a couple of neighborhoods across the city that's brought people together.

Delegates attending the California Republican Party convention in Sacramento over the weekend voted to officially recognize the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group. Does the move signal a shift within the GOP?

Throw a rock – or pigskin – across a number of different parts of Los Angeles County, and you're likely to hit a piece of land that developers are eyeing for an NFL stadium.

Los Angeles and the nation have lost some prominent journalists in the past week. Kevin Roderick and Steve Chiotakis remember some print and broadcast legends.