Hundreds of federal agents descended this week on downtown LA’s Fashion District, making arrests as part of what prosecutors say is a sophisticated operation to launder money for Mexican drug cartels. Authorities took 9 people into custody, and seized more than $90 million.

The first Friday of the month is when we get the jobs report from the Labor Department. A lackluster one, nationally. But here in Southern California, some optimism about film and TV production jobs staying local, instead of being exported to other parts of the country.

The Los Angeles Unified School District has scrapped its $1 billion effort to provide all students and teachers with iPad tablets. Superintendent John Deasy says he wants to gather new bids for future phases of the program. On the first full week of school in L.A., what's the message coming from the head of the class?

As the severe drought continues in California, the state’s water authority is now actively imposing fines on people who waste any of the wet stuff.

While things have calmed down considerably in Ferguson, Missouri, in the last day or two, the people of that St. Louis suburb are still speaking out about the death of teenager Michael Brown. A similar incident is drawing protests in Los Angeles, which has had no shortage of officer-involved shootings of its own.

Motorcyclists who split lanes – dangerous driving or better for traffic?

More than 20 million gallons of water went pouring down Sunset Boulevard and onto the UCLA campus this week. The culprit? A 93-year old pipe that meanders a few feet under the road. And the age-old question is, who pays?

As cities go across the country, LA isn’t the most expensive - it’s not San Francisco or New York - but it’s pricey enough. And that has people in town scrambling for cheaper areas of town in which to live.

This week, House Speaker John Boehner said it’ll be difficult to monetarily address the flow of undocumented kids across the U.S./Mexico border, until the 2008 law that allowed their travels to the aforementioned place is changed. All the while, protests have continued in the town of Murrieta, in Riverside County, where busloads of migrant kids without parents were turned away a few weeks ago.