Living News from KPCC

It may not feel like Oscar season, but four honorees are scheduled to pick up gold trophies on Saturday. This ceremony at Hollywood and Highland is a new event on Hollywood’s awards calendar.

The first Southland monument dedicated to recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor is about two-thirds finished on a patch of grass next to Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles.

The original grand marshal of this year’s San Fernando Valley Veterans Day parade has withdrawn from Wednesday’s event. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided not to attend after last week’s shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.

Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall fell. East Germans kept away from loved ones for 28 years swarmed past the wall's suddenly unguarded checkpoints. An Orange County doctor was living in Germany at the time.

Free H1N1 vaccine clinics across Los Angeles County are on the calendar through Thanksgiving, 2009, but thousands of people in Monterey Park aren't putting it off. The free clinic line stretched around Barnes Park on Thursday and took some people four ...

This week is a big one for the issue of same-sex marriage. Maine is voting today on whether to keep it legal... Tomorrow is the year anniversary of the passage of Proposition 8 here in California. One of the arguments that opponents of gay marriage ...

Water use restrictions and occasional brushfires are constant reminders that the Southland is enduring another year of drought. Here’s a partial remedy: drought-tolerant landscaping workshops begin this Saturday, Nov. 7.

Detectives from the North Hollywood branch of the Los Angeles Police Department have spent the day investigating a shooting that wounded two this morning at a synagogue in Valley Village. Police and city officials have also worked to keep the public from ...

Detectives from the North Hollywood branch of the Los Angeles Police Department have spent the day investigating a shooting that wounded two this morning at a synagogue in Valley Village. Police and city officials have also worked to keep the public from ...

If you’re listening online, or checking there for messages, the sequence of events that made it possible reached a milestone 40 years ago. UCLA’s scheduled a daylong event to mark the anniversary.

On Saturday, Bill Bratton ends his high-profile and sometimes controversial run as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. KPCC’s Frank Stoltze has the first of three stories that examine Bratton’s imprint on the LAPD.

The Long Beach Convention Center opens today to “The Women’s Conference 2009.” The event has grown in each of its 20-plus years.

For the next six months, S. David Freeman is filling in as general manager for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. He's filled the post before - he ran the DWP from 1997 to 2001. In the years since, the LADWP has come under fire, for ...

Los Angeles County public health officials today opened a free clinic at Encino's Balboa Sports Complex. It is the county's first such clinic to help combat the virus that has struck around the world. Around the country there are big delays in getting ...

Melissa Block is a 24-year veteran of NPR and has been hosting All Things Considered since 2003, after nearly a decade as an NPR correspondent based in New York.

Journalists are paying tribute to a former Los Angeles Times Washington bureau chief whose reporting helped to boost the paper’s national profile. Jack Nelson was 80 years old when he died of pancreatic cancer today.

If you live or work in South Orange County, you'll hear a familiar sound Wednesday morning. The San Onofre Nuclear Station will do an annual test of its sirens between 10 and noon today.

Volunteers are almost finished restoring Butterfly Park in Huntington Beach. They just need to plant a few dozen more trees Satrday morning and are inviting people to help out.

A sweet old fashioned pie eating contest was held Saturday in Malibu. KPCC’s Patricia Nazario had the tasty job of judging the pies. She talks with KPCC's Shirley Jahad from the pie fest at the Malibu Country Mart on Cross Creek road just off PCH.