The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office has an unusual unit at its office: A team dedicated to working with ...

A student is considered chronically absent when they miss at least 10% of a school year. In most states, that means missing about 18 days a year, regardless of whether the absences were excused.

Not counting his golf outings in Virginia, President Trump spent all or part of 14 days outside of Washington, D.C. during the first 31 days of the shutdown.

Many economists and business leaders are raising alarms about falling birthrates. But advocates for lower human populations ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto beat Toronto for the second time in a week, as the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers held off the ...

The Ambler Road would give mining companies access to a vast trove of untapped copper, cobalt and rare-earth minerals, but ...

Rates of colorectal cancer are rising, especially for people younger than 50. But it's hard to raise awareness for a cancer that a lot of us find hard to talk about.

If Prop 50 passes, Republican Congressman David Valadao, who has long represented one of the richest agricultural belts in the country, would be one of five Republicans whose seat could flip to ...

A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Monday to consider whether to pay at least partial SNAP food benefits -- even though millions of people will be without aid starting tomorrow.

Two federal judges ordered the Trump administration to use emergency funding to provide SNAP benefits. But it's unclear how much, or when, those funds would be provided before the funding runs dry.

FRESNO, Calif. – Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the return of more than 17,000 acres of ancestral land to the Tule River Indian ...

KVPR profiles local business owners and three of the key ingredients to celebrating the traditional Mexican holiday that ...