LOS ANGELES -- It was an uncomplicated brain surgery the hospital had performed hundreds of times before (499 times, to be exact). But to celebrate Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center's 500th deep brain stimulation operation Thursday, surgeons performed the world's first live-Vined brain surgery.

The operation, which lead neurologist...

Los Angeles voters opted to cap the city's medical marijuana dispensaries at 135 locations after voting overwhelmingly in favor of Proposition D.

The proposition, which was put on the ballot by members of the Los Angeles City Council and supported by mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti, holds dispensary locations in...

Eric Garcetti will be Los Angeles' next mayor.

By 3 a.m. Wednesday, with 100 percent of the votes counted, Garcetti had received 54 percent of the vote, making him L.A.'s first elected Jewish mayor.

Opponent Wendy Greuel, who received 46 percent of the vote, called Garcetti to...

In a blow against the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, the second-largest city in the U.S. sent a strong, if symbolic, message against corporate personhood and unlimited corporate spending on political campaigns.

Los Angeles voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition C, a resolution that instructed local and state officials to promote...

There are a lot of things a bride could keep to remember her wedding day: a dress, a candle, perhaps her bouquet.

But for Drew Barrymore, one of those mementos is a multi-million dollar mansion. And she's kissing the keepsake goodbye by listing the property for $7.5 million.

Mindy Kaling's got a new "Project."

In addition to her brand new, top-rated show on Fox, the comedienne has just signed up for a doozy: fixing up a 1926 home.

The Huffington Post has confirmed that Kaling plunked down $1.695 million for a three-bedroom, four-bathroom home in...

A billboard that sexualizes the act of breastfeeding has been deemed too racy for the streets of Los Angeles.

The poster, an advertisement for CougarLife.com, shows a naked woman breastfeeding her baby. It went up on Sunset Boulevard just after Mother's Day, but will be taken down...

"How do I land?"

It's probably something a pilot should ask long before getting into the cockpit. But one professional skywriter traced the cheeky message above downtown Los Angeles on March 23 as part of an elaborate prank by comedian Kurt Braunohler.

If you blinked, you missed it --...

Los Angeles road warriors have a new weapon in their arsenal: a map of the top 20 intersections where the LAPD issued speeding tickets in 2012.

CBS2's David Goldstein obtained data from the LAPD on the speeding tickets -- 43,426 in all -- and HuffPost LA plotted...

The high-flying (literally!) plot twists of AMC's Madison Avenue set touched down on tragedy at the end of Sunday's episode with the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

Of course, "Mad Men" viewers have been waiting eagerly to see how the show deals with the tumultuous events of 1968, and...

Yes Reese, we all know who you are.

In addition to being the latest Hollywood actress to let her inner diva get the best of her (in front of an Atlanta police officer's dash cam, no less), she's also the latest celebrity that seems to be

By the second day of the Camarillo Springs wildfire, authorities were grateful that only 15 homes and a handful of RVs were damaged in the Camarillo area, about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

But with the loss of 15 square miles of wilderness, brush and campgrounds,...

What does the Pacific Palisades look like through the eyes of a homeless person? For Amos, who lives in a tent in downtown LA, the wealthy community is a world away from the sights, sounds and smells of of his normal life on the streets. He visited the tony Westside...

NBA center Jason Collins has become America's first male athlete in a major professional sport to come out as gay. In a personal essay for Sports Illustrated published Monday, the NBA free agent goes into detail about his happy childhood in Los Angeles and the role his hometown...

Los Angeles bicyclists who made it to the sixth CicLAvia event Sunday probably made way at one point for the "Stoopid Tall" bike -- a 14.5-foot pimped out beach cruiser ridden by the unofficial "King of CicLAvia" -- Richie Trimble.

Trimble uploaded footage of his entire ride, from...

Los Angeles is full of some VERY bad Korean-Americans -- at least according to Anthony Bourdain.

The subversive food and travel show host paid a visit to LA's Koreatown neighborhood for Sunday's episode of "Parts Unknown," where he met up with the worst Koreans of all: multimillionaire artist David Choe...

Some people just can't handle Coachella on 4/20.

A naked man was arrested Saturday at the desert music festival and photographers caught the entire thing on camera. The x-rated partier was grooving to The xx when security officers showed up to spoil his fun, according to LAist....

Nose-to-tail cooking, funky fermented ingredients and pickled-everything. Filipino food has all the trappings of the next big "it-cuisine" in the United States restaurant scene. Yet unlike Korean, Thai or Vietnamese food, most Americans would probably be hard-pressed to name or describe even one Filipino dish.

Marvin Gapultos is on...

Have you ever heard of Esther Eng, a trailblazing Chinese-American filmmaker? By the time she was 35, she had directed 10 feature films. Notably, she was also the one who gave Bruce Lee his first-ever starring role, in her film...

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles public health officials Wednesday began offering free bacterial meningitis vaccinations to low-income and uninsured residents after the deaths of two LA county residents within the past six months.

Public Health Director Dr. Jonathan Fielding said in a press conference that there was no continuing...