LLos Angeles Read More Bear euthanized, cubs orphaned, over objections of SoCal city leadersMarch 18, 2026 State officials have euthanized a bear who swiped a woman in Monrovia over the weekend despite objections from…
CCalifornia Read More California urges Trump administration to rethink Colorado River plansMarch 4, 2026 Leaders of California, Arizona and Nevada are criticizing the Trump administration’s proposals for water cutbacks along the Colorado…
LLos Angeles Read More What the Supreme Court ruling on gender identity means for parentsMarch 4, 2026 The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday affirming the right of parents to know about their child’s gender identity at…
CCalifornia Read More California sues Trump administration over billions in canceled clean energy fundingFebruary 18, 2026 California is suing the Trump administration over its termination of billions of dollars in funding for high-profile clean…
LLos Angeles Read More Debate intensifies over water for California’s DeltaJanuary 29, 2026 The question of how to protect fish and the ecological health of rivers that feed California’s largest estuary…
LLong Beach Read More A banned pesticide is still showing up in Long Beach and other coastal communitiesJanuary 22, 2026 A highly toxic pesticide that was banned in California more than two decades ago is still widely used…
CCalifornia Read More California’s Delta is in poor ecological health, scientists sayJanuary 15, 2026 California’s biggest rivers converge in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the waterways and wetlands forming an ecosystem where…
CCalifornia Read More Recent storms boosted California’s snowpack, but there’s still a long way to goDecember 31, 2025 California’s snowpack remains below average despite the powerful atmospheric river storms that pounded the West Coast around Christmas,…
LLos Angeles Read More How the Trump administration sold out public lands in 2025December 26, 2025 Last February, I climbed into a Jeep and rumbled up a rocky shelf road that took me high…
LLos Angeles Read More How L.A. artists are processing the climate crisisNovember 20, 2025 Before I moved to L.A., I’d spent pretty much my entire professional life working for New York-based publications.…
CCalifornia Read More Little state oversight as child farmworkers toil in harsh conditionsNovember 20, 2025 MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. — The summer sun burned through the clouds in the Salinas Valley, where a bounty of berries…
CCalifornia Read More The surprisingly divisive world of California wildlife policyNovember 6, 2025 When I tell people what I cover for the Los Angeles Times, they’re delighted. A typical response is,…