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,…
CCalifornia Read More California officials push back on Trump claim that Prop. 50 vote is a ‘GIANT SCAM’November 4, 2025 As California voters went to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballot on a measure that could block…
CCalifornia Read More California returns land to the Tule River tribe, where elk will roamOctober 29, 2025 In the scrub-brush foothills between the long flat fields of the San Joaquin Valley and the mighty peaks…
LLos Angeles Read More Hunger looms as millions prepare to lose food aid amid shutdownOctober 28, 2025 Michaela Thompson, an unemployed mother in the San Fernando Valley, relies on federal assistance to afford the specialized…
CCalifornia Read More No public warnings before Marines test-fired live munitions over busy Interstate 5, train linesOctober 23, 2025 New questions are emerging about why there were no public warnings before the U.S. Marines fired over Interstate…