Debate intensifies over water for California’s Delta
The question of how to protect fish and the ecological health of rivers that feed California’s largest estuary…
A banned pesticide is still showing up in Long Beach and other coastal communities
A highly toxic pesticide that was banned in California more than two decades ago is still widely used…
California’s Delta is in poor ecological health, scientists say
California’s biggest rivers converge in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the waterways and wetlands forming an ecosystem where…
Recent storms boosted California’s snowpack, but there’s still a long way to go
California’s snowpack remains below average despite the powerful atmospheric river storms that pounded the West Coast around Christmas,…
How the Trump administration sold out public lands in 2025
Last February, I climbed into a Jeep and rumbled up a rocky shelf road that took me high…
How L.A. artists are processing the climate crisis
Before I moved to L.A., I’d spent pretty much my entire professional life working for New York-based publications.…
Little state oversight as child farmworkers toil in harsh conditions
MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. — The summer sun burned through the clouds in the Salinas Valley, where a bounty of berries…
The surprisingly divisive world of California wildlife policy
When I tell people what I cover for the Los Angeles Times, they’re delighted. A typical response is,…
California officials push back on Trump claim that Prop. 50 vote is a ‘GIANT SCAM’
As California voters went to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballot on a measure that could block…
California returns land to the Tule River tribe, where elk will roam
In the scrub-brush foothills between the long flat fields of the San Joaquin Valley and the mighty peaks…
Hunger looms as millions prepare to lose food aid amid shutdown
Michaela Thompson, an unemployed mother in the San Fernando Valley, relies on federal assistance to afford the specialized…
No public warnings before Marines test-fired live munitions over busy Interstate 5, train lines
New questions are emerging about why there were no public warnings before the U.S. Marines fired over Interstate…