Bear euthanized, cubs orphaned, over objections of SoCal city leaders
State officials have euthanized a bear who swiped a woman in Monrovia over the weekend despite objections from…
California urges Trump administration to rethink Colorado River plans
Leaders of California, Arizona and Nevada are criticizing the Trump administration’s proposals for water cutbacks along the Colorado…
What the Supreme Court ruling on gender identity means for parents
The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday affirming the right of parents to know about their child’s gender identity at…
California sues Trump administration over billions in canceled clean energy funding
California is suing the Trump administration over its termination of billions of dollars in funding for high-profile clean…
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,…