California
Has this famously liberal city moved too far right to embrace an old-school progressive for mayor?
Sept. 19, 2024
San Franciscans have rejected the city’s far-left image in recent years, pulling it toward the center. Aaron Peskin says he wants to be the next “progressive” mayor.
Sept. 17, 2024
Hollywood Inc.
Amazon is launching advertisements on its Prime Video streaming platform early next year in the U.S. and several other countries, plus — for $2.99 more a month — an ad-free option.
Sept. 22, 2023
Lifestyle
Tie-dye artist and former model Laura La Rue is raising her 16-month-old daughter in a former school bus. “I’m trying to be present for my daughter,” she says.
Escapes. Travel. Adventure.
People inevitably think ocean when California gets mentioned. And why not?
Sept. 18, 2024
This summer, the Russian River in western Sonoma County has been the site of pitched battles over public access rights to the prized strips of beach that sit at the water’s edge.
Sept. 20, 2024
Politics
Haitians in Springfield are not the only ones feeling threatened in the wake of false accusations that they are eating their neighbors’ pets. Across town, people are anxious about what’s next.
Food
Chef Josiah Citrin opened Mélisse in Santa Monica in 1999, blazing a trail for a new way to look at French cooking in California.
Sept. 16, 2024
For the last 70 years, Wilmington residents have faced off to become the blue-collar community’s honorary mayor. The winner gets a two-year term that offers no salary, no staff and no political power.
Rent-A-Center “relied on deceptive and unlawful tactics to pad its bottom line,” California’s attorney general said.
Aug. 2, 2022