Drought

An irrigation canal that feeds rice fields in Knights Landing, California on August 3, 2021.

Will California reform its oversight of water rights?

Sticker Shock

LONG BEACH, CALIF. - DEC. 16, 2020. A shoppers chooses fresh produce in the Von's grocery store iin Long Beach on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)

Grocery shopping has become a strategy game. Angelenos share how they get by

Homelessness Crisis

Los Angeles, CA - May 24: Sierra Roberts, 36, who is addicted to meth and a trans person, sits alone on an empty curb with a suitcase on the empty 47th Street bridge overpass of the 110 Freeway and has been living underneath a bridge at the 110 Freeway in South Los Angeles Wednesday, May 24, 2023. Roberts is one of the remaining homeless that have not been reached by Inside Safe program crews, not taken the opportunity, and some of the last to remain, auditing to a new batch of people that have arrived. Since taking office, Mayor Karen Bass has told audiences that she has found that L.A.'s unhoused will say yes when offered the chance to move inside. But in some locations, the mayor is hitting a wall - sending her Inside Safe team to encampments where not everyone has been willing to leave. Some have decided to stay put and in some locations, new homeless people have quickly arrived, putting up new tents. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Will Congress deliver L.A. funding for homelessness?

The return of earmarks rekindled a debate among the three California Democrats vying for a seat in the U.S. Senate. It’s a rare area of policy disagreement.

In downtown L.A., Bass’ plan to clear encampments faces crime, addiction and resistance

NIMBYism over homeless housing spans race and politics, firing up suburban protests

California Living

Your favorite Disneyland ride is ... not what we picked as No. 1

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Gravel cycling rocks. Here are 11 spots around L.A. that get you biking freely in nature.

A collage of a Union Station platform entrance, a field at Elysian Park, and a student using a telescope at Griffith Observatory

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Immigration

Tijuana, Mexico-May 10, 2023-Migrants hoping to cross into the United States from Tijuana, Mexico, try to buy warm clothes and food in an area north of the Tijuana, Mexico border, but south of the second border wall in anticipation of a change in immigration policy, Title 42, which may allow them to apply for asylum. The change is scheduled to go into effect at midnight on May 11, 2023. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

State of Florida apparently sent migrants to Sacramento, officials say

South American migrants were unexpectedly flown from New Mexico to California’s capital and dropped off at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento in a move likely to inflame immigration debate.

Hollywood Negotiations

The Directors Guild of America headquarters is pictured on April 16, 2020, in Los Angeles. Hollywood's unions announced Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, that they have reached an agreement on pandemic protocols with major studios that will allow the broad resumption of production of films and television after six months of empty sets and widespread unemployment. The Directors Guild of America, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Basic Crafts unions and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists jointly announced the deal reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after months of planning and negotiating. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Directors Guild reaches deal on a new contract with the studios

The Directors Guild of America said it has reached a ‘historic deal’ with the major studios on a new three-year film and TV contract.

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California politics

US President Bill Clinton answers questions on October 16, 1996 during an election rally in San Diego. (Photo by Mike NELSON / AFP) (Photo by MIKE NELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Barabak: How California, land of Nixon and Reagan, turned blue and changed U.S. politics

Through money and lavish attention, Bill Clinton colored California a lasting shade of blue, dramatically reshaping the nation’s presidential map in the process.

LGBTQ+

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA - JUNE 02: A passing motorist shows his feelings as he passes counterprotesters in front of Saticoy Elementary School on Friday, June 2, 2023. Some parents kept their children home from school to protest the planned Gay Pride and Rainbow Day assembly The parents said they have to right to teach or not teach their children about gay relationships and said that they are too small to be taught this material. They directed their ire at the Los Angeles Unified School District. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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Transgender adults in Florida ‘blindsided’ that new law also limits their access to healthcare

Creature features

"Researchers with the Shark Lab at theCalifornia State University, Long Beach have found that sharks and humans swim together at some California beaches more often than previously thought."

Great white sharks more common off coast of California than once thought

If you have swum off the coast of Santa Barbara or San Diego recently, chances are you swam next to a young shark.

LAGUNA BEACH CA JULY 11, 2020 - Goat herds clear native grasses and non-native vegetation in Laguna Beach on July 11, 2020. (Marc Martin / Los Angeles Times)

New salary rules may jeopardize goat industry

Multiple sightings of what is believed to be the same wolverine occurred in May in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains.

Rare wolverine spotted in California, second specimen in a century

Opinion

Editorial: Cleaning up California’s oilfields may cost $21.5 billion. Taxpayers shouldn’t get the bill
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Los Angeles, CA - January 14: Incoming Los Angeles Unified Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho addresses a press conference at Elysian Heights Elementary Arts Magnet on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Irfan Khan)

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From L to R: Adina Verson and Daya Curley in the world premiere of "A Transparent Musical" at Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum May 23 through June 25, 2023. Photo credit: Craig Schwartz Photography

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