Drought

Irvine, California-Aug. 18, 2022-At the Syphon Reservoir in Irvine Ranch on Aug. 18, 2022, Paul Cook, general manager of the Irvine Ranch Water District, describes the project underway to raise the level of the Syphon Reservoir dam, which will store reclaimed water. The project will take many years to complete. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Federal officials announce $310 million in funding to combat ‘megadrought’

U.S. Rep. Katie Porter and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced funding for California drought resiliency and clean drinking water.

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Pandemic

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 11: A metro bus driver wears a face mask while driving the route along Soto Street, Los Angeles. Life around Cesar E. Chavez Blvd. and Soto St. has slow down as California officials extended stay-at-home orders into May and residents entered Easter weekend with unprecedented limits on their movements. Most of the people are adhering to the orders by mayor to wear masks while out running errands. Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

COVID-19 hit rail and bus workers hard in California

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 27: (Editor's note: This photo is initially for a Hayley Smith story.) Gabriela Martinez, right, is preparing a vaccination for Blandly Amaya at South Central Family Health Center on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. The center is located in a neighborhood with the highest Omicron case rates in the county. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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Big Ten move

UCLA quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson runs past USC linebacker Ralen Goforth for a touchdown.

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No ordinary orchard

Jose Ramirez reaches through a tree's branches to harvest a fruit.

Two images, side by side, of coffee growing on a branch and a hand pointing to a hand-painted list of fruit trees.

Jose Ramirez stands in the clearing of a fruit tree orchard.

He turned his weed-filled yard into a low-water jungle of fruit trees

Instead of a lawn, Jose Ramirez planted 250 trees, including avocados, limes, apples, mangoes and even coffee beans in his Boyle Heights yard.

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Catalina Island, CA - June 25: An aerial view of boats moored at Avalon Harbor and the Catalina Casino Friday, June 25, 2021 in Catalina Island, CA. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 6, 2022 - - LA Sanitation workers Miguel Torres, left, and Zac Ortiz, unload two stacks of in-home composting pails to be handed out to homeowners in Los Feliz on August 6, 2022. 2022 is the year that most residents of Los Angeles are being instructed to dump their kitchen waste into their green organic waste bin. Previously leftover food went into the regular/landfill (brown) trash can. This shift represents the biggest change in solid waste management in decades. The new program comes under a state law that requires cities and counties to change the way they handle leftover food and kitchen waste. The change is designed to help improve soil health and to reduce methane and other greenhouse gases that form when organic waste goes to a regular landfill. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 1993, file photo, Michael Jackson performs during the halftime show at the Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena, Calif. Jackson’s estate and IMAX are partnering to digitally remaster “Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D” into IMAX 3D. The partnership was announced Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018, which would have been the singer’s 60th birthday. It will be released in IMAX theaters across the U.S. for one week beginning on Sept. 21. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy, File)

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PUENTE HILLS, CA - JULY 13, 2022 - - Bryan Matsumoto, Program Manager with San Gabriel Valley and Transit-to-Trails, looks out over the site of the future Puente Hills Landfill Park from Nike Hill in Puente Hills on July 13, 2022. The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation gave a tour of what will be the first county park built within the San Gabriel Valley in 30 years. The Department is beginning the next phase of its master plan to convert a portion of the Puente Hills Landfill Park into a 142-acre regional park that will serve San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles County residents. The park will include multi-use trails, running loops, a bike skills park and area for horseback riding. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

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In this photo provided by the National Park Service, Mud Canyon Road is closed due to flash flooding in Death Valley, Calif., Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Heavy rainfall triggered flash flooding that closed several Death Valley National Park roads on Friday near the California-Nevada line. The National Weather Service reported that all park roads had been closed after 1.46 inches of rain fell quickly. (National Park Service/Death Valley National Park via AP)

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