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We killed off California’s grizzly bears over a century ago. Can we resurrect them?

California was once home to about 10,000 grizzly bears. We have since exterminated the bear even though it is still a symbol of the Golden State. Can we bring them back?

Timber Fire on August 10, 2026. The Timber Fire has grown to 1,723 acres in Monterey County and remains 5% contained Monday, as evacuation orders and warnings remain in effect for areas of Big Sur.

Relentless cycle of disaster has Big Sur in crisis again: ‘You really have to fight to be here’

Claremont, CA 2026 - April 28: Steve Hilton, left, speaks tic Xavier Becerra during a break in a gubernatorial debate sponsored by CBS Television Stations, in partnership with Asian Pacific American Public Affairs (APAPA), at Pomona College on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 in Claremont, CA. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)

Becerra holds strong lead over Hilton in race for California governor, new poll shows

LOS ANGELES CALIF APRIL 20, 2026 -- Members of the media take photos of a booking poster of singer David Anthony Burke, or D4vd, who was arrested last week in connection with the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was found dismembered in the trunk of his Tesla at a Hollywood tow yard on Monday, April 20, 2026. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
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Body bags, chainsaws, a ‘burn cage’: D4vd case shows extremes of online shopping

ARCHIVO - La torre de agua de Paramount Pictures se ve en Los Ángeles, el 18 de diciembre de 2025, con el letrero de Hollywood a lo lejos. (Foto AP/Jae C. Hong, archivo)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens during a meeting to sign an executive order about vaccines, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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More and more wealthy Californians are seeking ‘golden visa’ residency outside the U.S.

An adult male was attacked unprovoked while walking past Bruce, who was tied to a pole outside CVS.

California dog named Bruce, accused of four attacks, is euthanized after months of court battles

Fans wait in line for hours hoping to get a Dodgers Hello Kitty blind item box

L.A. reaches deal on cost recovery for 2028 Olympics, amid warnings about financial risk

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Firefighters continue to work on the fire at Lineage storage facility in Boyle Heights on Thursday, June 25, 2026.

State lawmakers seek tougher rules for industrial facilities after Boyle Heights fire

Two state lawmakers want cold storage companies to take care of local communities after industrial disasters.

California gubernatorial candidates Steve Hilton, left, and Xavier Becerra.

Becerra, Hilton offer promises on AI, gas prices, healthcare — and starkly contrasting views

Redding, CA - February 25: Current County Clerk & Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis stands in the election counting area on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026 in Redding, CA. Curtis installed a controversial election observer area and changed the way a lot of operations are handled at the elections office. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Court halts Shasta County measure that eliminates most mail-in voting — for now

Los Angeles, California - August 06, 2026: Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman speaks at a press conference about hate crimes at the Hall of Justice on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. Hate crimes in Los Angeles are going down in comparison to 2025. (Arwen Clemans/Los Angeles Times)
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MARCH 05, 2023 - Senator Scott Wiener stands for a photo in the Castro district of San Francisco, California on March 05, 2023. (Josh Edelson/For The Times)

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INCLINE VILLAGE, NEVADA, Aug. 6, 2026-- . Several large trees at Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village, Nevada were recently poisoned. In this photo taken August 6, 2026, several poisoned trees are cordoned off while workers remove contaminated soil at Burnt Cedar Beach in Incline Village, Nevada. (Scott Sady / For The Times)
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A Lake Tahoe murder mystery: Who is poisoning towering pine trees?

Someone has, on multiple occasions, slipped into a residents-only beach in Incline Village, drilled holes in the roots of trees and poured a chemical inside, killing at least 10 pines, some over a century old.

20030209 (LA/B5,SF/B5) –– DEVASTATION: The St. Francis Dam after it collapsed and sent a 10–story wall of water through San Francisquito Canyon. 20030209 (VN/B3) –– AFTER: The dam after it collapsed in 1928, sending a 10–foot wall of water roaring through San Francisquito Canyon. 00–10–14(Valley) –– (2 Photos) The St. Francis Dam, above left, was completed in 1926 and held water brought south in the L.A. Aqueduct. Above right, the dam shortly after it collapsed in 1928, killing more than 450 people. 98–03–08 (Ventura) –– Little was left after the St. Francis Damcollapsed, sendingbillions of gallons of water down San Francisquito Canyon. FILE PHOTO This is all that was left of the St. Francis dam in San Francisquito canyon after it collapsed in 1928.
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William Mulholland brought water to L.A. He failed to stop a disastrous flood

FILE - Escorted by sheriff's deputies, Robert Blake is surrounded by a crowd of photographers and reporters as he gets into his attorney's car after his release from jail to await his murder trial, in downtown Los Angeles, March 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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He played an iconic cop on TV. Did Robert Blake get away with murder?

San Bernardino, CA, - June 22, 2026: Traffic moves above the San Andreas Fault in the Cajon Pass on Monday, June 22, 2026 in San Bernardino, CA. Key sections of California's two longest faults, the San Andreas and the San Jacinto, are at their highest level of tectonic strain over the past 1,000 years, a new study suggests, leaving them ripe to rupture in a major earthquake. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)
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The San Andreas fault has gone ominously silent. Scientists fear when it finally snaps

Qinyi Luo, 30, places a ring on the hand of Daniel Tran, 29, of Santa Clara, during their marriage ceremony at San Francisco City Hall on June 26, 2026. (Sarahbeth Maney / For The Times)
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The fierce competition to get married at California’s most popular public buildings

Smog: L.A.’s Greatest Victory

Los Angeles, California, July 15, 1953 - SMOG TEST - Janet E. Dickinson operates an apparatus where gases are frozen to solid or liquid state for later analysis in a laboratory. The air pollution checkup of auto exhaust fumes and gas vapors were performed on the City Hall lawn in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., on July 15, 1953. Photo Credit: Frank Q. Brown / Los Angeles Times

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The inspiring, infuriating, even comic tale of how we defeated L.A.’s smog and why we may have to again

L.A. has been tested time and time again. Southern California’s battle with smog shows we can overcome big obstacles.

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Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose of the Japanese propaganda "Zero Hour" broadcasts which were beamed to American troops in the Pacific during the war, seems in a pensive mood as she looks through the bars of her cell in Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 28, 1945. Born in Los Angeles, 29 years ago to Japanese parents, she is awaiting trial for treason against the United States. (AP Photo)

This L.A. woman was jailed as a WWII traitor. How a pair of perjuries ensnared ‘Tokyo Rose’

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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Toting a tambourine, she built L.A.’s first megachurch. Then she suddenly disappeared

MONTEREY PARK-CA-DECEMBER 9, 2013: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca faces the media during a news conference in response to an announcement of the F.B.I. arrests of 17 sworn members of the Sheriff's Department in connetion with a federal probe into activities at county jails at the Department Headquarters in Monterey Park on Monday, December 9, 2013. (Christina House / For The Times)

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Marvin Gaye, American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and musician photographed in Los Angeles.

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FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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The assassination of RFK: An icon of hope, a hotel pantry and an ‘angry nobody’

Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

Homicidal cousins and the Hillside Stranglers case: A trial that nearly did not happen

Elmer Pratt enroute to afternoon session in court at Hall of Justice.

‘Deceit, dishonesty, betrayal’: The wrongful conviction that haunted Johnnie Cochran

1990-06-22 - 'Holy Terror 'Manson tunnel LAPD crime scene photo. The railroad tunnel in which Ronald Baker was found had spooky graffiti and a dark mystique, the kind of place Valley kids dared each other to walk through at night. People called it the Manson Tunnel-the cult leader and his disciples had lived nearby at the Spahn Movie Ranch-and someone had spray-painted HOLY TERROR over the entrance.
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Detectives investigating UCLA student’s murder uncovered a stunningly personal betrayal

(Original Caption) Convicted spy Christopher Boyce is led by federal marshals at Burbank airport upon his arrival from Springfield, Massachusetts, for arraignment on charges related to his escape from Lompoc federal prison in January 1980.

How a pair of Palos Verdes altar boys grew up to be Soviet spies

Boster, Mark -- - LOS ANGELES,CA.,JUNE 9, 2009: Veteran LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus,49, appears at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles for her arraignment on murder charges June 9, 2009. Lazarus is charged with the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times)

It took LAPD 23 years to identify one of their own as the culprit in this fatal love triangle

Los Angeles, CA - May 29, 1986 : Richard W. Miller (center) with his defense attorney (right) watch as the jury arrives to the Little League Park location as part of the espionage retrial. The park is located at Ohio Ave, and Sepulveda Blvd. May of 1986. ( Al Seib / Los Angeles Times )

Charged with selling state secrets to the Soviets, a bumbling FBI agent had a novel defense

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EL SEGUNDO-CA-DECEMBER 7, 2023: Magic Johnson is photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on December 7, 2023. DO NOT PUBLISH. FOR THE POWER LIST PROJECT ONLY. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
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CALABASAS, CA - JAN 15: Kris Jenner is photographed for the LA Powerless in Calabasas, CA on January 15, 2024. (Evan Mulling / For The Times)
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