California

Residents in southern San Diego communities grapple with a surge in COVID-19 cases.

As coronavirus cases surge during the busy holiday shopping season, uncertainty and unease have set in on Main Streets.

This fall increase in coronavirus rates is moving beyond densely populated urban areas like Los Angeles into the far northern, rural reaches of the state.

Bloomberg Philanthropies gifts Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science its largest private donation of $7.7 million to invest in future Black doctors.

If you traveled during the holidays, you need to quarantine for 14 days when you return to California. Here’s what that means.

At Gleason Beach, a major highway realignment shows the complicated realities of dealing with climate change on the California coast.

Our homeless neighbors worry about staying well in a deadly pandemic. But they have at best a thin membrane of tent to protect them.

While the reasons to despair are numerous, there is also a hope fueled by plates of hot food and optimism served up by East Hollywood’s Heleo Leyva.

More than 8,000 SoCal Edison customers had their power shut off on Thanksgiving because of increased wildfire risk, and approximately 100,000 more remained at risk of having their lights turned out, officials said.

A governor sending himself to Washington is exactly the kind of naked political opportunism this country does not need right now.

The tobacco industry is turning in signatures for a referendum on the new law banning the sale of flavored tobacco sales effective Jan. 1.

Inmates, including some on death row, are receiving unemployment benefits in what D.A.s call ‘the most significant fraud on taxpayer funds in California history.’

Opposition in white, Latino and Asian communities and tepid support among younger Black Californians defeated a ballot measure to restore affirmative action.

President-elect Joe Biden has proposed a robust plan to jump start housing construction and add new housing subsidies in the U.S.

In major cities such as Los Angeles, rent is falling during the COVID-19 pandemic. But in suburban markets such as the Inland Empire, rent is rising fast.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti trumpeted his homeless program, A Bridge Home, as a means to shore up the supply of interim housing. Results have been mixed.

To measure the relationship between crime-free policies and shifting demographics, The Times analyzed U.S. Census data.

Nearly 2,000 communities in the U.S. and elsewhere encourage landlords to evict or exclude tenants who have had some interaction with law enforcement.