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Thunder and lightning filling the sky in downtown Los Angeles Thursday evening.

Lightning, fire, flash floods: California gripped by extreme weather

Severe lightning and thunderstorms spur shelter-in-place warnings, rockfalls and mudslides, and the threat of new ignitions to already massive wildfires.

Larry Elder dominates GOP field to replace Newsom in recall, poll finds
Record heat approaches Dust Bowl levels: How it is changing life in California

California legislators approve free menstrual products in public schools
California lawmakers send governor sweeping legislation to change unemployment system
I was 8 in New York during 9/11. How did it change me — and my generation?
After evacuating, they rang in the Jewish New Year in the middle of a wildfire
Election fraud conspiracies run rampant. Will they help or hurt push to recall Newsom?
Child coronavirus cases fall in L.A. County even as schools reopen, but concerns remain
Where the recall candidates stand — and sidestep — on healthcare policy

Recall and California Politics

SAN LEANDRO, CA - SEPTEMBER 08: Vice President Kamala Harris joins California Governor Gavin Newsroom at a rally against the upcoming gubernatorial recall election at the IBEW-NECA Joint Apprenticeship Training Center on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021 in San Leandro, CA. The recall election, which will be held on September 14, 2021, asks voters to respond two questions: whether Newsom, a Democrat, should be recalled from the Office of Governor, and who would succeed Newsom should he be recalled. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

New poll finds Newsom could easily beat recall thanks to motivated Democrats

California Politics: The recall electorate has changed
LAPD is investigating altercation involving Larry Elder at Venice homeless encampment
Column: About that fantastical rhetoric from Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris
Column: Barbara Boxer on abortion, being mugged and Dianne Feinstein

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New poll finds Newsom could easily beat recall thanks to motivated Democrats
L.A. school officials order sweeping student vaccine mandate, a first by a major district
California lawmakers send governor sweeping legislation to change unemployment system
I was 8 in New York during 9/11. How did it change me — and my generation?

In Depth

Gloria Allred with parent of Los Osos HS student who was videotaped illegally in girl’s locker room
Column One: What did California lose in the war on terror? More than any other state in the U.S.
A deadly month: The lives and stories of 22 Californians who died in one brutal month in the war on terror
California soldier’s story from the war on terror

Covid-19 Pandemic and Vaccines

SAN FERNANDO, CA - AUGUST 30, 2021: Tracy Jones, a licensed vocational nurse, places a bandage on the arm of Angel Macias, 12, a 7th grader at San Fernando Institute for Applied Media in San Fernando, after giving the student the first dose of the Pfiizer vaccine. A mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic was set up inside the gymnasium at San Fernando Middle School to inoculate LAUSD employees and students age 12 and older. (San Fernando Institute for Applied Media is located on the San Fernando Middle School campus) (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

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L.A. schools mandate student vaccines: What you need to know

L.A. schools mandates students vaccines: What you need to know

GLENDALE, CA - SEPTEMBER 01: Alex Awad, RN is working inside the ICU with a covid patient at Adventist Health Glendale on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021 in Glendale, CA. The patient is prone in a RotoProne. This machine gently rotates the patient to different angles to help the patient with respiratory complications. At the moment the hospital has 65 covid patients in their 515 bed hospital. Most of the covid patients are unvaccinated. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Younger unvaccinated Californians increasingly hospitalized with COVID-19

Protesters opposing vaccine mandates gather at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. Two vaccine-related bills failed to advance in the final week of the state legislative session. But the rally's organizers said they wanted to let lawmakers know many people opposed those bills in case they tried to bring them back next year. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

New vaccine mandates falter in California Legislature as protesters gather in Sacramento

SAN FERNANDO, CA - AUGUST 30, 2021: Angela Saveva, 21, a teacher's assistant at San Fernando Middle School in San Fernando, is thankful after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine from Tracy Jones, a licensed vocational nurse. A mobile COVID-19 vaccine clinic was set up inside the gymnasium at San Fernando Middle School to inoculate LAUSD employees and students age 12 and older. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

COVID-19 vaccinations lagging despite FDA’s full approval of Pfizer shots

A truck rolls through nut trees almost ready for harvest near Cantua Creek. The drought in the Central Valley is taking its toll of farmworkers with reduced hours and jobs evaporating like the limited water resources.

California’s coronavirus hot zone: Hospitals full, ambulances diverted, patients moved out

L.A. Unified to meet Thursday over COVID vaccine mandate for students; approval likely

California’s Central Valley overwhelmed by COVID-19 Delta surge

Urban California taming virus surge, but areas with low vaccination rates still in danger

Mu coronavirus variant recorded in 167 people in L.A. County

San Diego, CA - August 31: On Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 in San Diego, CA., at San Diego County Administration meeting, the audience responds during public comments supporting a no vote on Agenda Item 19. The board was voting on “Declaring health misinformation a public health crisis.” (Nelvin C. Cepeda / The San Diego Union-Tribune)

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San Diego County’s campaign to fight medical falsehoods gains momentum

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 16: Sixth grade teacher Kelsey McFadden shows students were to stand while entering their classroom at the Girls Academic Leadership Academy: Dr. Michelle King School for STEM students on the first day of in-class instruction on August 16. LAUSD officials welcomed students, teachers, principals, at various school sites across Los Angeles. For the younger students it will be their first time in a classroom. Dr. Michelle King School for STEM on Monday, Aug. 16, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times).

L.A. teachers union drops demand for student vaccine mandate, but wants strict quarantines

The Los Angeles Fire Department rapidly reversed a decision to put its social media accounts on hiatus and halt releasing records that show how long it takes rescuers to respond to calls for help.

L.A. firefighters, police officers dig in heels over vaccination mandate

FILE - In this Dec. 29, 2020, file photo, Memorial Hospital registered nurse Kari Carrell cares for a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit in Bakersfield, Calif. Hospitals in the heart of California's Central Valley are running out of beds in their intensive care units because of an influx of coronavirus patients. State officials announced Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, that hospitals in the 12-county San Joaquin Valley region have had fewer than 10% of staffed adults ICU beds for three consecutive days. (Alex Horvath/The Bakersfield Californian via AP, File)

ICU beds filling up in San Joaquin Valley, triggering hospital surge order

Education

All eligible LAUSD students would have to be vaccinated by January under board proposal
California community college financial aid scam triggers federal warning to other campuses
Coronavirus outbreaks in L.A. schools increase, some tied to athletic activities

Housing & Homelessness

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 11: Campers are parked along West Jefferson Blvd as Scott Culbertson, executive director of Friends of the Ballona Wetlands gives a tour of some of the destruction caused by homeless encampments that are encroaching on the Freshwater Marsh in Ballona Wetlands. Play Del Rey on Friday, June 11, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times).

Judge lets stand L.A. ban on homeless RV parking — because the city isn’t enforcing it

A law that prohibits homeless people from parking RVs overnight in some locations sidesteps a constitutional challenge after Los Angeles city officials tell a federal judge the law isn’t being enforced.

4 hospitalized after car slams into Koreatown homeless encampment
California prepares to spend billions on Medi-Cal services for homeless people and others
Editorial: No homeless people should be shooed off a sidewalk before they are offered housing
Buscaino wants L.A. voters to decide whether to bar homeless encampments in public spaces
U.S. appeals court says L.A. can’t seize and discard homeless people’s bulky property

Earthquakes

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Magnitude 3.8 earthquake hits near Ukiah, Calif.
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Earthquake: Magnitude 3.8 quake reported near Ukiah, Calif.
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How to prepare for a disaster if you live with a disability
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Leaning Millennium Tower in San Francisco sinking faster, retrofit halted

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LAPD arrests man suspected in a string of armed robberies along Melrose Avenue
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Archbishop Carl Bean, ‘beacon of light’ in LGBTQ church movement and AIDS activism, dies
Dixie fire charges north, forcing new evacuations as crews face ‘very concerning’ weather

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California records its hottest summer ever as climate change roils cities
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Caregiver indicted for allegedly filming himself as he sexually abused disabled kids
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A GOP governor would radically upend California. Here are 12 key issues at stake
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Stairs at Thousand Steps Beach to be closed for repairs until December
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San Quentin guard, 2 others charged with smuggling cellphones to death row inmates
Climate & Environment
Climate lessons from Grand Teton National Park, and the Jewish New Year
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‘There are negative associations’: A hotly debated election tool
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After a disastrous summer of fire, California braces for a potentially worse fall
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Newsom stakes his future on one simple argument: Fear a GOP governor
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Larry Elder calls himself ‘Sage From South Central.’ But his ties to Black L.A. are fraught
Podcasts
Podcast: Rep. Adam Schiff on 9/11, 1/6 and what’s next
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Column: Only election losers cry ‘voter fraud.’ Remember that during the California recall

Columnists

Gustavo Arellano
Wherever there’s a fight for California’s future, this Mexican nerd will be there
Sandy Banks
The forces that shape California and animate our lives
Steve Lopez
Insights from a California native
Frank Shyong
Culture and diaspora
George Skelton
An expert view on California government and politics
Erika D. Smith
People, politics and the quest for a more equitable California

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First the snow vanished, then the mudslides began: Mt. Shasta’s summer of pain
‘You keep Fluffy. We don’t want Fluffy.’ L.A. County animal shelters try a new approach
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Santa Monica vs. Malibu: A messy school district divorce over money and who gets the kids

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Business & Economics

Lawmakers winnow bills requiring fixes to California’s troubled unemployment agency
Appeals court blocks long-sought expansion of Squaw Valley ski resort
James Flanigan, longtime Times business columnist, dies at 85
California tightens COVID-19 rules for large indoor events
Wayne Hughes, self-storage titan and USC megadonor, dead at 87