Stuart Leavenworth

California Enterprise Editor

Stuart Leavenworth is California enterprise editor, supervising reporters in the Bay Area, the Central Valley and Los Angeles. Since joining the Los Angeles Times in early 2019, he’s edited award-winning investigations of the U.S. nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands, abandoned oil wells in California, and more recently, projects on the die-off of gray whales and the lethal toll of heat waves in California. Leavenworth spent most of his career with McClatchy as a Sacramento Bee reporter and editor, Beijing bureau chief and national correspondent in Washington. A native of Fresno and graduate from UC Santa Cruz and Columbia University, Leavenworth is based in the Bay Area, where once worked as a chef apprentice, perfecting his knife skills – good training for an editor.

Latest From This Author

Climate & Environment

Women in environmental leadership. Making progress? Or hitting more ceilings?

A Q&A with Sacramento lobbyist Jennifer Fearing on the challenges women face in pursuing environmental change in California and beyond.
California

How Joan Didion’s Sacramento childhood shaped her life, and her take on California

On Thursday, Didion was quietly honored by some in her hometown, even though she left Sacramento long ago and long clung to her early memories.
Climate & Environment

Will this California drought result in another expansion of water-thirsty orchards?

Farmers doubled down on nut trees after the last drought. Will that change this time? Mark Arax, author of ‘The Dreamt Land,’ is skeptical.
Climate & Environment

Gray whales: What to know about our West Coast leviathans and their uncertain future

Gray whales have one of the longest migrations of any mammal and have proved themselves adaptable. But can they adjust to rapidly changing oceans?
Climate & Environment

Will drought and climate change feed more extremism in the West?

Former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell sees hope that the left and right will find some common ground in their love of the land.
Climate & Environment

Why California should be preparing for floods, even in the midst of drought

California gets enormous floods roughly once a decade, says geologist Jeff Mount. He says that now is the time to prepare.
California

UC Santa Cruz evacuates amid fires; students urged to shelter at the beach

An entire UC campus was ordered to flee from flames marching toward Santa Cruz as tinder and redwoods burn unimpeded after many dry years.
California

Wildfire damages much of Big Basin Redwoods State Park. Fate of big trees unknown

California’s oldest state park has suffered extensive damage from the C.Z.U. August Lightning Complex fires.
Vida y Estilo

Fui al médico para un examen de rutina durante la pandemia. Usted también debería

Deje de fingir. Visitar a su médico podría ser el contacto humano clave que ha estado necesitando todas estas semanas
Lifestyle

I went to the doctor for a routine checkup during the pandemic. You should, too

What is it like to get a health exam during the COVID-19 pandemic? It is different, but safe and vitally needed, given how many people are avoiding preventative care out of coronavirus fears.