RAP mogul Dr Dre assembles a billion dollars worth of hip hop talent as he gets his star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
RAP mogul Dr Dre assembles a billion dollars worth of hip hop talent as he gets his star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. The producer…
Will California finally elect a woman governor in 2026?
In 173 years as a state, California has had 40 governors. Democrats, Republicans, members of the Unionist and Know-Nothing parties. Merchants, lawyers, former mayors. A…
Rep. Katie Porter says she regrets calling the California Senate primary ‘rigged’
The outspoken Rep. Katie Porter is cleaning up after a controversial comment she made in the aftermath of her California Senate primary loss to fellow…
Biden touts high-speed rail between Southern California and Las Vegas
President Biden touted a high-speed rail project that will connect Las Vegas with Southern California, funded by billions of federal dollars, as he campaigned in…
Can the merger of two oil giants benefit the climate?
Welcome to Boiling Point! My name is Tony Briscoe. I’m the air quality and environmental health reporter at the L.A. Times. I’m filling in for…
Southland top 20 softball rankings
The high school softball top 20 rankings for The Times by CalHiSports.com. (Previous rank in parentheses) 1. (1) Garden Grove Pacifica 10-0 2. (3) Huntington…
Alan Sieroty dead: California ex-lawmaker helped create Coastal Commission
Former state Sen. Alan G. Sieroty, a Democrat from Beverly Hills who championed disability rights and efforts to protect California’s coast, died Saturday. He was…
California speeds plans to empty San Quentin’s death row
California is accelerating its efforts to empty San Quentin’s death row with plans to transfer the last 457 condemned men to other state prisons by…
In Central Valley, right-wing voter-fraud cospiracies take over
STOCKTON — As the polls closed in California on Super Tuesday, Jim Hicks stood watch in the parking lot of a community center while election…
Column: Trump has big plans for California if he wins second term
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is running against California — again. In his campaign to win a second term, the former president frequently excoriates the state as…
State Senate approves sweeping new gun control laws for California
Reporting from Sacramento — The state Senate on Thursday approved sweeping new restrictions on using guns in California in response to the December mass shooting by…
California behind on goals for reducing greenhouse gases
Wind turbines rise above an array of solar panels at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Tree Wind Farm and Solar Power Plant…
Opinion: Apocalypse now, but not in Santa Monica
In December, an atheistic, pro-choice, anti-gun, environmental activist — a.k.a. a resident of Santa Monica — asked me, “So how do you plan to ring…
Why Biden can’t get California gig worker law to go national
WASHINGTON — San Francisco’s city attorney last month reached the kind of settlement many gig workers have been seeking for years: An app-based hospitality company called…
How cryptocurrency executives helped decide the California Senate primary
In the days before the California Senate primary, political ads calling Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) a fake, an actor and a hypocrite inundated social media…
Newsom’s Proposition 1 is a shockingly close call in California
It’s been nine days since California’s primary election and we’re still not certain if Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ballot measure has passed. Proposition 1, the $6.4-billion…
Water is life. It’s also energy — whether you like dams or hate them
The rain and snow that have drenched California and much of the American West over the last few months — at least relative to some…
Chloe Sims distraught over sisters’ TikTok mocking their feud – as pal brands Demi and Frankie ‘gross and contrived’
CHLOE Sims has been left distraught over her sisters’ latest TikTok video, which appears to mock their recent bust-up. The heartbroken Towie star, 42, had…
Schiff’s Senate win signals change in California landscape
For a long time, life in California had certain rhythms. Winter snow in the Sierra. Springtime blooms in the desert. And come election season, a…
Column: Hubris, thy name is Gavin
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom should have learned this four years ago: You don’t try to sell voters on more government spending in a primary election.…