There have been student protests and arrests, as well as controversy over the school’s decision to cancel the speech of its valedictorian.
Karen McDougal sold the rights to her story. Donald J. Trump and the publisher of The National Enquirer decided what would happen to it.
Mayor Fred Keely likened trying to shore up the erosion-threatened West Cliff Drive to changing a tire while the car is still moving.
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, who play three entangled tennis pros, and their director, Luca Guadagnino, talk about ambition, jealousy and the “erotic amusement” of their new movie.
SFMOMA explores the galaxy of visual and technological design that has long revolved around the music we love.
Readers discuss a column by Nicholas Kristof. Also: Donald Trump, “unprecedented”; tech in school; how sorrow changes us; California’s property taxes.
Our playlist reflects the breadth and diversity of the Golden State.
El virus H5N1 ya ha matado a decenas de miles de mamíferos marinos y se ha infiltrado por primera vez en el ganado de EE. UU. ¿Cuál es el riesgo para los seres humanos? Los científicos trabajan con rapidez para encontrar respuestas.
The first-quarter results are likely to fuel worries that competitors will continue grabbing a bigger slice of a market dealing with slowing electric car sales.
A challenge to a small Oregon city’s law that imposes fines on homeless people for sleeping outdoors could have big implications for the Golden State.
Andreas Bechtolsheim, the first investor in Google, has an estimated $16 billion fortune. He recently settled charges that he engaged in insider trading for a profit of $415,726.
In “The Whole Staggering Mystery,” Sylvia Brownrigg explores her mysterious parent’s past, and finds more than she bargained for.
Creative approaches to landscaping and a post-pandemic interest in outdoor activities are driving institutions to make better use of their grounds.
In a city still struggling to recover from the pandemic, Mayor London Breed hopes giant pandas will lift the spirits — and the economy — of San Francisco.
The town threw a party for the opening of a $1.7 million public restroom.
A three-bedroom home in La Jolla, a renovated retreat in Palm Springs and an Edwardian house in San Francisco.
Additional routes in popular parks now require reservations, the annual pass gets a big change, Juneteenth is now a new free entrance day and more changes for 2024.
Matthew Kenney, one of the most famous names in plant-based cuisine, has left a trail of burned investors, bounced paychecks and graphic text messages.
H5N1, an avian flu virus, has killed tens of thousands of marine mammals, and infiltrated American livestock for the first time. Scientists are working quickly to assess how it is evolving and how much of a risk it poses to humans.
The Getty House was broken into early Sunday through a smashed window, the police said. Mayor Karen Bass said she and her family were safe.
The ad portrays a woman trying to leave the state to have an abortion. The Campaign for Democracy, a political action committee started by Mr. Newsom, the California governor, created it.
After he made a fortune selling prescription drugs and providing medical information online, he and his wife became leading breeders of thoroughbred horses.
The 33-inch model surfaced on eBay after disappearing around 1979. An auction house is giving it to the son of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek.”
The son of the former Supreme says in court papers that the man who sought to help his mother after she became incapacitated also took advantage of her financially.
Don Tamaki was integral to getting redress for Japanese Americans. He says serving on a California task force transformed his view on racism in America.
The authorities said the cable had been cut intentionally, halting check-in services for at least two major airlines for several hours.
Law enforcement agencies had been on the lookout for a serial burglar who was posing as a priest and called himself Father Martin, the sheriff’s office in Riverside, Calif., said.
For years, Harry and his wife, Meghan, have considered California home. This week, he updated his residency in a corporate filing.
Disney plans to spend at least $1.9 billion to develop and reimagine the park over the next decade.
After decades in Arizona, a couple relocated to the San Francisco Peninsula, where they hoped to find a single-level home with no stairs and plenty of room to host family.
In her 60s, she set off on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of anthropological research: bikers, and in particular, female bikers.
Readers submitted small ways that the pandemic shifted their thinking for the better, or introduced a new joy into their life.
Mocktail trails, olive oil tours and elevated dining experiences are among the many ways the renowned wine-producing areas of Sonoma, Mendoza and Tuscany are appealing to sober or sober-curious travelers.
The clinic, which provided abortion, birth control and other health services in Costa Mesa, Calif., was the target of a “brazen attack” in 2022, a prosecutor said.
The Republican senator from Arkansas said citizens should “take matters into your own hands” against demonstrators who have stepped up their civil disobedience to protest Israel’s offensive in Gaza.
Probably because of a griffin-riding warrior queen.
A laid-back shop in Los Angeles is a semi-secret spot for celebrities and costume designers.
About 600 inmates housed at the troubled facility in the San Francisco Bay Area will be transferred to other federal institutions.
The music festival had plenty of memorable fashion. Most (but not all) of it was ostentatious.
A professed archaeologist of the industry, he opened his own stores and partnered with other experts and vendors in the nascent comics business.
Along with the departure of two senior executives, the cuts added to signs of turmoil at the electric car company.
“Harold and Maude,” “The Grapes of Wrath” and more.
A three-bedroom house in Calistoga, a Cape Cod-style home in Long Beach and a 1927 cottage in Mill Valley.
La capital de Baja California Sur ha mantenido su compromiso con la conservación del medioambiente, pero también se ha convertido en la sede de restaurantes y hoteles interesantes.
A freshman congressman is demanding answers from the fashion house Loro Piana, which sources wool from his native Peru and faces accusations of exploiting workers there.
Prosecutors said Keith Berman falsely claimed he had invented a blood test that could detect Covid-19 in 15 seconds. His lawyer said he had put “genuine effort” into developing such a test.
Pro-Palestinian supporters disrupted a dinner for law students. There was a tussle over the microphone and conflicting claims of harm.
The murder trial of O.J. Simpson was a defining part of a turbulent era in Los Angeles.
Plus, A.I. lands on Wall Street.
Some, like Marcia Clark and Mark Fuhrman, gained fame in other arenas. Others lived quieter lives.
In Los Angeles, the restaurant Chain taps into a feverish nostalgia for burgers and pizza from the 20th century.
I always thought of the Simpson case as a great American tragedy, with its echoes of “Othello.”
From the car chase to the verdict, the murder case became an inextricable part of Los Angeles history in the 1990s, and Angelenos to this day still ponder what happened.
The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument are expected to grow by a combined total of about 130,000 acres.
Saltó a la fama en el campo de fútbol americano y amasó fortunas en el cine. Pero el juicio en el que se le acusó de asesinar a su exesposa y a uno de sus amigos lo cambió todo.
The museum was criticized earlier for failing to acknowledge the contributions of the Jewish pioneers who helped establish the American film studio system.
The appointment comes as Berkeley and college campuses across the country are facing turmoil over free speech, racial and political diversity, and affordability.
The campsite, run by a 22-year-old volunteer, became a first stop for people seeking food, water and warmth as they waited to be apprehended by border authorities.
What Frank Auerbach did for Camden Town, Monet did for Paris and De Chirico did for piazzas all over Italy, Diamond did for New York’s masonry.
If health care is interpreted in the truest sense of caring for people’s health, it must extend well beyond the boundaries of hospitals and clinics.
In recent months, a handful of exclusive credit card lounges have opened in airports in the United States. More are coming this year.
Melina Abdullah, a racial justice activist in Los Angeles and professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, joins the independent presidential ticket.
Visitors make Hollywood Boulevard one of their first stops in Los Angeles. But when they arrive, the reality may not match the fantasy.
Mediante inteligencia artificial, estudiantes de secundaria y bachillerato han fabricado y compartido imágenes explícitas de compañeras de clase.
The request by NewJeans is the latest effort by the K-pop industry in its struggle to stem rumors on platforms based outside South Korea.
The Ranch, which specializes in long hikes, communal vegan meals and snacks of precisely six almonds, is opening an outpost in the Hudson Valley.
He used his church, First African Methodist Episcopal, as a base to address the social ills that confronted the city’s Black population.
The pandemic was tough on city centers and cultural institutions. What does that mean for Los Angeles, whose downtown depends on the arts?
Wildflowers are beginning to spring to life across the state after another wet winter.
A Tesla driver’s family had sought damages for the 2018 crash, which happened while the carmaker’s driver-assistance software was in use.
Ms. Tang, who had been running the news organization on an interim basis since January, takes charge at a turbulent time for the publication.
Californians in the Bay Area and in Southern California braced for a favorable view of the partial eclipse as clouds dissipated on Monday morning.
Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures.
The popularity of the Cornish pasty, a meat pie eaten by hand like a sandwich, is a legacy of the gold rush.
A 1929 Spanish-style house in Riverside, a two-bedroom condominium in Pasadena and a midcentury ranch house in Long Beach.
Last July, a recently divorced writer who had found solace in hiking took on a towering challenge: Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states.
She wrote about politics and the patriarchy as a left-wing writer, then alienated her compatriots with exposés critical of the Black Panthers and the environmental movement.
Democrats are targeting incumbent Republicans in a number of districts President Biden won in 2020 — but the general rule is, as goes the presidential race, so go House races.
The Major League Baseball team says it will move to the capital region from Oakland for at least three years.
Un ensayo en California está probando una máquina diseñada para reflejar la luz solar en el espacio con la finalidad de disminuir temporalmente las temperaturas del planeta.
The contest has been dominated by Mayor London Breed and her moderate challengers. Supervisor Aaron Peskin seeks to change that.
Never before has California’s primary system resulted in a three-way runoff for a congressional seat.
Around Camelback Ranch, the Dodgers’ spring training home in Phoenix, fans of all backgrounds were wearing Ohtani jerseys and many spoke Japanese and Spanish.
Silicon Valley was all about disruption. Turns out, that’s not all workers need.
Officials are advising people to leave one of the nation’s most scenic coastal stretches before rain washes away more of Highway 1.
It’s been a rainy winter, but that won’t necessarily mean fewer wildfires.
New hotels and destination-worthy restaurants now complement the ever-appealing outdoors surrounding La Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur.
A rush of precipitation lifted the state to its second straight year with above-average snowfall, though Gov. Gavin Newsom warned residents not to grow used to it.
A trial in California is testing a machine designed to reflect sunlight back into space. “All my colleagues hope that we never use these things,” one researcher said.
A protest at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco led to the resignation of its leader and to a monthlong closure of its galleries.
Savannah Graziano, 15, was fatally shot a day after an Amber Alert was issued for her in September 2022. Newly released video and recordings show that she was killed by deputies.
Contemporary art with a hillside winery in Napa, a Roman villa-inspired museum in Pacific Palisades and more.
Un legislador de San Francisco propone una ley para que los trabajadores de California tengan el derecho de rechazar las llamadas de trabajo fuera del horario laboral.
Unos 2000 automovilistas, en su mayoría turistas, quedaron atrapados en la zona el sábado por la noche después de que un tramo de la carretera cayó al océano. No se registraron heridos.
They now must be paid at least $20 an hour, near the top of what minimum-wage earners make anywhere in the country.
Plus, fast food workers get a raise.
A 1911 bungalow with a guesthouse in Los Angeles, a French Normandy-style home in Alameda and a four-bedroom retreat in Ukiah.
About 2,000 motorists, mostly tourists, were stuck in the area on Saturday night after a section of Highway 1 fell into the ocean. No injuries were reported.
For a Los Angeles community contending with gentrification in its historic center and an aging population of cultural standard-bearers, Ohtani’s accession with the Dodgers has been galvanizing.
Los Angeles recorded two to four inches of rain as of Sunday morning. Parts of Santa Barbara County got more than six inches of rain, the National Weather Service said.
To find the birds, you have to know them.
Los recién llegados, entre ellos niños sin acompañantes adultos, esperan durante horas y días en zonas donde la falta de techo, alimentos e infraestructura sanitaria ha detonado problemas de salud pública.
The department has a division that often directs inquiries into sex trafficking allegations, like those cited in recent lawsuits against Mr. Combs.
A San Francisco lawmaker wants California to give workers the right to brush off business calls after hours.
Tras más de un año del inicio de su mandato, la alcaldesa Karen Bass ha despejado campamentos y trasladado a miles de personas a moteles. No se sabe con certeza qué sucederá a continuación.
His biographies of Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti came to overshadow his own work. “I would love an interview,” he once said, “where Bukowski is not mentioned.”
Serra spattered a pot of molten lead against the base of a wall in Jasper Johns’s home. Then he let it harden. The result looked nothing like a traditional sculpture.
Autoridades federales ejecutaron allanamientos en dos casas del magnate del hip-hop, quien se enfrenta a varias demandas civiles que lo acusan de violación y agresión sexual.
Readers have been writing in about some of their favorite things about California, including the biodiversity and the sense of community.
The town of Bombay Beach, Calif., offers its residents a tight-knit community in the midst of catastrophe.
The deep pockets of the tech investor Garry Tan are valued by his allies, but his pugnacious online habits are creating plenty of enemies in the city he says he wants to save.
Los Angeles finally got a close look at baseball’s megastar on Thursday, as a gambling situation involving his former interpreter took a back seat to opening day.
Experts have long pondered the question of improving protections, and several bridges have undergone adjustments. But the size of today’s vessels leads to immense challenges.
A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether the government must provide shelter, food and medical care to minors while they await processing.
Before the season officially ends on Sunday, another storm is headed for the California coast.
The parents were worried about crime, but the university said that the move raised concerns about training and experience, and that security was better left to its own police force.
The nation’s highest state minimum wage for fast-food workers takes effect on Monday. Owners and employees are sizing up the potential impact.
A new exhibition tells the dealer’s story of how two rising stars, Larry Gagosian and Jean-Michel Basquiat, worked together in Los Angeles in the ’80s.
The decision was only the latest effort by bar officials to seek accountability against a group of lawyers who sought to help President Donald J. Trump stay in office despite his election loss.
Federal agents executed search warrants at his homes in Los Angeles and Miami Beach, and he faces several civil lawsuits accusing him of rape and sexual assault.
An expansion designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro will add 55,000 square feet to an institution that has become a popular Los Angeles destination.
Musk ayudó a crear la industria china de vehículos eléctricos. Pero ahora se enfrenta a desafíos allí, así como al escrutinio en Occidente por su dependencia al país.
The decision, which came after a legal challenge, throws into question the fate of dozens of similar measures across the United States.
For half a century, James Goldstein has been renovating a house by John Lautner. It’s a spectacular legacy. But like everything about Goldstein, it’s complicated.
A conversation with the Times reporter who wrote about Mayor Karen Bass’s flagship program to solve homelessness.
Mr. Musk helped create China’s electric vehicle industry. But he is now facing challenges there as well as scrutiny in the West over his reliance on the country.
Tesla and China built a symbiotic relationship, with credits, workers and parts that made Mr. Musk ultrarich. Now, his reliance on the country may give Beijing leverage.
The urban “doom loop” seems to have come to a halt.
Una demanda acusó al estado de no proporcionar una educación equitativa a estudiantes de bajos ingresos, negros e hispanos durante la pandemia.
A lawsuit accused the state of failing to provide an equal education to lower-income, Black and Hispanic students during the pandemic.
Two of the most cautious states have bypassed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by letting students and workers who have the virus but are asymptomatic avoid isolation.
The country is on track for a record drop in homicides, and many other categories of crime are also in decline, according to the F.B.I.
From the revamped Transamerica Pyramid to a small public radio station broadcasting from a former copy shop, the street offers hope for recovery in the city.
Since Senator Dianne Feinstein died in September, her admirers have looked for ways to honor her legacy.
A new study found that California schools got positive results from a targeted investment in the science of reading — even with the challenges of pandemic recovery.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference comes at a pivotal moment for the city as it struggles to rebound from the pandemic.
Many restaurants are fundamentally changing how they do business after the pandemic.
As they struggle to recover after the pandemic, regional theaters are staging fewer shows, giving fewer performances, laying off staff and, in some cases, closing.
In California, Bay Area Rapid Transit has suffered so much that it needs a state bailout — and possibly a new business model.
Park Hotels & Resorts said it stopped making payments on a $725 million loan tied to two prominent hotels in a city hit hard by pandemic-related changes.
Tech workers have stayed home, and ongoing social problems downtown are forcing civic and business leaders to confront harsh realities about the city’s pandemic recovery.
As the nation’s schools ‘return to normal,’ teachers in an L.A. neighborhood hit hard by Covid are left to manage their students’ grief — and their own.
As tech companies cut costs and move to remote work, their left-behind office furniture has become part of a booming trade.
Facing an existential crisis over empty space, owners are trying to fill malls with residences, building on the live-work-play model sought by young adults.
San Francisco has been held up as an economic success story, but the heart of the city is yet to recover from the pandemic.
California’s law sought to punish doctors who give patients false information about Covid-19.
Also, another mass shooting in California and New Zealand’s next leader.
Also, New Zealand’s next leader and a Lunar New Year travel surge in China.