In California, the Park fire has charred more than 307,000 acres, becoming the country’s largest this year. The Durkee fire in Oregon has covered at least 288,000 acres.
In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s declaration urging cities to clear homeless camps met its strongest opposition in Los Angeles.
He drew praise for his blues-inflected fretwork as his critically acclaimed band rode high, if briefly, during San Francisco’s Summer of Love.
One man is being held without bail after a witness saw him push a flaming vehicle down an embankment on Wednesday, the authorities said. The Park fire has burned more than 164,000 acres.
Let others fight the lines and the heat while you relax on a secluded beach or bike a trail through the mountains.
The large blazes prompted officials to issue evacuation orders and warnings about air quality.
Passed by voters in 2020, the ballot measure classifies drivers of ride-hailing apps as independent contractors rather than as employees.
The 1993 album “Doggystyle” went on to sell millions of copies around the world and solidified the career of Mr. Daniel, known as Joe Cool, as a hip-hop illustrator.
The directive from Gov. Gavin Newsom is the nation’s most sweeping response to a Supreme Court decision last month that gave local leaders greater authority to remove homeless campers.
A 29-year-old intruder who smashed a glass door to enter Mayor Karen Bass’s official residence pleaded no contest to a vandalism charge.
The California governor was working out on a treadmill when he got the news that President Biden was ending his campaign.
Nicole Allan profiled her in 2019. She explains why 2024 is Harris’s year.
A 1935 brick house in Atlanta, a Spanish-style home in West Hollywood and a two-bedroom house in a converted circa-1700 building in Charleston.
An estimated 15,000 gallons of sewage spilled into a creek this weekend, closing Venice and Dockweiler State Beaches, officials said. But on Tuesday morning, locals stuck to their beach routines.
General Motors said the self-driving division’s cars will run in Dallas, Houston and Phoenix after an accident last year. Human drivers will supervise the cars.
She faces a moment different from when she ran for president in the 2020 cycle.
Aunque Greg Abbott no creó la crisis migratoria, un análisis de The New York Times demostró que la extendió al cambiar la lenta difusión de migrantes desde la frontera hasta ciudades y pueblos de todo Estados Unidos y la centró en unos cuantos lugares.
Shoplifting and fentanyl use have tested the patience of California voters, who will decide in November whether to impose stricter laws that would lead to more incarceration.
No importa que el mercado esté lleno de variantes interesantes, innovadoras y altamente ‘instagrameables’. La versión de toda la vida sigue invicta.
The East Solano Plan, a proposal for a walkable urban community in a rural corner of the San Francisco Bay Area, stoked tension, fear and mistrust among some neighbors.
A 1927 Spanish-style house with a guest cottage in Los Angeles, an Arts and Crafts bungalow in Sonoma and a four-bedroom home with a guesthouse in Torrance.
La comunidad tecnológica, liderada por Sam Altman, de OpenAI, ha financiado programas que ofrecen a la gente dinero sin condiciones. Algunos dicen que es hora de ampliarlos.
Ms. TerBlanche played Gillian Andrassy, a Hungarian princess whose story line was beloved by fans.
Many who had been dissatisfied with their choices now face a whole new race — and a new set of questions.
Former President Donald J. Trump and the Texas governor are calling for a “secure border.” But actions by Mexico and President Biden have led to a period of relative calm.
Indian Americans are now the largest and most politically active group among Asian Americans. Among their recent milestones: Vice President Kamala Harris, two G.O.P. presidential candidates — and a possible second lady.
In two years, Texas has bused more than 119,000 people to Democrat-led cities, shifting both migration patterns and the debate over immigration. The list of cities keeps expanding.
They were also joined by Salma Hayek, Rumer Willis, Chloe Kim and Kim Petras at an event for Gucci at the Chateau Marmont.
At least 171 people have been sickened in an outbreak linked to Raw Farm milk. Experts say that number could be far higher.
The best of our readers’ love letters to California.
People plant grapevines in their backyards to get a rural aesthetic or for the love of wine itself, or even just for the science of it all.
There are only a few states where Covid is spreading more.
A first-time buyer put her savings to work in the expensive Bay Area housing market, using the local tenancy-in-common model to find something she could afford. Here’s where she landed.
San Diego serves up gorgeous beaches, arty neighborhoods and rich history, yet it still excels at being underrated.
The men had objected to working until safety concerns were addressed following an explosion at a port near San Francisco that claimed hundreds of lives.
Air temperature is just one measure of how heat affects cities and people. See how high surface temperatures, which bring additional risks, can get.
Vice President Kamala Harris’s credentials are already well-known. But Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio has deep connections to the Golden State, too.
In an era of extreme lamination and viral hybrid pastries, the original model remains an absolute marvel.
Anne Fundner blamed the death of her 15-year-old son, who took fentanyl-laced pills, on President Biden’s border policies.
The great ape was euthanized because his health had declined, staff members said.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that prevents educators from having to notify parents if their child asks to switch names or pronouns.
The social media and rocket companies are based in California, which the billionaire criticized for its recent transgender legislation.
The tech community, led by Sam Altman of OpenAI, has funded programs that give people unconditional cash. Some say it’s time to scale up.
During my time on the newsletter, I had a goal to report from all of the state’s 58 counties. Readers came through with plenty of ideas.
Jesse Katz’s true-crime narrative, “The Rent Collectors,” delivers a nuanced portrait of a community racked by poverty and violence and deprived of opportunities to get ahead.
NASA sent the song “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)” from a radio dish in California last week. It took 14 minutes to travel the 158 million miles.
The data that meters generate must be standardized and widely available to be useful. Right now it mostly isn’t.
Los candidatos demócratas consideran que el derecho al aborto podría resonar tanto entre los hombres latinos como entre las mujeres, porque en esencia tiene que ver con las libertades del individuo.
The former Denver Broncos running back said that he was handcuffed by the authorities on Saturday after he tapped a United Airlines flight attendant on the arm.
Las condiciones meteorológicas críticas y los rayos secos han causado múltiples incendios en los condados de Kern y San Luis Obispo el fin de semana, informaron las autoridades.
Our California-focused newsletter will feature a curated collection of New York Times articles about the state.
In Kern and San Luis Obispo counties, multiple wildfires have forced over 1,000 evacuations and briefly shut down Interstate 5 on Sunday night.
A two-bedroom bungalow with a guest cottage in Oakland, a townhouse in Novato and a renovated midcentury home in Los Angeles.
Replenishing sand is likely to become economically untenable and logistically impractical. But that doesn’t spell the end of beaches.
Northgate González Market, una de las mayores cadenas de supermercados mexicanos en Estados Unidos, busca replicar la familiaridad de los mercados latinos.
The West will get a small break from record-breaking heat, while much of the Midwest and the East Coast swelter into next week.
The Supreme Court decided last month that cities could cite homeless campers. Some say ‘clear them all.’ Others are ramping up outreach.
These candidates say the issue cannot be avoided in 2024, and dismiss the notion that focusing on men, who typically prioritize the economy, is a risk.
There isn’t much science to it.
The Biden administration set stringent new federal staffing rules. But for years, nursing homes have failed to meet the toughest standards set by states.
“A lightbulb went on”: By building a stylish little A.D.U. in front of the main house, he realized, several generations could live happily together.
With her gossamer frame and toothy smile, she was one of the biggest film stars of the 1970s.
Some 207,000 acres have burned so far this year, more than five times the average.
The state has had more than 3,500 wildfires this year, and the peak of the annual fire season has yet to arrive.
Violet Affleck, the eldest child of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, called for greater access to masks in a short speech during which she revealed her own “post-viral condition.”
The health care system in Houston, where more than a million customers lack power, was overwhelmed because some patients couldn’t be discharged amid a punishing heat wave.
Climate change is causing more fires to burn overnight, growing bigger, lasting longer and challenging the fire teams trying to control them.
Here are readers’ choices for some of the books published since 2000 that are most representative of the state.
In her most recent book, “The Backyard Bird Chronicles,” the best-selling author revels in a newfound preoccupation with birds — and drawing.
Across the country, copper and other valuable materials have been stolen from streetlights, statues and even gravesites, costing millions to repair.
Northgate González Market, one of the largest Mexican supermarket chains in the country, imagines the future of food as a family-friendly mercado.
An enormous overpass in Southern California is “more than just a bridge,” an official said.
The fire-resistant house she built in Napa, Calif., with the insurance money was “so different — and I like different.”
After thousands of sequoias were destroyed by extreme wildfires, tribes are conducting cultural burns.
The artist Cai Guo-Qiang has designed an epic fireworks event for the Los Angeles Coliseum this September.
Temperature records have been shattered from California and Nevada to North Carolina in the last few days, and relief is still days away, forecasters say.
In many places, a scorching Independence Day led into an even hotter weekend.
A midcentury-modern house in Los Angeles, a three-bedroom condominium in San Francisco and a hillside home in San Rafael.
The fire erupted on Friday near Zaca Lake, northeast of Los Olivos, Calif. As of early Monday, it had burned more than 20,000 acres and was 8 percent contained.
From Oregon to California to Arizona, several cities have seen scorching temperatures in recent days. And there is little relief in sight, forecasters say.
His “X” trilogy — which culminates with “MaXXXine” — obsesses over cinema, stardom and the industry itself.
La herramienta estaba destinada a proporcionar estrategias educativas individualizadas para estudiantes de Los Ángeles. Sin embargo, antes de poder hacerlo, la empresa que la creó colapsó.
The fire in Oroville forced 29,000 people to evacuate their homes earlier this week, but on Thursday officials said they felt “more confident” about containing the fire’s spread.
Pro-Trump professionals aren’t just talking about remaking Western civilization. Some are uprooting their lives to show that they mean it.
Residents moved to Mountain House, Calif., to escape soaring housing costs near the coast. Now, they just have to survive the searing summer heat.
The fire has burned more than 3,000 acres and threatened residents of Oroville, near the town of Paradise, which was destroyed by a wildfire in 2018.
Fireworks touch off blazes in California that cause millions of dollars in damage each year.
Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.
Several cities in the state will top 110 degrees over the next few days.
Cargo ships off California are reducing speeds as part of an unusual race designed to protect some very large local residents.
Glamping tents, decked-out tree houses, vintage R.V.s: A handful of new or updated U.S. accommodations puts you in the middle of nature without stinting on comfort.
This summer, escape the crowds at some of the nation’s most popular parks by heading into the backcountry on a day hike.
Across the state, the mercury is rising and may stay high for a week, if not longer.
The budget includes $12 million for reparations measures for the state’s Black residents.
Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.
A stone villa in Calistoga, a Spanish-style retreat in Santa Barbara and a four-bedroom house with a guest cottage in Los Angeles.
Direct cash payments are not imminent, but under the state’s new budget, the money could go toward other reparations-related proposals pending in the Legislature.
Readers discuss a column by Nicholas Kristof.
Fruit may be a staple. It can also be a status symbol prized for flavor, rarity and appearance.
Los Angeles lifted restrictions that had forced street vendors, mostly immigrants, on Hollywood Boulevard to dodge citations. Other challenges remain.
The reduction was a sign of progress for Mayor Karen Bass, who started an aggressive new program to move people off the streets in 2022.
The county is investing $5 million to partner with a nonprofit and wipe out $500 million in debt for residents. The program is expected to start later this year.
Stress, ovarian cancer, buoyancy disorders: Every pet has its troubles, and needs a good doctor who makes house calls.
The group of fires prompted evacuation orders as they burned more than 10,000 acres and threatened more than 900 homes around Fresno, after a lightning storm struck the region earlier in the week.
Democrats found President Biden’s performance disconcerting, while Republicans were in a jubilant mood. Swing voters were flummoxed.
The independent presidential candidate answered the same questions that the CNN hosts asked of former President Donald J. Trump and President Biden.
The rapper, who got into an altercation with a security guard after winning three Grammys, has completed community service.
Subjects include safety at work and in bars, and the cost of renting a home or buying a gun.
The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.
Readers submitted small ways that the pandemic shifted their thinking for the better, or introduced a new joy into their life.
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.
The pandemic was tough on city centers and cultural institutions. What does that mean for Los Angeles, whose downtown depends on the arts?
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.
Caring for seriously ill patients needing round-the-clock attention during the pandemic has added layers of commitment.
Hospitalizations and Covid cases have increased sharply in Los Angeles since Thanksgiving. But fear — and masks — are missing this time around.
Two lawsuits in California have pre-emptively challenged a new law that would punish doctors for misleading patients about Covid-19.
What seemed like a transitory step to avoid infection has become a major force driving the future direction of urban America.
The pandemic has been a time of great loss — and a time of great reflection. Perhaps no one understands that more than Rachel McKibbens.
A story of lies, family, America and what Covid revealed, as well as what it destroyed.
The wealthy California county just north of San Francisco has one of the nation’s highest Covid-19 vaccination rates after years of being known for parents who opposed shots for childhood diseases.
Weighing into the fierce national debate over Covid-19 prevention and treatments, the state would be the first to try a legal remedy for vaccine disinformation.
Though some small galleries are opening or expanding, the mega dealers have closed shop, a blow to an area with a vibrant artistic history.
Cubicles are largely empty in downtown San Francisco and Midtown Manhattan, but workers in America’s midsize and small cities are back to their commutes.
La suspensión de actividades humanas por la covid ha sido una oportunidad para entender mejor cómo afectamos a otras especies del planeta.
As the BA.5 subvariant drives a spike, many public health leaders aren’t cracking down
Covid precautions created a global slowdown in human activity — and an opportunity to learn more about the complex ways we affect other species.
Organizers said they expected more than 135,000 people at the convention, while the community level of Covid-19 in the county is high, according to the C.D.C.
As remote work persists and business deals are sealed online, many upscale restaurants that catered to the nation’s downtown office crowd are canceling the meal.