The downtown mall was long considered a thriving retail anchor, while the suburban-style one was an afterthought. They had a surprising role reversal.
An appellate panel upheld a finding that federal agents appeared to rely exclusively on race and other factors, such as speaking Spanish, in making arrests.
As governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger championed the state’s nonpartisan redistricting system. Now, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to pause it to help Democrats.
It’s been so cold in San Francisco, painters on the Golden Gate Bridge had to break out heaters.
The asking price for the couple’s property is around $30 million, while other celebrities, like Adam Levine and Tony Parker, also have put their homes up for sale.
El movimiento contra el ICE en Los Ángeles —que está empezando a arraigarse en todo el país— demuestra el paso de la protesta simbólica a la acción directa.
Angela Lin, 29, was a software engineer at Google who loved to spend time outdoors.
Until she decided not to run, former Vice President Kamala Harris had loomed over the race as a likely favorite. Now, a host of hopefuls are jockeying for advantage.
A.I. technologists are approaching the job market as if they were Steph Curry or LeBron James, seeking advice from their entourages and playing hardball with the highest bidders.
Operating as a collective, they say, reduces the pressures and offers more opportunities to grow while maintaining the integrity of each brand.
Whether it’s bubbling up from a hot spring or rushing off a glacier, water can help relax muscles and soothe stress. Here are some places to harness that healing power.
Una aliada de Harris afirma que “todas las opciones están sobre la mesa”, pero advierte que no hay que darle demasiada importancia a la decisión de la ex vicepresidenta de no presentarse a las elecciones a gobernadora de California.
The move continues a scaling back of President Trump’s military deployment in Southern California that began on June 7.
A Harris ally says “all options are on the table” but cautions against reading too much into the former vice president’s choice to skip the California governor race.
Kamala Harris, the former vice president, announced that she has decided not to run for California’s top office.
The pilot was removed from the cockpit of a plane after it landed in San Francisco on Saturday night. A woman was also charged in a related felony complaint.
Plus, how people are helping discover new species with their phones.
The movement against ICE in Los Angeles — one that is starting to take root across the country — demonstrates a shift from symbolic protest to direct action.
Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active regions that encircle the Pacific Ocean.
The new administration had already courted controversy in both cases. Now the Justice Department seeks to end them entirely.
The man who shot and killed four people in Manhattan had legally purchased a firearm in Nevada, where he lived, despite a record of mental health problems.
A similar approach in New Jersey has led to cancellations of court proceedings, as judges question whether the president’s designee for U.S. Attorney has any authority.
A lawsuit against David Geffen mentions a website where hypergamy — dating above your station — is celebrated. But the word carries darker intonations.
At Taquería Frontera, the art of Tijuana-style tacos is on full display.
The lawsuit argues that the federal government’s demand was an attempt to obtain sensitive personal information for use outside the food stamp program.
She put millions from her foundation into projects in California, like a performing arts center in Beverly Hills and a wildlife crossing over the busy 101 freeway.
The pilot was led away while the crew and passengers remained on board, according to eyewitness reports.
A midcentury modern in Los Angeles, a house with ocean views in Bolinas and a split-level in Santa Cruz
The plane has been located, the U.S. Coast Guard said, and two people have been found unresponsive. A search for the third person is continuing.
Widely admired if long underrecognized for his collage-based art, he died only days after the closing of his first retrospective at a major museum, in his native Pittsburgh.
His company, the Chiron Corporation, contributed important scientific discoveries toward treatments for H.I.V., hepatitis B, diabetes and more.
“The Opinions” round table discusses President Trump’s immigration policies and the emerging resistance to it.
The classical pianist Hunter Noack has embarked on an unusual journey, to take his music to natural landscapes well beyond the concert halls.
The sudden maneuver was made during a Friday flight out of California after two collision safety alerts sounded in the cockpit, causing the pilots to take evasive action, the airline said.
Las aguas residuales vertidas en el río que pasa por México y llega a California desbordan con frecuencia las plantas de tratamiento de ambos países. El problema ha empeorado en los últimos años.
The agreement addresses a longstanding problem that has sickened people in both countries.
After four years leading the Museum of Contemporary Art, Johanna Burton will next head the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia.
Science, a top research journal, said there was no evidence of misconduct by researchers whose finding attracted heavy attention and scrutiny in social media’s early days.
The law violates the Second Amendment, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision.
The brokerage, which has already handled transactions with digital payment in lieu of cash, is the first major U.S. firm to create a dedicated team for such deals.
One in five voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024 was a person of color. Why?
An analysis released Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice shows that the majority of crimes the council tracks are continuing to decrease in 42 U.S. cities.
California officials have not yet determined whether Southern California Edison caused the fire, which killed 17 people and destroyed thousands of properties.
With books and workshops, she helped others deal with the stress caused by climate change, inspiring them to take action and not be paralyzed by despair.
Theft is feared as beloved mascots vanish from the Ryde Hotel in Walnut Grove.
Tired of the usual summer beach vacation? Try glamping near a rushing river, or luxuriating at a 300-year-old rural inn.
More than six months after the fires, officials determined that another person had died in Altadena.
Two prominent medical centers in California recently announced they would stop treatments, citing pressure from the Trump administration.
His New Albion Brewing Company, founded in 1976, was considered the first microbrewery. It set the model for thousands more to come.
Not all Californians took it well.
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Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong did not share details about the planned offering. The newspaper has not been profitable under him, and his job cuts have angered staff.
A midcentury modern in Thousand Oaks, a contemporary home in Carmel Valley and a French Normandy Revival in Oakland
The artist’s first museum tour luxuriates in the spacious and sophisticated folk-modernism he left behind, even as it unevenly canonizes a painter of the millennial era.
A man was arrested in connection with the crash on suspicion of arson, officials said. No injuries were reported.
Los Angeles’s mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a “reign of terror.” ICE’s director said agents could wear masks to “keep them and their families safe.”
Garcia and the music he wrote aimed for something beyond politics, something deeper.
Known as the Toupee Queen online, Emily Cheney is helping change the way people talk about men’s hair loss.
Officials were looking into whether the explosion, which killed three sheriff’s deputies, was caused by devices seized from a condo in Santa Monica a day before the blast.
At least 30 people were injured in Los Angeles after a vehicle drove into a crowd, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
At least four people were in critical condition, the Los Angeles Fire Department said early Saturday.
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.
Vidiots, a holdover from the golden age of VHS, is staging a comeback as a community hub.
Catch One, which she opened in Los Angeles in 1973 in the face of local animosity, became a glittering sanctuary for a largely shunned community.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Training Academy center.
La película de 2004 imaginaba una California sin latinos. Conforme el temor a las redadas de migración vacía partes de Los Ángeles, comentan sus creadores, la premisa se siente demasiado real.
Miles de elementos de la Guardia Nacional prestan servicio en la región de Los Ángeles desde el mes pasado. Seis soldados dijeron en entrevistas que el despliegue ha provocado un decaimiento en la moral.
The raid indicates a new strategy of going deeper into California after focusing on Southern California for several weeks.
Gov. Gavin Newsom says California should redraw its own congressional districts if Texas tries to gerrymander its lines. His idea faces long odds.
Przemyslaw Jeziorski, who taught quantitative marketing at the Haas School of Business, was shot several times on July 4 outside Athens, the authorities said.
An A.C.L.U. lawyer said it was possible that any sheriff who complied with the request could be in violation of California’s so-called sanctuary state law.
Después de que el presidente Trump anunció que el refrescó se fabricará con azúcar de caña en Estados Unidos, los “foodies” de ascendencia mexicana dijeron que la idea no les convencía.
After President Trump announced that Coke will be made with cane sugar in the U.S., as it is in Mexico, foodies of Mexican heritage said in interviews that they weren’t excited.
Thousands of National Guard members have served in the L.A. region since last month. Six soldiers spoke in interviews about low morale over the deployment.
Jennifer Medina, a political reporter at The New York Times who is based in Los Angeles, speaks with a witness who recorded an immigration raid near a Home Depot.
FEMA announced in April that it was ending the funding to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse.” The program saved taxpayers more than $150 billion over 20 years, the plaintiffs said.
Find out what it would look like to fully celebrate the wildly personal beauty of your garden “dialed to the max.”
The music supervisor was found shot to death inside her home in Los Angeles with her husband, Thomas Deluca, the police said. A 22-year-old was arrested in connection with the case.
President Trump mobilized the troops on June 7 in the wake of chaotic protests. They have remained in Southern California several weeks after most of the demonstrations had ended.
The 51-year-old faces life in prison without parole for killing his father-in-law and gravely wounding his mother-in-law in execution-style shootings in 2021.
An old favorite that’s still got it, brothy noodles you can slurp year-round and a tasting menu you won’t want to miss in Japantown.
He was a theologically uncompromising pastor in Southern California who influenced generations of evangelical preachers.
Samuel Haskell, 37, was accused of dismembering his wife and his in-laws. He was the son of Sam Haskell III, an Emmy-winning film producer and veteran talent agent.
A key survey of homelessness in Los Angeles determined that the number of people sleeping without shelter fell again. More than 72,000 people remain homeless in Los Angeles County.
Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.
We will regret not standing up to this venomous cruelty.
A Craftsman in Santa Barbara and contemporary homes in Manhattan Beach and San Luis Obispo.
The 2004 indie film imagined an absurd, Latino-less California. As fears of immigration raids empty out parts of Los Angeles, the film’s premise feels all too real, its creators say.
Immigrant workers are central to recovery efforts in neighborhoods burned in the January wildfires, but recent raids have led some to stay home.
In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.
A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.
During a chaotic raid in Ventura County on Thursday, the worker fell from a greenhouse at a cannabis farm, suffered spinal and skull injuries, and died on Friday.
Los Angeles Police Department officers fired foam projectiles and flash-bang devices at reporters and photographers who were covering the immigration protests in June.
Carlos Abundez, 35, is facing federal smuggling charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery. The birds, a threatened species, were in stable condition.
A year ago, misdirected Amazon returns began arriving at Karen Holton’s house in California. Eventually, she said, they were stacked so high that she could not easily use her door.
The heat is so clean and alive.
Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year.
Aparentemente los agentes utilizaron munición antidisturbios y gases lacrimógenos contra los manifestantes. El FBI dijo que estaba buscando a quien pareció disparar contra los agentes.
As extreme heat becomes more common, urban dwellers must relinquish their bias against daytime darkness and embrace the shadows.
La agricultura de California es un negocio de 60.000 millones de dólares al año. También es un sector que el presidente Trump ha sumido en la confusión.
Officers appeared to use crowd control munitions and tear gas against protesters. The F.B.I. said it was searching for a person who appeared to fire a pistol at officers.
Federal agents fired crowd control munitions at protesters who blocked a road outside of the farm. Some demonstrators threw objects at the agents’ vehicles.
Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.
And why the metropolis still has a lot of room to improve water usage.
Emergency responders rescued 27 workers who were trapped in an industrial tunnel that collapsed in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
The fertile valley feeds the world. President Trump has thrown farmers and farmworkers there into turmoil, but recently offered them a glimmer of hope.
The workers climbed over a mound of soil nearly 15 feet tall inside the tunnel, before being shuttled to the entry point more than five miles away.
Videos captured a scuffle between protesters and immigration agents outside a courthouse. No injuries were immediately reported, the police said.
The Rancho fire, which burned nearly five acres in Laguna Beach, prompted evacuations and caused power outages.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against two California agencies, accusing them of violating Title IX by allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports.
The state’s life expectancy was lower in 2024 than in 2019, according to an analysis, but primarily as a result of causes of death other than Covid.
Over 30 years, Blum Gallery was a powerhouse for Los Angeles and Japanese artists. But rising costs and lower sales in the art market forced a reckoning.
The legal move came the day after federal agents and National Guard troops converged on a Los Angeles park in an extraordinary show of force.
The Trump administration signaled that it would pursue enforcement actions against the state and previously threatened to cut federal education funds.
Casual yet extravagant Korean feasts, high-end comfort food without the fuss and another reason to love masa.
A partner at Sequoia, the venture capital giant drew criticism for calling the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York an “Islamist.”
In a blistering response to the Trump administration’s proposal to pull $4 billion in federal funding, state officials said the move was illegal, predetermined and based on flawed analysis.
Federal officials said it was an immigration enforcement operation, though it was unclear if anyone had been arrested. “It’s the way a city looks before a coup,” Mayor Karen Bass said as she condemned the action.
A student who paid thousands for a tech boot camp said it was “a Caltech program in name only.”
A three-bedroom kit house in Los Angeles, a two-bedroom cottage in Santa Rosa, and a three-bedroom home in Palm Springs.
When Patricia Brennecke returned to the rental market in the Bay Area, she was frustrated by how expensive apartments were, in an almost entirely digital market.
At first, Ziz LaSota seemed much like any other philosophically inclined young tech aspirant. Now, she and her followers are in jail, six people are dead, and Rationalists are examining whether their ideas played a role.
The explosion, which left seven people missing, started a wildfire and forced some cities and counties to cancel or postpone Fourth of July fireworks shows.
The latest networks of volunteers are hyperlocal and focused on responding to federal actions. As the crackdown becomes more intense, so could confrontations.
Displays of patriotism were evident at parades and hot dog eating contests, even at a time of deep political divisions among Americans.
School officials have demanded answers from federal agencies. It was the latest example of how locals have scrutinized the actions of immigration agents.
El conocido boxeador mexicano fue detenido por agentes de inmigración estadounidenses en California el miércoles, días después de disputar un combate de alto nivel contra el exyoutuber Jake Paul.
The well-known Mexican boxer was detained by U.S. immigration agents in California on Wednesday, days after fighting a high-profile contest against the former YouTuber Jake Paul.
A Times analysis of videos and interviews with police, protesters and legal experts found that officers misused 40-mm sponge rounds at immigration-raid protests.
The New York Times interviewed 16 U.S. mayors about President Trump, immigration and their lives outside City Hall.
He had the air of a throwback actor, a timeless Hollywood heavy who seemed to have stepped out of a 1940s film noir.
Noah Lamb, 24, was accused of playing a “central role” in a white supremacist group’s creation of a list of assassination targets, including a U.S. senator and a federal judge.
Journalists investigated the hazards that homeowners in Los Angeles faced, even if their houses were left standing after the wildfires.
Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids, as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.
Through Covid, protests, strikes and fires, the Independent Hospitality Coalition is helping local business navigate a volatile civic landscape.
The temporary lowering of tariffs may compel some U.S. businesses to order goods that they had held off buying after President Trump raised them to 145 percent.
Clinicians at the Department of Veterans Affairs say the president’s return-to-office order is forcing many of them to work from makeshift spaces where sensitive conversations can be overheard.
An unusually long strike in the San Jose area forced a shutdown of buses and light-rail trains. It was a possible harbinger of things to come for transit agencies elsewhere.
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.
Una pandemia humana puede prevenirse, incluso ahora, dicen los científicos. Pero una serie de acontecimientos de las últimas semanas indica que la posibilidad ya no es remota.
A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.
In a wide-ranging interview, Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s health secretary, defended his tenure and hinted that he might run for governor of California.
Facebook Marketplace, a platform often used for furniture and electronics, is an increasingly popular place to buy and sell home-cooked meals.
Federal prosecutors said that Andrew Do, an Orange County supervisor, enriched himself and his family with federal pandemic aid meant for seniors.
Andrew Do, an Orange County supervisor, has been asked to resign after directing more than $13 million to a nonprofit run by his daughter and allies. The group was supposed to spend the money on meals for vulnerable residents.
The city, which is among those most devastated in the country after the pandemic, is trying to lure businesses back with a free-rent period.
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.”
Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.
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.