The unexpected sighting of a waved albatross, which was thousands of miles from its typical range, earned it a label ornithologists reserve for the unexpected: an avian “vagrant.”
Mr. Newsom, the California governor and a potential presidential candidate, writes that the privileged caricature of his background is mistaken.
One person died earlier this month in a foggy crash on the same highway.
A new world, hard to grasp and even harder to predict.
Demonstrators rallied across the country, leaving school and work and closing businesses in a show of solidarity with Minneapolis.
The coyote struggled onto the rocky shore this month. It is the first documented coyote on Alcatraz since the island was transferred to the National Park Service in 1972.
Climbers have used the 70-pound rock, which they call Portable, to practice balancing and gripping. Months after it went missing, it was found 19 hours away.
The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said this week that it would stop making the car, an electric pioneer in 2012, as well as the Model X.
Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, two outspoken Silicon Valley leaders, are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to elect moderate state lawmakers this year.
Leaders are set to gather in Washington as an unusual winter drought looms, raising the threat of lawsuits over a diminishing water supply.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a top federal health official, posted a video that accuses Armenian Americans in California of health care fraud.
The Border Patrol commander gave agents wide latitude to arrest people as immigration raids began last summer. Similar tactics were later used in other cities.
Video from last summer shows the Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino telling federal agents dressed in tactical gear to “arrest as many people that touch you as you want.” The video was made public as part of a federal lawsuit over immigration enforcement in the Chicago area.
A proposed class-action lawsuit claims Costco was misleading customers and engaging in false advertising when it described the chicken as having no preservatives.
Matt Mahan, a moderate Democrat who serves as mayor of San Jose, Calif., is entering the crowded race for California governor.
The Trump administration has not yet released the count, which could complicate its plans for tough new policies.
Sergey Brin donated $20 million to a new political drive aimed at solving California’s housing crisis, spurring other billionaires to pitch in. Their efforts may also help ward off a wealth tax.
The actress proved, once again, she has a knack for thriving in the attention economy.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s poetry, performance and films inspired generations of artists. Never forgotten after her murder, a new exhibition sheds light on her legacy.
Municipal debt issuance surpassed $500 billion last year, a record that’s found a deep pool of buyers.
Residents were shocked to see a young mountain lion roaming the streets of San Francisco this week. Local animal control agencies were able to capture and tranquilize it on Tuesday.
Following a Times investigation, a state lawmaker is proposing the first health-based standards for assessing smoke contamination after wildfires.
The tech giant has spent more than $6 million on TV ads in state capitals and Washington, with the message that data centers create jobs.
Brandon Jew’s flagship San Francisco restaurant brings a distinctly Californian point of view to his Chinese American fine dining.
Starting this week, a series of trials will test a new legal strategy claiming that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal injury through addictive products.
Executives, investors and engineers are speaking out against the Trump administration after the killings of Alex Pretti and another protester in moves reminiscent of Silicon Valley a decade ago.
Ricursive Intelligence, founded by two former Google researchers and valued at $4 billion, is among several efforts to automate the creation of artificial intelligence.
A midcentury modern house in Santa Monica, a contemporary Spanish-style house in Redondo Beach and a cottage in Carmel-by-the-Sea
She was known for her lavish parties and her marriage to one of the richest men in San Francisco. After he left her, she found a new purpose: visiting world leaders to plead for peace.
He endured years of frustration before emerging as the N.F.L.’s most valuable player.
Philadelphia sued the Trump administration after it directed the Park Service to rip out a memorial to slavery. Elsewhere, materials about climate change and labor history were being removed.
California Democrats are fighting over a proposed wealth tax. Our panel of experts sorts out the merits.
The move comes as ICE seeks to deport more people charged with crimes, sometimes before their cases are resolved.
Los Angeles-based chefs share their ideas for starting the day right, and without much fuss.
The sensors used to listen for earthquakes could help protect people from the hazards created by falling spacecraft.
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.
A lawsuit in California has kept incarcerated people who were granted their freedom in prison for an indeterminate period.
Mucha gente en Hollywood está a punto de tener un buen día.
After meeting in Phoenix and discovering they were both from Southern California, a couple plotted their return. Here’s what they found at the border of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.
The nominations are being announced by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman from the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Jamelle Bouie, Ross Douthat and Kathleen Kingsbury on how Trump is changing the U.S. and the world.
Leslie Iwerks’s documentary is a captivating look at the creative and logistical challenges of building a beloved theme park on California farmland.
New York is joining the small group of states switching to chip-and-pin cards to evade skimming devices that siphon money for food from low-income people.
The authorities said an agent fired his weapon at a man in Compton, Calif., who was being pursued over a human smuggling operation. The man was not struck.
A recently filed lawsuit claims the ratings assigned by A.I. screening software are similar to those of a credit agency and should be subject to the same laws.
The wealth tax ballot proposal has set off a feverish debate in California, as well as plenty of confusion.
El número de multimillonarios se ha disparado en el mundo, pero a menudo pagan impuestos a tasas muy inferiores a la media. Además: tragedia ferroviaria en España y adiós a Valentino.
For decades, there had been an average of 30 each year. With a new deterrent in place, there were none in the second half of 2025.
After the Trump administration’s cuts, workers at the national park are spread too thin to stop people from littering, flying drones and cliff-diving.
The number of billionaires has exploded, yet they often pay taxes at rates well below average.
A ranch house in South Lake Tahoe, a Queen Anne Revival in San Jose and a bungalow in Los Angeles
Just before President Trump took office, Border Patrol agents led by Gregory Bovino arrested immigrants in Kern County using the same playbook later seen in places like Chicago and Minneapolis. Then a federal judge ordered them to stop.
The 30-year-old albino resident of the California Academy of Sciences died last month. On Sunday, thousands paid tribute.
Artificial intelligence meets the entertainment industry: What could possibly go wrong?
At the request of Thompson’s widow, the Colorado authorities are re-examining his death. “The whole Hunter world is buzzing,” a lawyer said.
The robbery at the Poké Court on Wednesday was the latest in a string of thefts of high-value Pokémon trading cards.
Mr. Caruso had the potential to shake up the contests for Los Angeles mayor or California governor.
Instead, the man was convicted of lesser charges, including involuntary manslaughter, in the death of Vicha Ratanapakdee. The killing became a symbol of rising attacks against Asians during the pandemic.
Southern California Edison said its equipment most likely started the Eaton fire but asserted that government agencies and other businesses shared liability for the devastation.
Track the latest polls in the California governor election.
Gov. Gavin Newsom framed the move as a rebuke to President Trump, who recently cut the holiday from the list of free-entry days at U.S. national parks.
One year after the Los Angeles fires, 2hollis talks about losing his childhood home in Altadena last year.
A vote by the state senate on Friday could send an amendment to voters that, if approved, would allow the legislature to gerrymander the state.
London Breed has said little in the year since she left office. She has thoughts on the praise that the current mayor, Daniel Lurie, has received.
The Justice Department has sued about two dozen states over access to voter rolls, as the federal government pushes to create a national database.
The famed highway reopened this week after consecutive landslides shuttered two sections of the road in Big Sur and forced major repairs.
He and Steven Z. Meyers opened their first low-cost legal clinic in 1972. Within a decade, they had revolutionized the legal industry.
Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.
El gobierno de Trump ha puesto fin a las protecciones del TPS para unos 600.000 migrantes venezolanos, parte de su esfuerzo por frenar las vías de acceso para que permanezcan en EE. UU.
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal.
The Trump administration has ended Temporary Protected Status for about 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants, part of a broader effort to curb avenues for immigrants to remain in the United States.
The case, escalating the interstate battle over abortion, is the second time Louisiana has criminally charged out-of-state doctors with sending abortion pills to Louisiana residents.
A panel in Los Angeles sided with Gov. Gavin Newsom in a decision that will help Democrats counter Republican gerrymandering in Texas. Republicans are expected to appeal.
A little-known and rarely enforced law prohibits ball games on some Los Angeles streets and sidewalks. The local council has begun the process of repealing it.
The actor also made “criminal threats” toward the driver, according to the Los Angeles police.
Starting Wednesday, prospective buyers can enter a lottery to get a chance to purchase the first tickets in April.
Beloved places to dine out are portals to past versions of ourselves. But they keep disappearing.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said he was working behind the scenes to block a proposed tax on billionaires’ wealth and was committed to defeating the measure if it reached the ballot.
Graffiti denouncing Zionism was discovered Sunday on a wall of the campus, which has not yet been rebuilt after the Eaton fire.
Jinchao Wei sold technical manuals for American warships to a Chinese intelligence officer who had recruited him on social media.
A U-Haul truck sped through a street packed with demonstrators in Los Angeles on Sunday as they marched in support of the anti-government protests in Iran. The truck hit one person, who was not significantly injured.
A Gothic Revival in Napa, a Spanish-style house in Los Angeles and an Arts and Crafts-style house in San Diego.
The city is home to a large Iranian American community, and protests against the Iranian government drew thousands on Sunday.
Selena Gomez, Timothée Chalamet and the stars of “Heated Rivalry” were among the celebrities who arrived at the annual ceremony in high style.
More large donations from wealthy Silicon Valley figures are expected as they try to marshal opposition to a proposed ballot measure that would impose a new tax on billionaires.
The annual awards show will anoint a best podcast for the first time this year, a sign of the industry’s increasing status in Hollywood.
His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it became an American institution.
The death of a Sonoma County resident last week prompted public health officials to urge foragers not to consume wild mushrooms.
The city’s towering challenges include an abandoned skyscraper covered in graffiti. At David Kordansky Gallery, it inspires a tower of its own.
She was the family’s first baby in 16 years. And she came into their world as the Altadena fire changed everything. They struggled for months to find housing, stability and peace.
The rooms of the interior designer Sean Leffers’s West Hollywood home are filled with his own fabric designs and many, many antiques.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and Bill Essayli, a Los Angeles-based prosecutor, said they were investigating federally funded services.
The ruling temporarily halted plans to freeze more than $10 billion in funds for anti-poverty programs bound for five Democratic-led states.
The California governor is powered by smoothies and bursting with thoughts about U.S. politics.
We help a reader track down furniture from a photograph taken in the early 1950s.
Sergey Brin is joining his Google co-founder, Larry Page, in reducing ties to the state where they built their fortunes.
Entre aplicaciones, teorías y métricas, un grupo de tecnólogos intenta escalar la conexión humana sin perder de vista lo que la vuelve impredecible.
Mario Miralles spent decades acquiring the spruce and maple for string instruments worthy of Yo-Yo Ma and Gustavo Dudamel. Then he was forced to evacuate.
The administration cited without evidence “potential” widespread fraud in its move to cut off funds for child care subsidies and other support for low-income families.
At the premiere of Season 2 in Los Angeles, the cast and crew of HBO Max’s hyper-realistic medical drama learned the show would be renewed.
Gov. Gavin Newsom will portray his state as “a beacon” of democracy in a State of the State address that suggests national ambitions.
The star of “The Hills,” whose house burned in the Palisades fire, has used his social media profile to hammer Mayor Karen Bass and other California Democrats over the past year.
Nick Reiner, a quien se acusa de asesinar a sus padres, estará representado ahora por una abogada de oficio. Su comparecencia está prevista para el próximo mes.
All those targeted in the shootings were fired on while in their vehicles.
The artificial intelligence start-up, which competes with OpenAI, is aiming to raise around $10 billion amid talk of a potential initial public offering.
The White House is intensifying and broadening its probes into fraud in states led by prominent Democrats.
Mr. Reiner, who is charged with killing his parents, will now be represented by a public defender. His arraignment has been rescheduled for next month.
It’s hard right now to be a progressive Democrat in the heart of America’s tech industry.
After wildfires destroyed much of Altadena and Pacific Palisades, residents are struggling with how to move forward and who is to blame.
Shawn Hubler, our Los Angeles bureau chief, reported on the reasons Pacific Palisades and Altadena are still largely barren, a year after they burned in the Los Angeles fires.
From neighborhood diners, to Michelin-starred restaurants loyalty has its privileges.
Leaders use a mix of new rules, visual aids and incentives to convince residents to protect their homes — and entire neighborhoods — from wildfires.
Rourke’s landlord said in court documents that the actor owed nearly $60,000 in rent. Rourke said he had declined to pay rent after the home became uninhabitable.
The California Republican’s sudden passing, on the same day that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation took effect, made the party’s House math even trickier.
Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also praised his credentials as a communicator at a time when science is under attack.
A group of tech executives, app developers and Silicon Valley philosophers is seeking to streamline the messy matters of the heart.
An architect who wanted a bicoastal life took on a 1,000-square-foot second home built below street level in Silver Lake.
Companies like Kairos Energy are building new types of reactors with the encouragement of the Trump administration, but their success is far from assured.
The funding pause could jeopardize child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.
Our list for the new year features an eclipse, a revolution and a tiger reserve. What’s on yours?
Because families have complicated schedules.
This week’s properties include a 1969 cottage in Mendocino, a 1980 Mediterranean-style house in Rancho Mirage and a 1922 bungalow in Los Angeles.
One year later, we haven’t really begun to reckon with the real meaning of the Los Angeles fires.
Lia Smith was a senior at Middlebury College, a transgender woman and, for a time, an athlete on the school’s diving team. But she struggled to feel accepted, and in October, she took her own life.
Experts say that it’s too early to tell what will happen during the rest of the state’s rainy season, but that extreme drought is unlikely.
Stockton is known for its grit in the face of tragedy. A recent shooting that left four people dead, including three children, is testing the resilience of a city in search of reinvention.
Highways were blocked and a regional airport shut down on Saturday when the latest in a long run of drenching rainstorms coincided with especially high tides.
COSM, a company once focused on planetarium displays, is immersing sports fans with giant screens and desirable angles.
The gray-market drugs flooding Silicon Valley reveal a community that believes it can move faster than the F.D.A.
A Ninth Circuit panel said the ban ran afoul of a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that required courts to evaluate gun laws based on the country’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.”
Some state-issued identification cards issued to legal immigrants could be valid longer than the people holding them are allowed to remain in the United States, state officials said.
The state has seen a nonstop run of storms in recent weeks. This one is expected to bring heavy rain through the weekend.
Saks Global’s executive chairman, Richard Baker, is taking over the luxury retailer he created with the 2024 acquisition of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman.
For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home.
A survey of museum directors reveals the impact of federal cutbacks: reduced arts programs for rural areas, students and people who are elderly or disabled.
The daughter of a politician, she didn’t expect to become one. But once she ran for office in 1987, there was no stopping her.
The guidelines, from California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii, mirror those of major medical organizations. They were issued a day before an advisory panel was set to meet to review potential changes to federal recommendations.
The state has led the country in adopting electric cars and reducing gas use, but it now faces much higher gas prices as oil companies plan to shut down refineries.
Governors in California, Oregon and Washington said their states would work together on vaccine guidance in a time of turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The downtown mall was long considered a thriving retail anchor, while the suburban-style one was an afterthought. They had a surprising role reversal.
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.
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.