Water recycling in office buildings is seen as a promising sustainability effort, as well as a smart hedge against rising costs and future shortages.
Tuesday: Introducing the new voice of the newsletter. Plus, Bay Area counties instate a universal indoor masking requirement.
San Francisco and six other Bay Area counties introduced a universal indoor mask mandate, adopting a suggestion from the C.D.C. as coronavirus cases surge.
A modern farmhouse in Ventura, a three-bedroom home in West Hollywood and a six-acre retreat with dramatic water views near Mendocino.
A modern farmhouse in Ventura, a three-bedroom home in West Hollywood and a six-acre retreat with dramatic water views near Mendocino.
Monday: Reflecting on almost three years of chronicling the biggest news in the Golden State.
Artistic swimmers strive to look graceful, but the sport comes with significant risks, as our writer knows from experience.
A year without retail therapy changed my attitude toward shopping.
They thought the worst of the pandemic was behind them. Then a new wave of cases arrived at the I.C.U. at Providence Saint John’s Health Center.
Anthony Barajas, who was popular on TikTok, and Rylee Goodrich were each shot in the head at a theater in Corona, Calif., in what the district attorney said was an unprovoked attack.
Vaccinations warded off severe Covid for most of the workers, who tested positive this month; two required hospitalization.
Thousands have had to leave their homes in what has grown into a grim ritual in wildfire-plagued Northern California. Many are demanding answers from PG&E, the large utility company.
He and Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones were inseparable in the late ’70s, and when Mr. Weiss’s romantic life took a turn, Ms. Jones memorialized it in “Chuck E.’s in Love.”
The Dixie Fire continued to burn through Northern California at an alarming rate as firefighters struggled to contain the strong blaze amid record-breaking temperatures.
Federal aviation officials said they, along with the F.B.I., were investigating the report of a person in a jetpack flying over Los Angeles.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California and Gov. Steve Sisolak of Nevada called for more federal firefighting assistance, as the states experienced yet another catastrophic wildfire season.
Friday: A guide to Golden State athletes in Tokyo and upcoming competitions to keep an eye on.
Her latest novel, “Something New Under the Sun,” imagines a highly imaginable California so ravaged by drought and wildfires that only the rich can afford to survive.
An indoor masking order hasn’t stopped visitors from enjoying Culver City, Downtown and Venice. Here are suggestions for food, culture and sights, with an outdoors emphasis.
The sailor, who was a member of the crew when the fire broke out last July, faces a hearing that will determine whether there will be a court-martial.
In response to a lawsuit, a judge says an environmental review must take place before any action is taken to remove or hide the Depression-era murals that some consider offensive.
The drought in Northern California is severe, and the risk of fires remains high. But winemakers are trying to adapt to climate change.
Utilities are fighting to keep the lights on amid extreme wildfires, heat and flooding fueled by global warming.
More than 1,500 employees for the video game giant, which is facing an explosive state lawsuit, have called for executives to take sexual harassment seriously.
The changing guidance and requirements as Covid cases surge. Also: Don't count cities out; Yosemite's charred landscape; with children, and without; essential workers.
Thursday: California’s most powerful college sports conference has a new boss, George Kliavkoff. Here’s what he has to say about the Pac-12’s future.
Frequent, low-intensity fires known as prescribed burns are one of the best ways to stop wildfires. So why isn’t California lighting more of them?
In paneer con tomate, bright and juicy acidity finds a perfect partner with bites of fried cheese.
Some of California’s staunchest vaccine resisters are state employees and health care workers, all of whom will be required to get vaccinated or undergo testing starting next month.
Tuesday: Although it rained on Monday, fire season is well underway. And the state’s biggest blaze is burning near areas scarred from the Camp Fire.
For the first time, a federal agency — the Department of Veterans Affairs — is requiring workers to receive Covid inoculations. Is this a sign of what is to come?
At these Los Angeles spots, creative Japanese rice balls inspired by home cooking are made to order.
Topped, filled and wrapped onigiri are portable, but best eaten right away.
In her new memoir, the “American Beauty” and “American Pie” actor opens up about years of sexual abuse and drug addiction, as well as an “eerie” moment with Kevin Spacey.
California and New York City announced the mandates for their employees, while the Department of Veterans Affairs said frontline health care workers must get vaccinated or face possible termination.
She fought anti-gay policies alongside Harvey Milk, wrote influential books, including science fiction, and founded a women-only refuge in the woods.
Los trabajadores de las fábricas que producen bienes para Estados Unidos están recibiendo vacunas estadounidenses. Las autoridades de ambos países esperan que el programa ayude a reabrir la frontera y a restablecer sus economías.
The Dixie Fire, which started more than a week ago, has become California’s largest wildfire this year.
Workers in factories that produce goods for the U.S. are getting American vaccines. Officials in both countries hope the program will help reopen the border and restore their economies.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced that all 246,000 state employees and health care workers must get the coronavirus vaccine or face regular testing one to two times per week.
The move comes as officials across the country grapple with whether to mandate vaccinations to fight off coronavirus outbreaks.
A storybook cottage in Los Angeles, a contemporary home in Long Beach and a Victorian in San Francisco.
A storybook cottage in Los Angeles, a contemporary home in Long Beach and a Victorian in San Francisco.
Homelessness is both a symptom and a cause of the growing political crisis.
A longhaired photographer who lured women by offering to take their picture, Mr. Alcala, 77, had been convicted of five murders in Orange County, Calif., and two in New York, all in the 1970s.
The debate over mandates is intensifying as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus surges in many parts of the United States.
To get out of conservatorship, the pop star will likely have to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, an uneasy melding of legal standards and mental health criteria.
Friday: A look at why California has long been a dominant athletic and cultural force at the Games.
Nyjah Huston’s signature dreadlocks are stored in a box now, an artifact of his early fame. The effects of his complicated upbringing have not been so easy to cut off.
Knapp, the team’s new passing-game specialist, was hit by a car while biking over the weekend and never regained consciousness, his family said.
The body of the 61-year-old, who had been missing since Saturday, was recovered on Tuesday near the summit of Mount Clark, the National Park Service said.
The vaccines are effective at preventing serious illness and death, but they are not a golden shield against the coronavirus.
Thursday: A conversation with Barbara Ferrer about how Los Angeles County is grappling with the Delta variant.
Every summer, the writer Barbara Jane Reyes takes a road trip in pursuit of the beauty, and the poetry, of the natural world.
A powerful legislator, he became chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in 2005 but faced scrutiny from the Justice Department for his ties to a lobbyist.
What does it mean if we can't protect even our protected land from climate change?
Manuel, 24, who had a banner 2019, has grappled with overtraining syndrome this year. In Tokyo, she aims to find her way back.
The California utility said the work would involve about 10,000 miles of its network, a project potentially costing tens of billions of dollars.
New research suggests the iconic Xerces blue butterfly may have been its own species.
After the Tamarack fire exploded in size over the weekend, authorities have ordered residents across California to evacuate.
A brick Colonial Revival house in Highland Park, a 1935 vacation cottage in Grand Haven and a contemporary home in Oakland.
A brick Colonial Revival house in Highland Park, Ill.; a 1935 vacation cottage in Grand Haven, Mich.; and a contemporary home in Oakland, Calif.
Wednesday: The demand for nonscientific water-finding services shows the desperation of farmers during a deepening drought.
After documenting a last-resort treatment at one hospital, a photographer who spent hours in patients’ rooms describes capturing the humanity of the struggle.
Is it profiteering — or justice?
A firefighter died in September while battling the El Dorado Fire in San Bernardino County, Calif.
Authorities ordered evacuations in Alpine County, Calif., south of Lake Tahoe, after the Tamarack fire exploded in size over the weekend, fueled by high temperatures and dry vegetation.
In a plea deal that spared him the death penalty, John T. Earnest admitted to killing a woman and injuring three others at a synagogue on the last day of Passover in 2019.
Los Angeles Police Department bomb technicians vastly underestimated the weight of a cache of illegal fireworks seized in late June, resulting in 17 injuries and damage to homes and businesses during a demolition operation.
The city council approved an amended term sheet, 6-1, but doubts were raised by its members and the team’s president.
From storied Santa Maria tri-tip on the Central Coast, to barbacoa in Los Angeles, to hot links in West Oakland, the rules for slow-and-low are constantly rewritten here.
The disgraced movie producer will soon stand trial again — this time in the city where he made his name.
Stable, affordable housing was out of reach for a Bay Area family. In a new short film, see a personal account of building a home without a house.
Stable, affordable housing was out of reach for a San Francisco Bay Area family. So they built a home without a house.
In recent years, researchers and wildlife officials in Australia and the United States have adopted terms like “bites,” “incidents” and “encounters.” They wish the public would, too.
Tuesday: More than 40 candidates are vying to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom if voters remove him from office.
Unpredictable winds, fire clouds that spawn lightning, and flames that leap over firebreaks are confounding efforts to fight the blaze, which is sweeping through southern Oregon.
Firefighters are battling to contain dozens of wildfires across the Western United States as a record-breaking drought and unrelenting heat have created ideal conditions for flames to quickly spread.
Anthony Veasna So died before the release of his first book, “Afterparties,” but his loved ones, mentors and newfound fans are making it a particularly significant debut.
A bungalow in Alameda, a Spanish-style house in Pasadena and a midcentury-modern home in Twentynine Palms.
A bungalow in Alameda, a Spanish-style house in Pasadena and a midcentury-modern home in Twentynine Palms.
Monday: As Los Angeles County’s indoor mask requirement took effect, there was eager acceptance and stubborn refusal, mild grumbling and blurted-out outrage.
Multiple blazes burning around California have strained crews.
Los Angeles County on Sunday became the first major county to revert to requiring masks for all people indoors in public spaces.
Mr. George, the co-host of “She Rates Dogs,” was struck as he crossed a street early on Saturday morning in Los Angeles, the authorities said.
Sunscreen on grapes. Toilet water that is treated and used for irrigation. Napa Valley winemakers are taking extreme steps in the face of climate change.
A vote on Tuesday could be the final straw that pushes the Athletics out of Oakland. For a nomadic team that has moved twice before, everything old is new again.
A string of attacks against older people of Asian descent has led to calls for more police officers, an idea rejected by the city’s Asian American leaders.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva has repeatedly declined to enforce Covid restrictions, including a statewide stay-at-home order last winter.
Amid California’s drought, desperate landowners and managers are turning to those who practice an ancient, disputed method for locating water.
The men consulted with an antigovernment paramilitary organization and hoped to start a “movement” that could keep former President Donald J. Trump in office.
The Uber CEO dreams of “pushing a button and getting a piano delivered to your home in an hour and a half.” Uh … let’s start with dinner?
A new indoor mask requirement in Los Angeles County comes as new virus cases have nearly tripled statewide. Immunization rates, however, should keep any spike below past peaks.
Friday: Why extreme heat should be treated like other natural disasters, and how you can stay safe.
Artificial intelligence promises to remake the world. These believers are fighting to make sure thousands of years of text and tradition find a place among the algorithms.
U.S. arrivals are up, but so are coronavirus cases, especially in hot tourism spots like Los Cabos and Cancún. Experts urge caution, but visitors keep coming.
Over 60 active fires are burning across the Western United States, displacing hundreds of people and burning over 900,000 acres, with hot, dry conditions expected to continue.
Officials took more than 12 hours to alert the public about the discharge, drawing a rebuke from environmental watchdogs and elected representatives.
Public health officials in the county had already been urging residents to wear masks indoors. The mandate will begin Saturday night, just before midnight.
Potentially record-setting temperatures are coming to parts of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah.
Juli Mazi of Napa, Calif., also sold “immunization pellets” to patients, federal prosecutors said.
Critics said the pandemic would make the industry flee San Francisco and its southern neighbor, Silicon Valley. But tech can’t seem to quit its gravitational center.
A crowd of supporters gathered outside a Los Angeles courthouse on Wednesday to protest the pop star’s conservatorship.
The dangers of climate change require major spending now. Future generations will thank us for it.
As Covid restrictions are lifted, the grand building is once again filling up with couples looking to marry. Here are nine of them.
Wednesday: A homeless couple went from a tent to a trailer, but continues to wait after more than a year for something more permanent.
The Bootleg fire has burned more than 200,000 acres and prompted evacuations.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and fellow Democrats responded to strong lobbying from small nonprofit theaters to support their reopening.
The decisions come after the Centers for Disease Control relaxed guidelines, urging schools to fully reopen in the fall and to use local health data to determine measures like face coverings.
Extreme heat and drought conditions have fueled wildfires across the West, with dozens actively burning in the region. In Oregon, the Bootleg Fire has burned more than 200,000 acres.
Tuesday: As Eric Garcetti prepares to leave the job, a look at how the role compares with the responsibilities of another big-city leader.
See the latest on the Beckwourth Complex, Bootleg Fire and other wildfires burning in California, Oregon and elsewhere.
The latest amenity in high-end developments takes wellness to a new level, helping residents get in touch with their inner selves.
The pandemic has intensified a bitter, yearslong fight over homelessness in the city — with no end in sight.
A state law threatens to drive up labor costs for the city’s hand-to-mouth small theater scene as it tries to emerge from the pandemic.
While ventilator shortages have been largely averted in the U.S., this lifesaving therapy is scarce. How to choose which critically ill patients get it?
A midcentury-modern house in Sierra Madre, a Tudor Revival in Burlingame and a Victorian cottage in Coronado.
A midcentury-modern house in Sierra Madre, a Tudor Revival in Burlingame and a Victorian cottage in Coronado.
Monday: Consider the almond. Also: Mayor Eric Garcetti is set to go to India.
The president and energy companies want new transmission lines to carry electricity from solar and wind farms. Some environmentalists and homeowners are pushing for smaller, more local systems.
In addition to his Hollywood legacy, the Missouri native was also a bodybuilder, a champion discus thrower and a published poet.
With record-breaking temperatures and hard-to-contain wildfires, Western states are struggling through a hellish summer.
In California, a young generation of Sikh farmers has agricultural roots that stretch back 900 years.
Ultramarathons may be the ultimate endurance leveling ground. Half of the top 30 finishers at this year’s Western States 100-mile race were women.
More than 20,000 people, many of them disabled, poor or people of color, were forced to undergo the procedure under the state’s decades-long eugenics program.
Temperatures were broiling from Utah to California as another “heat dome” led Western states to set up cooling centers and issue motel vouchers.
The pandemic forced Hollywood to fully embrace the home-theater experience, leaving struggling cine in the dust.
Un recorrido de la casa de Eugenio López Alonso en Los Ángeles ofrece un vistazo a algunas de las obras favoritas de uno de los más destacados coleccionistas de arte.
Record-breaking heat was expected throughout the West Coast this weekend, days after a deadly heat wave struck Oregon and Washington State.
An early estimate points to a huge die-off along the Pacific Coast, and scientists say rivers farther inland are warming to levels that could be lethal for some kinds of salmon.
Friday: Gov. Gavin Newsom is one of dozens of public officials facing recall attempts across California. Here’s why.
The pandemic has increased demand and also ramped up the expectations of vacationers.
The wrenching process of learning to live within limits will redefine the Golden State.
Americans are flocking to national parks in record numbers, in many cases leading to long lines and overcrowded facilities. Here’s what four parks looked like over the holiday weekend.
The West Coast is preparing for yet another extreme heat wave, with highs in the triple digits in parts of the state on Saturday.
Thursday: Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a new process for investigating police officers who shoot unarmed civilians.
The states, including Massachusetts and New York, agreed to drop opposition to the bankruptcy organization plan of the company, the maker of OxyContin.
The close ties between coroners and law enforcement have fueled an usual and unregulated industry: for-profit forensic examinations.
Most Californians want no part of this nonsense.
A Frenchman who loves the American West and collects BMX bikes makes eyewear that touches on all sorts of cool.
Trump gutted emissions reductions. The president must make up for time lost.
Wednesday: Here’s what to know about the date of the special election that will allow voters to decide whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom.
How would you like to live in the state of New York City?
The lawyer filed papers to withdraw after the singer said at a court hearing that she wanted new counsel to represent her and get her out of the conservatorship that governs her life.
Vijaya Srivastava, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, took her first swimming lesson at age 68. She’s now a daily swimmer.
Tuesday: A newly reopened state celebrates.
Eugenio López Alonso divides his time between Los Angeles and Mexico, filling both homes with paintings and sculpture.