I grew up with Chicano and Chicana culture in Los Angeles and heard it had spread to Japan. I wondered: Is this cultural appropriation?
When I heard Chicano culture had spread to Japan, I wanted to see it for myself. Who knew the culture I grew up with had a home so far from California?
By eliminating the financial burden of a medical education, the school hopes that more students will choose family medicine and other vital but lower-paid specialties.
A coalition of 16 states, including California and New York, is challenging President’s Trump use of emergency powers to spend billions on a border wall.
Greg Carlson, a fugitive spotted in four states in the last 18 months, was killed in a predawn raid on his hotel room, the F.B.I. said.
Will a film studio’s New York sets help a contemporary art fair soar after the city’s other fairs flopped?
In a country where wealth usually comes from mining or banking, Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes of Atlassian are a new kind of mogul. And they’re getting into politics.
More than 4,000 images from her early work are being displayed at the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Los Angeles.
An appreciation of the classics that define the city and set the bar for comforting food, skilled service and community.
Technology engineers have long served big profitable businesses well, while apps focusing on what more altruistic organizations need remained sparse. But that’s changing.
Just as activists and state lawmakers have sought to bring records of decades-old cases to light, police unions have tried to jam the door shut.
David Bernhardt, the agency’s acting chief, wants to roll back endangered-species protections on a tiny fish, a change that benefits few outside a California group he once represented as a lobbyist.
From Cardi B on the half shell to Michelle Obama in a silver lounge suit and a barefoot Alicia Keys, women were front and center.
Troops deployed last year at President Trump’s request will now help combat drug gangs and fight wildfires instead, under an order Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to sign on Monday.
Troops deployed last year at President Trump’s request will now help combat drug gangs and fight wildfires instead, under an order expected to be signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Ms. Harris seemed to try to be all things to all people as a district attorney and state attorney general. Now, as she runs for president, her record faces a chorus of critics, especially on the left.
Casey closed strong in the third round amid a mix of rain, sun and wind. Jordan Spieth ran into a rough stretch and fell off the pace.
Or mine isn’t, anyway.
Noxious sewage contaminated with feces, industrial chemicals and other raw waste crosses the border through the binational New River.
The ousted chief executive of CBS is occupying an office on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip that, per his exit agreement, is being paid for by the network.
A California assemblyman says his legislation is the most comprehensive law in the country.
Value in wine does not mean the cheapest price. The extra dimensions of distinctiveness and interest usually require $15 to $20 a bottle.
Mickelson shot a six-under-par 65 and trailed the leaders, Brian Gay and Scott Langley, by a stroke.
The California utility told state regulators that it could spend as much as $2.3 billion to reduce the risk from its equipment this year.
This summer, Sarah Cain will bring a high-art tradition into an unexpected setting: the San Francisco International Airport.
The artist’s light projection piece, which focused on gun violence, was slated to appear during the desert exhibition’s opening weekend.
The Danish collective Superflex has been seeking artful ways of tackling complex problems for 25 years. Their latest work imagines an underwater future.
These women want the right to compete in big-wave contests — and get paid as much as men do.
Residents of San Diego began writing to migrants in an immigration detention center just a few miles away. The letters opened new worlds for both of them.
Flash floods and powerful winds have caused disruptions all over the state, but they have also brought much-needed snow to mountain areas.
People living along the California-Mexico border have struggled to reconcile the president’s warnings about danger with their own experiences.
The plan to end transmission of the virus in the United States by 2030, outlined in the president’s State of the Union address, will focus on 48 counties where about half of new infections occur.
New hires are part of a rebuilding effort at a newspaper that has experienced hard times.
Elizabeth Baudouin and Natalie Shirinian have transformed a classic midcentury ranch house into an eclectic creative haven.
Major federal corruption investigations have brought dark clouds to Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and Philadelphia.
From managing the government’s SNAP food-assistance program to paying parking tickets on time or using payday loans, new technology can guide low-income people through complexity.
The workplace messaging company, one of the technology industry’s so-called unicorns, said Monday it had confidentially filed to go public.
An exercise in understanding resulted in outrage, disparagement and general unhappiness. Can anything positive come of it?
The pilot was killed, along with four people in a house in Yorba Linda. Two people were injured, and debris from the plane was discovered throughout the neighborhood.
As secretary of homeland security, she signed the memorandum that created the popular program protecting ‘Dreamers.’ Now she’s fighting to save it.
St. Louis is angry the Rams left. New Orleans thinks the Saints got cheated. Los Angeles has the Rams, but hey, LeBron is back. Atlanta is the conflicted host.
Mr. Avenatti, the lawyer for an adult film star suing President Trump, will not face charges over allegations made by an ex-girlfriend last year.
Under a bill approved in Albany, standardized tests could have almost no role in how teachers are evaluated — a sea change in New York’s approach.
A Southern California doyenne gets a bit of a freshening up. (Just don’t call it a face-lift.)
After two days of disruptions, the iPhone maker restored the social network’s access to internal apps that its employees rely on in their jobs.
Some Chinese couples were charged as much as $100,000 for a birth-tourism package that included housing, nannies and shopping at Gucci, according to the indictments.
The California native is “an energy person” who worked in TV and then did a little of everything at the couple’s start-up. It all prepared her to take it public.
The semantics are anything but trivial.
The Democratic presidential hopeful denied that as California’s attorney general she opposed a bill that would have required her office to investigate police shootings. But she had expressed disagreement with its aims.
A 1928 house in Los Angeles; a midcentury home in Charlottesville, Va.; and a modernist house in Austin, Tex.
A 1928 house in Los Angeles, a midcentury home in Charlottesville and a modernist house in Austin.
Mr. Garcetti would have faced a crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates and long odds. No sitting mayor has ever been elected president.
Mr. Garcetti would have faced a crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates, including Senator Kamala Harris of California, and long odds. No sitting mayor has ever been elected president.
The California utility’s bankruptcy filing sets up a complicated legal case that could raise electricity rates and hurt power suppliers while generating hundreds of millions in lawyers’ fees.
The bankruptcy of California’s biggest electric and gas utility is a case in point.
Pacific Gas and Electric has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The state’s wildfires are at the heart of its insolvency.
Pacific Gas and Electric has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The state’s wildfires are at the heart of its insolvency.
The white vermouth, from Gundlach Bundschu wine company, doesn’t need a martini. It can stand alone.
A small number of thousands of signature trees in Joshua Tree National Park were destroyed during the shutdown. Conservationists said replacing them will take time.
A move by California’s largest electric utility, anticipating billions of dollars in damage claims, leaves wildfire victims, ratepayers, investors, creditors and suppliers to battle over a plan.
The lawsuit seeks at least $20 million in damages and alleges that the officers who fatally shot Mr. Clark had racially profiled him and used excessive force.
While running Safeway Stores, Mr. Magowan headed a group that bought the team and kept it from moving from San Francisco to Florida.
Supporters of charter schools are back on their heels in Los Angeles and across the country after a wave of mass teacher walkouts.
A Los Angeles chef gathered about 100 women to make traditional Vietnamese banh chung with a supply of fresh banana leaves and a half-dozen pressure cookers.
Ms. Harris, a Democratic senator from California, described the nation and the world as at “an inflection point” in history. “Who are we as Americans?” she asked at the rally on Sunday.
Citizen scientists recently gathered in a coastal Northern California town to count the butterfly during its winter migration. The results were alarming.
Mark Zuckerberg’s charity is teaming up with groups like the Ford Foundation to spend half a billion dollars on housing around San Francisco.
The California utility’s shares soared on the finding, days after it said it planned to file for bankruptcy protection because of wildfire liabilities.
We asked some of the more than 30,000 teachers who went on strike last week to tell us how they teach their largest classes.
From 1983 to 1985, Stuart Swezey organized a series of guerrilla punk shows in Southern California. His new film, “Desolation Center,” tells their story.
With funding from a surprising source, Volkswagen, California is making sure low-income communities have the chance to gain access to electric vehicles.
A 1906 home in New Orleans; a colonial-style house in East Hampton, N.Y.; and a ranch-style home in Santa Cruz, Calif.
A 1906 home in New Orleans, a colonial in East Hampton and a ranch-style house in Santa Cruz.
Many in Calexico, Calif., were offended when President Trump called improvements to the border fence there “the start of our Southern Border WALL!”
The settlement came after tens of thousands of teachers marched in downtown Los Angeles and picketed outside schools for six school days.
The deal includes caps on class sizes and hiring full-time nurses for every school, as well as a 6 percent pay raise for teachers.
With President Trump recently signing into law a federal criminal justice reform bill, California’s experience is especially instructive.
Saturday was the last day for the restaurant, which opened days before sexual-harassment allegations surfaced against her partner, Ken Friedman.