With Kamala Harris out of the California governor's race, other candidates are jockeying to be seen as the new front runner. Some analysts said that's "ludicrous," and that no one stands out yet.| Los Angeles Times
The 2026 governor's race is in suspended motion as donors and powerful Democratic interests await former Vice President Kamala Harris' decision about whether she will enter the contest.| Los Angeles Times
Porter focused on protecting Californians from President Trump's policies, a theme that is expected to be a throughline in next year's gubernatorial contest.| Los Angeles Times
Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday she is not running for governor of California in 2026, keeping the door open for a 2028 presidential run.| Los Angeles Times
Former President Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services is strongly considering running for governor of California, according to allies.| Los Angeles Times
The wide-open race to succeed Gavin Newsom as California governor has already attracted a large and diverse field of candidates.| Los Angeles Times
Southern California's heat wave will peak Thursday, bringing triple-digit temperatures to L.A. County. Hotter than normal weather will continue well into next week.| Los Angeles Times
With the Games happening in a presidential election year, Trump would love nothing more than to traipse around an L.A. radically transformed by his deportation aggressions to proclaim his mission accomplished and broadcast his conquest to the world.| Los Angeles Times
The Canyon fire along the Ventura-Los Angeles county line quickly grew to over 1,000 acres Thursday afternoon, triggering evacuations in and around Piru and Castaic.| Los Angeles Times
L.A. City Council members have called on the Department of Water and Power to examine why fire hydrants lost water pressure in last week's epic firefight, and why a reservoir was offline.| Los Angeles Times
The fires in L.A. have caused terrible air quality conditions across the county. Here are ways you can protect yourself, and your children, from the health impacts of wildfire smoke.| Los Angeles Times
Could balloon-like water tanks help California prepare for fires? Some call an energy company’s “Water Trees” a game-changing solution to store water where needed to fight fires.| Los Angeles Times
Gov. Gavin Newsom orders independent investigation into how the loss of water pressure left fire hydrants dry, hindering firefighting efforts in Los Angeles.| Los Angeles Times
The Supreme Court's conservatives said it was a federal judge in San Francisco, not President Trump, who exceeded her authority.| Los Angeles Times
When the justices rule without offering a rationale, we can't know if they are following the law or just exercising power.| Los Angeles Times
The millions raised by the benefit concert in January is just a sliver of the billions in damage inflicted on Altadena and the Palisades. The Times spoke with FireAid organizers about how the funds have been distributed roughly six months after the devastation.| Los Angeles Times
In a cruel coincidence, the Palisades and Eaton fires wiped out two neighborhoods with unique significance in L.A.’s music industry.| Los Angeles Times
Thanks to a lazy pun that’s as uninspired as the jeans it’s meant to sell, a series of American Eagle Outfitters ads starring 27-year-old actor Sydney Sweeney have sparked a culture war.| Los Angeles Times
Despite years of costly lawsuits, oversight measures and promises by leaders to rein in indiscriminate use of force, the LAPD faces sharp criticism, fresh litigation and questions.| Los Angeles Times
The LAPD chief said in a department-wide message this week that some officers face conflicting feelings of 'loyalty, frustration, fear, or sometimes even shame as the community mistakenly views you as part of something that you are not.'| Los Angeles Times
In the last five years, the city has shelled out nearly $70 million for jury verdicts or settlements from lawsuits involving officers who alleged whistleblower retaliation and other workplace injustices.| Los Angeles Times
If the Trump administration seeks to deport Los Angeles police officers who benefit from the Obama-era program known as DACA, it's unclear what — if anything — the department could do to intervene.| Los Angeles Times
A lieutenant, a sergeant and two officers in the LAPD's Recruiting Employment Division have been assigned to home during the investigation.| Los Angeles Times
The department is down hundreds of officers from its 2019 ranks and projects that it will continue to dwindle in fiscal year 2025.| Los Angeles Times
A leaked recording of L.A. City Council members and a labor official includes racist remarks. Council President Nury Martinez apologizes; Councilmember Kevin de León expresses regret.| Los Angeles Times
Immigration agents arrest dozens around Home Depot in Hollywood, shattering the lives of the vendors and their families who created a makeshift community there.| Los Angeles Times
A Hawaii woman traveling to New York has disappeared after missing a connecting flight at Los Angeles International Airport, according to her family and police.| Los Angeles Times
An hours-long standoff between protesters and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents erupted Saturday morning near a Home Depot in Paramount.| Los Angeles Times
It can't be a protest in L.A. without street food. Meet the vendors who want to go down in 'history books' for serving and aiding anti-ICE protesters.| Los Angeles Times
Gascón has been unfairly cast as the cause of recent crime waves. He did in his first term exactly what he promised voters: Work to make the justice system more just.| Los Angeles Times
Labor advocates and some elected officials are calling on Los Angeles County to adopt a minimum wage of at least $25 an hour.| Los Angeles Times
Xavier Becerra, who served as California attorney general, joined a growing field of Democrats running next year to replace termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom.| Los Angeles Times
Tax revenues have exceeded estimates in California, but Gov. Gavin Newsom's costly new proposals and other programs could swallow up any extra budget funds.| Los Angeles Times
When fire hydrants ran dry, the L.A. Department of Water and Power struggled to get water where needed. The utility's operations chief explains the decisions as the fire spread.| Los Angeles Times
A reservoir in the Palisades that holds 117 million gallons of water was offline this month for previously scheduled maintenance.| Los Angeles Times
State lawmakers implored community members to hasten Aliso Canyon's closure by consuming less gas and turning to electric appliances.| Los Angeles Times
Mikael Wood and August Brown were at Inglewood's Intuit Dome and Kia Forum for the FireAid benefit concerts starring Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Green Day and Stevie Wonder, among many others.| Los Angeles Times
A complaint reviewed by The Times accuses officers of voicing open discrimination against potential recruits and colleagues based on race, sex and sexual orientation.| Los Angeles Times
The month-long search for Hannah Kobayashi appears to have come to a conclusion this week with her family saying they have found her safe.| Los Angeles Times
Hannah Kobayashi, the Maui woman deemed "voluntarily missing" by the Los Angeles Police Department after she vanished last month and crossed the border to Mexico, has been found safe, her family announced Wednesday.| Los Angeles Times
Ryan Kobayashi, who flew to Los Angeles looking for his daughter, Hannah, after she was reported missing, 'tragically took his own life,' according to his family.| Los Angeles Times
Gov. Gavin Newsom this week stymied implementation of landmark state environmental legislation that would have limited the amount of single-use plastics sold and distributed in California.| Los Angeles Times
Conversations with an assortment of residents show most have no clue who's running in 2026. But they want someone fully committed to the job and not treating the governorship as a stepping stone to the White House.| Los Angeles Times
A ballot measure that would have lowered the approval threshold for local bonds to support affordable housing and other projects failed.| Los Angeles Times
Newsom energy package sparks tug of war in final hours of California legislative session.| Los Angeles Times
The politicians' private texts highlight an increasingly fractious relationship between two of the most powerful women in Los Angeles.| Los Angeles Times
Scientists worry there will be immediate harm from the Trump administration's latest federal workforce cuts, which hit NOAA and the National Weather Service.| Los Angeles Times
Dangerous widespread winds threaten Southern California's dry landscape this week, with wildfire and power outage concerns.| Los Angeles Times
Mohammad Abu Al-Qumsan lost his children, wife, and mother-in-law in an Israeli strike that hit a Gaza Strip apartment building while he was away.| Los Angeles Times
California's Proposition 6 and Nevada's Question 4 sounded like similar prison reforms. But key differences may explain the diverging outcomes.| Los Angeles Times
This measure asks voters to change parts of Proposition 47, a controversial ballot initiative passed in 2014 that turned some nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors.| Los Angeles Times
Progressive district attorneys and advocates who claimed the mantle of criminal justice reform were routed on election day in California. But despite the recent defeats, some reform advocates are confident their movement 'doesn’t need a rebrand.'| Los Angeles Times
California's voters typically lean heavily to the left. So, why did a minimum-wage boost fail?| Los Angeles Times
The California Legislative Analysts' Office predicted a largely balanced budget outlook in the upcoming fiscal year, but warned about uncertainties.| Los Angeles Times
Has California reached its limit in providing benefits for immigrants living here illegally? That’s the indication after Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed three bills passed by the liberal Legislature.| Los Angeles Times
The state's latest recycling failures are unfortunate but not shocking. The petrochemical industry has a long history of outsmarting regulation.| Los Angeles Times
The common food dyes — blue 1, blue 2, green 3, red 40, yellow 5 and yellow 6 — have been linked to developmental and behavioral harms in children, according to the California Environmental Protection Agency.| Los Angeles Times
Israel-Hamas war: In Israel, a quest to identify unrecognizable bodies. In Gaza, bodies are piled and some stored in ice cream trucks as power fails.| Los Angeles Times
A possibly protracted — and broadened — Middle East conflict looms as Israel and Hamas militants trade fire, leaving hundreds dead on both sides.| Los Angeles Times
Ex-Israeli soccer player Lior Asulin was among the more than 260 people killed by Hamas militants at the Supernova music festival near the Gaza border.| Los Angeles Times
Urging restraint won't work, given the scale of the Palestinian attacks. How far will further escalation go?| Los Angeles Times
Jewish UCLA students had sued the university, saying it failed to ensure they had full access to campus during pro-Palestinian encampments in the spring.| Los Angeles Times
When a medfly quarantine in L.A. ended this summer, you could be forgiven for asking, "A what quarantine?" This is the tale of California's long fight against an agricultural pest.| Los Angeles Times
California’s legalization of recreational cannabis in 2016 ushered in a multibillion-dollar industry. But many of the promises of legalization have proved elusive.| Los Angeles Times
The governor and San Francisco are taking a hard line to empty encampments. That's not the way solve to solve homelessness.| Los Angeles Times
A wildfire burning northeast of Chico has swelled to more than 164,000 acres, sending thousands of residents fleeing in the night.| Los Angeles Times
More than 27,000 customers across California at one point had their power cut due to increased wildfire risks, and many more could soon experience the safety shutoffs.| Los Angeles Times
Portions of Highway 47, including the Vincent Thomas Bridge, reopened Friday after a big rig containing lithium batteries crashed in San Pedro, sparking a fire.| Los Angeles Times
Homeland Security officials say CDC guidance on coronavirus and 'public health' outweigh U.S. laws that protect asylum seekers and migrant children.| Los Angeles Times
The legislators call the ballot measure an ‘expensive’ crime reform that will lead to more incarceration and the over-policing of underserved communities.| Los Angeles Times
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed 10 bills in what he is calling an unprecedented effort to combat escalating retail crimes and car thefts.| Los Angeles Times
The measure hit the ballot just as the Black Lives Matter movement was drawing new attention to demands for change in the criminal justice system.| Los Angeles Times
Some members of the Black caucus opposed the legislation, saying it would lead to too many people being sent to prison.| Los Angeles Times
California’s summer COVID surge has proved to be particularly strong and enduring, as it storms to levels not seen in summertime in over two years.| Los Angeles Times
Kaiser Permanente agreed to a $200-million settlement after canceling tens of thousands of mental health appointments and failing to provide timely care, California regulators said.| Los Angeles Times
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is pushing public transit and remote work to help keep 2028 Olympics traffic manageable, but LA28 is planning for some car use.| Los Angeles Times
The next stage of repairs along the Rocky Creek Bridge "slip-out" on Highway 1 in Big Sur will again close the two-lane road, but the closures will occur only overnight, according to the California Department of Transportation.| Los Angeles Times
Stabilization efforts are expected to begin Tuesday on the stretch of Highway 1 in Big Sur where a chunk of roadway fell into the ocean last month.| Los Angeles Times
Officials are urging residents near the landslide to evacuate as more rain approaches, warning that emergency vehicles will not be able to access the area.| Los Angeles Times
Communities and businesses stuck between two landslides on Highway 1 in Big Sur will again be cut off for at least two days, as officials temporarily halt the convoys Thursday and Friday for weather.| Los Angeles Times
Caltrans has shut down the southbound road on Highway 1, letting only essential workers and locals through on the northbound side.| Los Angeles Times
Highway 1 is closed indefinitely from Palo Colorado Road to Rocky Creek Bridge, the California Department of Transportation said on social media after a new landslide eroded part of the roadway.| Los Angeles Times
Proposition 35 would spell out how the tax on health insurance providers like Anthem Blue Cross and L.A. Care, known as managed care organizations, can be used.| Los Angeles Times
Proposition 34 would limit non-patient spending by certain healthcare organizations. The Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation is the target.| Los Angeles Times
In an epic data breach, hackers claim to have taken 2.9 billion personal records from National Public Data. Most of the data are leaked online.| Los Angeles Times
LAPD officers in riot gear arrested 93 people on trespassing charges as they cleared an encampment at the center of the USC campus that formed in protest against the Israel-Hamas war.| Los Angeles Times
Asna Tabassum was selected as USC valedictorian and offered a slot to speak at graduation. The university canceled her speech after pro-Israel groups criticized her Instagram.| Los Angeles Times
USC cites safety reasons in canceling the upcoming graduation speech of pro-Palestinian valedictorian from speaking onstage at her ceremony.| Los Angeles Times
The video, taken over several hours Friday into Saturday morning by a NOAA satellite, shows dramatic plumes of smoke from the Park fire.| Los Angeles Times
'We lost everything — it’s all gone,' a Havilah resident said as the Borel fire in Kern County devastated the mining town.| Los Angeles Times
California prison officials announced they will move the last 457 condemned prisoners out of San Quentin's death row by summer. They will be transferred to other state prisons and housed in the general population.| Los Angeles Times
The family of a La Puente man who was shot and injured by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies while carrying a metal paint roller is planning to sue, lawyers say.| Los Angeles Times
UC Berkeley professor Erwin Chemerinsky and his wife, professor Catherine Fisk, got into a heated argument with a pro-Palestinian protester during a dinner at their home.| Los Angeles Times
An L.A. County judge ruled Senate Bill 9 unconstitutional in a case brought by five Southern California cities. If upheld on appeal, it could restore single-family zoning in big cities across the state.| Los Angeles Times
New amendments to the California Journalism Preservation Act aim to make it more like a similar law in Canada.| Los Angeles Times
Police in riot gear arrested protesters who set up an encampment and blocked the main entrance to the UC Santa Cruz campus. The university said it gave warnings for weeks.| Los Angeles Times
A coalition backing a tough-on-crime statewide ballot initiative to toughen penalties for retail theft and some drug offenses on Thursday submitted more than 900,000 voter signatures backing the measure, a strong indicator that it may come before California voters in November.| Los Angeles Times
The governor said he can relate to business owners and other residents angered by waves of smash-and-grab thefts from California stores.| Los Angeles Times
Representatives of Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani accused his interpreter of engaging in a 'massive theft' of the ballplayer’s funds to place bets with an allegedly illegal bookmaker.| Los Angeles Times
California is set to approve regulations for transforming wastewater into pure drinking water. Experts say the highly treated water isn’t 'toilet-to-tap.'| Los Angeles Times
