In the San Joaquin Valley, the homeless are being evicted in the middle of the pandemic.
What the state can learn from coal’s decline — before the oil and gas industry goes off a cliff.
Shaka King’s riveting new film looks at the charismatic Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and the man who betrayed him.
What happens when pandemic fighters are at risk themselves with preexisting medical conditions?
Since 2002, USC has spent more than $550 million on its police force. Community critics say armed officers feel more like an occupying force than a security necessity.
Lowest-paid workers take the worst hit while pandemic continues its damage.
An improbable vanguard of poor people is “reclaiming” vacant homes — forcing policymakers to rethink affordable housing strategies.
Translators claim working within whisper distance of defendants makes them especially vulnerable to the coronavirus.
Gov. Gavin Newsom says schools can reopen safely, but many campuses can’t meet the state’s most recent guidelines for being open.
A look at one of the country’s largest COVID-19 vaccination centers.
Different sets of construction regulations allow California’s charters to build without environmental oversight.
An interview with Shenita Anderson, an ER nurse at L.A.’s for-profit Olympia Medical Center, which is closing despite the COVID-19 crisis.
Critics of the state’s move to an age-based priority system say it defies statistical evidence that workplace transmission is a major source of the virus’s spread.
New numbers show that just 29% of the people receiving vaccines are Latinos, who account for 52% of L.A. County’s COVID deaths.
More than 1,300 county residents who lacked housing died last year.
But not everyone in the state is rankled by Joe Biden’s executive order.
The California governor has so far approved more than 8,000 fossil fuel permits on private and state lands.
How much retail shopping contributed to January’s surge is hard to know. Critics charge the county’s policy has been fatally flawed.
Oilfield dangers aren’t confined to the drilling pad — many Permian Basin homes have pipes carrying gas, oil and contaminated water running right through their yards.
A notorious pollution site may be paved over and repurposed for new industrial activity.