California Today

Here are readers’ choices for some of the books published since 2000 that are most representative of the state.

An enormous overpass in Southern California is “more than just a bridge,” an official said.

In many places, a scorching Independence Day led into an even hotter weekend.

Fireworks touch off blazes in California that cause millions of dollars in damage each year.

Several cities in the state will top 110 degrees over the next few days.

The budget includes $12 million for reparations measures for the state’s Black residents.

The county is investing $5 million to partner with a nonprofit and wipe out $500 million in debt for residents. The program is expected to start later this year.

Subjects include safety at work and in bars, and the cost of renting a home or buying a gun.

My colleague Emily Cochrane takes us behind the scenes of the hotline, which receives as many as 3,000 calls and messages a day.

New hobbies, graduation ceremonies and more.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and some states banned abortions altogether, many Americans began crossing state lines to get one.

Businesses are fuming and cities are exhaling after the State Supreme Court blocked a ballot measure at the heart of a big fight in Sacramento.

More than two dozen wildfires have ignited in California this week, and experts warn of an extreme season ahead.

The strange “no U-turn” signs along Griffith Park Boulevard in Silver Lake were erected in the 1990s to ward off gay men.

The State Assembly passed a bill banning colleges from considering family ties to donors or alumni in admissions decisions.

Some lawmakers are trying to carve out an exception for restaurant owners, who say simply raising prices without context would hurt their business.

The state’s various programs enroll 10,000 service members a year.

Big birthdays, new family members and spectacular adventures.

The young writer came across a tale in the Sierra Nevada foothills that would bring him national attention.

Dos Rios, near Modesto in the Central Valley, offers new green space in a part of the state that has little of it.

A judge dismissed some state charges against the assailant who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s house in 2022, but he still faces life in prison if convicted.

California lawmakers are considering a bill that would require all new cars to be equipped to signal drivers when they exceed the speed limit by more than 10 m.p.h.

City officials decided to block testing of an experimental technology to fight global warming, even though experts hired by the city found that it posed no health risk to residents.

Inland parts of the state are expected to reach triple-digit temperatures this week.

Graduate teaching assistants and researchers plan to walk off the job at U.C. Santa Barbara, U.C. San Diego and U.C. Irvine, a week before final exams.

Officials of the conservancy that owns most of the island say they will try other ways to remove nonnative deer that are harming the ecosystem.

The answer is probably yes.

The New York Times mapped where and how the number of fatal shootings in the United States has grown since 2020.

We’re adding love letters and cautionary tales to our Golden State reading list.

A tug of war in San Francisco over whether to teach algebra in eighth or ninth grade gets at wider national questions about serving all students fairly.