Outside Lands creators bet on music festivals to help revitalize San Francisco
Last weekend marked the 16th year of Outside Lands, the San Francisco music and arts festival that has become a…
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California seizes illegal cannabis packages that look like candy
Packaging discovered at downtown Los Angeles businesses featured a variety of confectionery creations, each advertised as having a hint of…
Taking a law-and-order approach to clearing Los Angeles' homeless encampments
August 12, 2024 3 am Pacific Time To the editor:Los Angeles’ response to the problem of street encampments has been…
Newsom threatens to take money away from counties over homeless
With television cameras rolling and traffic humming in the background on a busy San Fernando Valley freeway, Gov. Gavin Newsom…
Opinion: When it comes to the US-Mexico border, can people think beyond politics?
I wasn't breaking any laws when I set out to leave gallons of water on Bureau of Land Management land…
Comment: Tourists have turned Europe into a nightmare. I was part of the problem
Ten years ago, in an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, Rick Steves Recommended readers To get them to…
Carmel-by-the-Sea, a town without addresses, will add house numbers
After decades of resistance, Carmel-by-the-Sea is on the verge of… ADDRESS Some of the biggest frustrations of its residents. Quite…
I had dinner with a stranger. Would we have had a fairytale connection?
I’m on my way home when a man, who is starting to gray and is very handsome, stops me. “Excuse…
Biden's troubles could also cost Democrats control of Congress
As if Democrats didn't have enough to keep them up at night, here's something even more terrifying. Visions of a…
Ranchers and farmers brace for 'biblical' grasshopper invasion in Northern California
When a torrent of grasshoppers devoured more than 100,000 acres of grassland and pasture three years ago in the northeast…