The L.A. Times Features team shares the places that have helped them amid uncertainty, be it a hot spring, cool desert, ...

CalMatters reports on the alarming issue of home development in highly flammable areas in the state of California.

Significant progress is being made on Anaheim’s “OCVIBE” entertainment district, an effort to spruce up one of the premier tourism destinations in California during what ...

Sonoma State plans to end NCAA sports and close six departments to address a $24 million budget deficit. Several CSU campuses anticipate multimillion-dollar cuts, potentially leading to fewer course ...

Fresh weather model data points to a wet weekend ahead for Northern California and the Bay Area. Forecasts are calling for significantly higher rainfall totals than previously predicted along with ...

California cities made the top and bottom of the list for property crime according to a new study that looked at 425 small ...

An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.

For a time, California's insurance system was maybe workable. Big, destructive fires used to be rarer, so the insurance ...

The University of California Botanical Garden, hidden in the Berkeley Hills, is an oasis for tranquility and horticulture. A ...

In the hills of Berkeley, Susan Filter and Peter Koch's colorful home is bursting with some 7,000 books and a passion for ...

Thornburg Village, also known as the “Normandy Village,” is like finding a unicorn in your backyard – unexpected, magical, ...