Call it generational evolution, a slow but inexorable force. With Los Angeles, it began after a series of dry spells. For most of the 20th century, through droughts and floods, California clung to ...

The bodies of Los Angeles-area men Matthew Schoenecker and Valentino Creus, as well as New Yorker Matthew Anthony, were discovered at Rattlesnake Falls in Northern California.

California's aquifers gained an estimated 2.2 million acre-feet of water during the last water year. Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration has been promoting efforts to replenish groundwater.

Ian James is a reporter who focuses on water and climate change in California and the West. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2021, he was an environment reporter at the Arizona Republic and ...

The above-ground pool recall follows the drowning deaths of nine children between the ages of 22 months and 3 years old after they gained access to the pools.