Los Angeles Times

California’s effort to plug abandoned, chemical-spewing oil wells gets $35-million boost

Politics
Amanda Smith

California will receive more than $35 million in federal funding to help address the scourge of abandoned oil wells that are leaking ...

Letters to Sports: Lakers need to clean house after playoff exit?

Sports
Daniel Miller

Let me get this straight. The Lakers, coached by Darvin Ham, are eliminated in the first round by the defending NBA champs ...

Another strong outing by Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Dodgers’ victory

Sports
Daniel Miller

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is starting to give the Dodgers that feeling. The feeling that every time he takes the ball, the team will get ...

Walker Buehler shows some rust but overcomes it in his Dodgers return

Sports
Daniel Miller

It took all of seven pitches for Dodgers right-hander Walker Buehler to exceed the expectations of manager Dave Roberts, who prefaced Buehler’s ...

Tyler Glasnow dominates and Max Muncy hits three home runs in Dodgers’ blowout win

Sports
Daniel Miller

Max Muncy rounds the bases after hitting his third home run in the Dodgers’ 11-2 win over the Atlanta Braves at Dodger ...

Father Greg Boyle of Homeboy Industries to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Politics
Amanda Smith

Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit Catholic priest who founded the Homeboy Industries gang intervention program in Los Angeles, will receive the Presidential ...

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument expanding by more than 100,000 acres

Politics
Amanda Smith

President Biden on Thursday will expand the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly a third in an action that is being ...

Inside the far-right plan to use civil rights law to disrupt the 2024 election

Politics
Amanda Smith

(Illustration by Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times) At a diner just off the freeway north of Sacramento, a mostly white crowd ...

Many O.C. residents skeptical of election results, potentially swaying key races, poll finds

Politics
Amanda Smith

Alex Lopez doesn’t contest that Joe Biden was elected president in 2020. His concern lies with how those results came to be. ...

Chuckwalla National Monument would protect swath of California desert and preserve a sacred land

Politics
Amanda Smith

Thomas Tortez Jr. leads a group across a gravelly wash in Painted Canyon, at the spot where his Cahuilla tribal ancestors once ...