New: Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a package of legislation aimed at protecting Californians from extreme heat, including establishing a statewide warning system by 2025 and conducting a study on the effects of sizzling temperatures on workers. latimes.com/california/sto…
Under Assembly Bill 2238, the California Environmental Protection Agency will create a system to rank heat events, including severity and health dangers, to help local governments take action to protect the vulnerable. latimes.com/environment/st…
“This week’s unprecedented heat wave is a painful reminder of the costs and impacts of climate change — and it won’t be the last,” Newsom said in a statement Friday. latimes.com/california/sto…
Fashion designer Tommy Bogo is a storyteller at his core. Since he started designing by collection, his ability to create narratives through clothing has crystalized — most potently around the pandemic. latimes.com/lifestyle/imag…
His Fall 2020 collection took aim at the ways we adopted a freelancer-type mentality in the pandemic. Fleece-lined cargos anchored a Comfort Zone capsule, designed for maximum coziness from outside to inside. latimes.com/lifestyle/imag…
Conceived while he moved from coast to coast, pieces from Lost & Found featured thrifted vintage fabrics and heavy wools and knitwears representing the security and stability that emerged through his travels. latimes.com/lifestyle/imag…
Covelo residents who spoke to The Times asked that their names not be used because they were fearful of the growers around them. One woman’s water well now runs dry each May, the aquifer tapped by massive greenhouses that surround her house on 3 sides. latimes.com/california/sto…
Other residents described finding a cannabis worker, unpaid and stranded in the hills, weeping and afraid his employer would return to kill him. latimes.com/california/sto…
During a recent raid of an illegal farm, sheriff’s deputies encountered two workers from Mexico who said they had been held there against their will. latimes.com/california/sto…
A journalist had been murdered, apparently for speaking truth to power, and it seemed to many in the news business to epitomize an increasingly perilous environment for their work. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
German’s stabbing death outside his home last week would make him the 12th journalist murdered in America in the last 30 years in connection with their work, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Despite greater protections in the U.S., a variety of journalism trade groups report a significant recent increase in threats and violence directed at reporters. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
The incoming storm could dump rain on the fire — which would greatly help firefighting — but the system could also remain east of the flames, which would instead blow major winds toward the wildfire.
Illegal cannabis’ thorniest challenges fall on overwhelmed local law enforcement agencies and code enforcement departments, ill-equipped to contend with criminal networks behind the growth.
The rugged forests and valleys of Mendocino County, deep in the heart of California’s famed Emerald Triangle, renowned for the quality and quantity of its weed production, have an estimated 5,000 illegal cannabis farms. latimes.com/california/sto…
The grows range from homestead farms to dangerous drug-trade operations, such as one where deputies this spring found an AK-47 modified for full-automatic fire. latimes.com/california/sto…