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If you’d like to explore a region that's largely untouched by mass tourism, set your sights on Papua New Guinea, one of the world's last great frontiers.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Sept. 6, and here’s what’s happening across California:

To the editor: Jill Bialosky’s piece “Can poetry save your life?” was very meaningful to me.

The documentary filmmaker talks about the thousands of conversations and 10 years of research that went into making his film on the Vietnam War.

To the editor: While I seldom agree with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-San Francisco) on anything, she is in the stateswoman category for advising patience in dealing with President Trump. Liberals who disagree need to consider her background, solidly grounded in the chaos of politics in the 1970s....

When Hallie Meyers-Shyer set out to make her first film, she knew it would instantly be compared to her mother’s movies. After all, the 30-year-old’s debut has nearly all of the trappings of a Nancy Meyers picture: It’s a romantic comedy about beautiful people who live in a lovely Brentwood mansion...

The World War II rescue tale “Dunkirk” dominated the box office in China last week, building on its international success.

President Trump’s decision to phase out protections for hundreds of thousands of people brought to the U.S. as children — and make Congress come up with a solution — creates shock waves. Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:

Imagine if agents of the federal government showed up at your door and said you had to leave your friends, your family, your job and your country and move to whatever place your ancestors came from.

At President Trump’s rallies, he’s usually flanked by a pair of big blue placards displaying his administration’s proudest boast. “Promises Made,” says one. “Promises Kept,” says the other.

The Rohingya Muslim minority of Myanmar has long suffered discrimination, persecution and violence. But as a new horrific wave of brutality has swept over Rakhine state, where most of the country’s Rohingya live in poverty, the question that has been asked over and over must now be shouted: When...

Just over a month into his presidency, Donald Trump strode into a hotel ballroom for the annual assemblage of the most fervent Republican activists and conservative leaders in the country and declared his takeover of the Republican Party — on behalf of the “forgotten men and the forgotten women.”

When Hurricane Harvey flooded Nikki Fields’ house last week, she knew she did not want to abandon her home of 16 years.

There's plenty of evidence in recent memory to back up the conclusion that Congress seems allergic to most tough votes. And few topics are more politically combustible than illegal immigration.

Seeking to capitalize on a chorus of condemnation of North Korea’s latest nuclear test, the Trump administration rightly has been trying to rally international support for additional sanctions, while moving to reassure South Korea of U.S. support for its security.

Michael Daher and his son, Mark Daher, have invested in dozens of well-known start-ups and funds in the L.A. region.

Brazil’s prosecutors broke the world’s biggest corruption scandal wide open with the help of one man.

Sporting new uniforms and gold badges, the Los Angeles Police Department’s 1923 parade was led by Chief Louis D. Oaks and the Police Band. Also in the parade were mounted traffic officers, motorcycle officers and police ambulances.

Planned Parenthood, the embattled nonprofit health provider that specializes in reproductive health, has won the 2017 Lasker Award for public service.

The most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricane in recorded history has made its first landfall in the islands of the northeast Caribbean.

With every 96-mph fastball delivered with ease, Garrett Richards strengthened the Angels’ playoff dreams. With every 90-mph slider spun out of reach, Richards supplied hope. But the end came quick, and for the next week, until he’s back on a major league mound, that hope will have to suffice.

Four Alameda County sheriff’s deputies were charged Tuesday in a jail abuse scandal that involved directing an inmate in the Santa Rita Jail to attack other inmates with feces and urine, officials said.

The preseason is officially over and the Rams will open the regular season on Sunday (1:05 p.m., Ch. 2) when they host the Andrew Luck-less Indianapolis Colts at the Coliseum.

It was a great day for American women’s tennis, certainly, with Sloane Stephens and Venus Williams each winning third-set tiebreakers Tuesday to steer them into all-American semifinal matchup at the U.S. Open. And with CoCo Vandeweghe and Madison Keys set to take the stage Wednesday for their respective...

The Angels set a dubious Southern California standard for collapse in 1995. They coughed up an 11-game division lead in six weeks.