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When California Gov. Jerry Brown proposed the first state budget of his third term in 2011, it was a gloomy affair. The recession lingered over the nation’s economy like a nasty head cold, and California was $27 billion in the hole. Brown’s message at the time was, appropriately, one of belt tightening.

The northern spotted owl has had many adversaries.

Three decades ago it was loggers, whose forays into the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest threatened the shy creatures, which have zero tolerance for the clatter of development.

Then it was the more aggressive and adaptable barred owls, which...

To the editor: It’s worth remembering just how straightforward the Equal Rights Amendment is. The entire text has three sentences. (“Unbelievably, women still don't have equal rights in the Constitution,” Opinion, Jan. 5)

At least 17 people have died in the flooding and mudslides that hit Montecito this week, and officials fear they may find more victims.

Good news, urbanites! New research suggests that you don’t have to leave the city to reap some of the benefits of being in nature.

Hollywood and the record industry converged on a winner this week in Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s music for the P.T. Barnum movie musical “The Greatest Showman.”

To the editor: I work as a property manager for homeowner associations and have seen how the city’s new trash franchise system is hurting our communities. (“L.A.’s new recycling program has more than 28,000 complaints for missed trash pickup,” Jan. 7)

Five women accuse James Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior By Daniel Miller and Amy Kaufman, The Los Angeles Times Jan 11, 2018 James Franco. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) It should have been a pure moment of triumph for James Franco. He collected one of Hollywood's...

The House faces a crucial choice Thursday over how to extend a program that is credited with disrupting terrorist plots but also has taken a toll on Americans’ privacy.

The Trump administration cleared the way Thursday for states to impose work requirements on many Americans who depend on Medicaid, the mammoth government health insurance program for the poor.

In the Trump era, the desire for great sex appears to have taken a back seat to fears about lousy pillow talk.

In Southern California, water and fire can be a lethal combination. Just ask anyone who fled before December’s Thomas inferno only to evacuate again when rains slammed down on the burn areas, triggering deadly mudslides.

In a span of 30 days in 2001, El Salvador endured two devastating earthquakes, the first a magnitude 7.7 followed by a magnitude 6.6. Hillsides crumbled and swept away neighborhoods. Houses disintegrated. Roads buckled. In all, the two quakes killed 1,156 people and injured 8,122 more while destroying...

Now that the bowl season and College Football Playoff have concluded, college sports fans are shifting their attention from football to basketball in anticipation of March Madness.

The doctor told Renee Gao’s parents that the tumor in their teenager’s chest wasn’t disappearing. The girl would need a costly operation that could leave her sterile — if she survived.

At East Valley Road, a deafening growl in the dark announced to all who stayed that they made the wrong call. A three-story wall of mud, rock and timber tore down Montecito Creek faster than any human could run.

Five women have accused actor James Franco, 39, of behavior they found to be inappropriate or sexually exploitative. In some cases, the women told the Los Angeles Times they believed Franco could offer them career advancement, and acquiesced to his wishes even when they were uncomfortable.

The announced retirement this week of two endangered Southern California congressmen, Republicans Darrell Issa and Ed Royce, could signal something larger. If a Democratic wave is building, the swell may be gathering along the Pacific Coast.

Teams of rescuers waded through hillsides blanketed by mud and debris looking for victims of mudflows that killed at least 17 people as the full scope of California’s deadliest flooding event in several decades came into grim focus.

Jim Rossetto, 13, Jerry White, 12, and Louis Kolisar, 13, were rescued from the Los Angeles River on Jan. 23, 1952. A Los Angeles Times story the next morning explains:

A complex proposal to help Californians evade a provision in President Trump’s federal tax plan faces key questions even as its author is working toward the bill’s speedy passage: How much would the plan ease Californians’ new tax burdens, and would the Trump administration let it happen?

Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled a $190.3 billion spending plan on Jan. 10. Here are some of its more important components.

It seemed like Gov. Jerry Brown was tying up loose ends and starting to pack as he unveiled his 16th and final state budget proposal Wednesday.

Rams: In the Jan. 10 Sports section, a photo caption with an article about the Rams getting a new quarterbacks coach misidentified the coach pictured with quarterback Jared Goff. It was outgoing quarterbacks coach Greg Olson, not head coach Sean McVay.