In a significant win for beach access rights in California, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a Silicon Valley billionaire’s appeal to keep a beach to himself. The decision caps an all-out legal battle over a small stretch of sand in San Mateo County known as Martins Beach. What began as…

Hope can be plucked from a heap of dirt with gentle hands. A gold-rimmed teacup with a chip in its pedestal. A pink vest knitted for a niece. A canvas book bag carrying a bracelet and a headband. Once as brown as the angry earth that barreled down the hillsides of Montecito, hundreds of possessions…

How the proposed expansion of the Diamond Jamboree shopping center in Irvine will look at night.(Sketch courtesy Diamond Development Group) Popular Diamond Jamboree shopping center in Irvine will get an 11-store expansion come 2020. (Sketch courtesy Diamond Development Group) Sound The gallery will resume inseconds Popular Diamond Jamboree shopping center in Irvine’s expansion will add…

By Nico Savidge and Daniel J. Willis, EdSource Part one of a special report from EdSource revealing the extent of lead contamination in water in schools across California where water has been tested. Gaps in a new California law requiring schools to test their drinking water for lead could leave children vulnerable to the toxic…

By Nico Savidge and Daniel J. Willis, EdSource Part two of a special report from EdSource revealing the extent of lead contamination in water in schools across California where water has been tested. Lead testing at Miramonte Elementary in Los Angeles Unified last January found six water outlets over the state and federal limit for…

By Nico Savidge and Daniel J. Willis, EdSource Part three of a special report from EdSource revealing the extent of lead contamination in water in schools across California where water has been tested. Two years ago, McClymonds High School in Oakland found alarmingly high lead levels in water coming from a locker room shower. Water…

On Oct. 1, 1910, a bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building killing 20 and injuring about 100.

Public access to nearly every beach on the California coast will remain secure as the U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday, Oct. 1,  it would not hear a challenge to the state Coastal Act. The 1976 law ensures that property owners cannot privatize beaches by preventing public entry. The lawsuit focused on Martins Beach, a remote beach…

Dozens of protesters joined survivors of sexual assault in Santa Ana on Sunday, Sept. 30  to support Christine Blasey Ford and denounce the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Roughly 60 demonstrators gathered at Sasscer Park in response to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into Blasey Ford’s allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted…

Staying on a board while riding to shore can be ruff. But these four-legged surfer pups are pros, showing off their hot-dogging wave-riding style for a crowd in Huntington Beach on Saturday as part of the Surf City Surf Dog event. Homer Henard, of Santa Cruz, surfs with his dog Skyler during the annual Surf…