2025 - Page 9 of 145

A wide view of a park with palm trees, small soccer goals, and people scattered around the field, including someone pushing a shopping cart filled with bags along a curved walkway in the late afternoon light.

Commentary

Crime is down and kids are back, but drugs still plague Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park

After a year of effort — and despite ICE’s military theatrics — L.A.’s iconic MacArthur Park is just beginning to regain some of its mojo. It still struggles with drugs and homelessness, though.

By

Jim Newton

• December 11, 2025

A shirtless person holds up a sign that reads, “We are a nation of immigrants founded by immigrants,” while standing in the middle of a street filled with other protesters holding signs or flags from Latin American countries.

Commentary

When deportation was called repatriation: The US once expelled 1.8 million people to Mexico

Like today, Americans in the 1930s were reeling from economic hard times. Leaders made Latinos scapegoats and deported immigrants and some US citizens.

By Sylvia Zamora • December 11, 2025

Two people in suits stand at a podium during a press conference. The person speaking gestures with one hand while the other person stands beside them, listening. The California state seal is visible on the podium, and a blue curtain forms the backdrop.

Investigation

40,000 people died on California roads. State leaders looked away

‘If these people's children had been killed by a drunk driver, there is no way they would be objecting to this.’

By

Robert Lewis

and

Lauren Hepler

• December 11, 2025

An aerial view of a river surrounded by farmland.

Commentary

Trump sides with agriculture again in California’s neverending water wars

Trump pushed changes at the Central Valley Project — a set of reservoirs and canals supplying water to Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys — pleasing farm groups.

By

Dan Walters

• December 11, 2025

An aerial view of the Colorado River as it winds through grass fields on farmland with clouds reflecting in the river from the sky. A mountain range is shown in the background, with rays of light hitting it at sunset.

Environment

California cities pay a lot for water; some agricultural districts get it for free

Even among experts the cost of water supplies is hard to pin down. A new study reveals huge differences in what water suppliers for cities and farms pay for water from rivers and reservoirs in California, Arizona and Nevada.

By

Rachel Becker

and

Natasha Uzcátegui-Liggett

• December 11, 2025

K-12 Education

Rural California gets a lifeline in school funding as Congress restores money it cut

A century-old program pays for schools, roads and other services in 39 California counties.

By

Carolyn Jones

• December 10, 2025

Law enforcement officials— dressed in camouflage riot gear and holding clear shields with the "California National Guard" on them — stand guard in front of a building as protesters stand nearby holding signs and flags.

Justice

Judge orders Trump to end National Guard deployment, calls LA mission ‘profoundly un-American’

The new ruling against the Trump administration’s use of the National Guard in Los Angeles comes as courts are considering other challenges to his deployment of troops to liberal cities, such as Portland and Chicago.

By

Nigel Duara

• December 10, 2025

An aerial view of a gray transportation ramp under construction. Building materials can be seen laying on the ground nearby.

Commentary

Cap and trade gets a new name and a new mission beyond cutting carbon pollution

Revenues from the state's carbon emissions auction will be used for high speed rail, wildfire suppression and legislators' discretionary spending.

By

Dan Walters

• December 10, 2025

A view of two silhouettes of students walking through a dark hallway of a school with light shining through a doorway at the end of the hallway. One silhouette holds a lunch box and a water bottle in one hand.

Commentary

California’s schools can’t afford to cut counselors. They keep kids alive in dangerous times

With suicide and violence stalking students, counselors are often the first to notice kids in trouble. They're also among the first to lose their jobs to budget cuts.

By Ayo Banjo • December 9, 2025

A correctional officer keeps watch over a prisoner in an undisclosed California medical facility near San Francisco on May 18, 2021. AP Photo/Noah Berger

Justice

As California prisons face ‘wave’ of sex assault lawsuits, new audit highlights slow discipline

A new report on discipline in California prisons highlights slow handling of several sex assault cases filed against officers. In lawsuits, women have accused 83 officers of sexual misconduct.

By

Nigel Duara

• December 9, 2025