James Rainey

The leading Republican candidate to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in the recall election has blocked access for one of the state’s biggest papers.

Recall candidate Larry Elder slammed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s failures at wildfire prevention, while saying nothing about the role of climate change.

As a talk radio host, California recall candidate Larry Elder called Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 ‘divine intervention.’ Now he sounds more tepid about the former president.

The number of those testing positive for the coronavirus in Los Angeles County was even higher over the New Year’s weekend than it was last winter.

A spokesman for Caruso, who is weighing a run for L.A. mayor, says the billionaire real estate developer has fully recovered.

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso responded to an opponent’s challenge by declaring how much he paid in taxes. But, unlike most other major candidates, he refused to release his full returns.

L.A. mayoral candidate Rick Caruso served two decades ago on the Police Commission. He supported replacing LAPD Chief Bernard Parks with William Bratton.

Our memoir-laden era is heavy with tales of how luminaries became who they are. No member of the Me Generation, the top editor of the Washington Post during the Donald Trump era figured he had plenty to write about without returning to his Tampa, Fla., childhood or his formative journalistic years on the Left Coast. In “Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post,” Martin Baron eschews personal ruminations to show readers his years at the top of the journalistic pyramid. We see Bar…

Chicago in the late 1970s and 1980s overflowed with a cadre of smart, keen-eyed photojournalists who would go on to win national acclaim, taking unforgettable pictures from their hometown and hot spots around the world. They worked for the Chicago Tribune, the Sun-Times and other newspapers, competing fiercely for the best images before adjourning for liquid therapy at the Billy Goat Tavern, a storied journalism watering hole. More than holding her own in this remarkable company was a young phot…

To the native Wintu people it was Bohem Puyuik, the “Big Rise,” and no wonder. Mt. Shasta towered above everything else, her loins delivering the natural springs and snowmelt that birthed a great river. The Sacramento River provided such an abundance of food that the Wintu and many neighboring tribes — the Pit River, Yana, Nomlaki and others — had little to fight over. They thrived in pre-colonial times, on waters that ran silver with salmon, forests thick with game and oaks heavy with acorns. B…