Former President Trump, opening up the California Republican Party’s fall convention, assailed Gov. Gavin Newsom, “California radicals” and “tech tyrants” on Friday in a rambling speech that drifted from mandated vaccines for schoolchildren to...

Dianne Feinstein, who surmounted an abusive childhood and early political failures to become the first woman to represent California in the Senate and a central figure in the rise of women to national political...

HANFORD —  As dark clouds massed over Kings County on the chilly morning of March 18, scores of panicked farmers and landowners packed the Board of Supervisors chambers in Hanford for a third day of...

Three of my favorite things came together as I read Erin Zhurkin’s debut novel, “Plus-Size in Paris.” First, having lived in Pau, in the Pyrenees, and Paris for two very important years of my...

Barring any significant and unforeseen pushback from the voting members of the Writers Guild of America, it would seem that the 146-day writers’ strike is at an end. Sunday night, negotiators for the WGA...

Anything was possible. Adidas executives knew that back in 2013, when they signed the artist formerly known as Kanye West away from Nike. Companies shouldn’t get away with feigning shock after a provocative artist...

Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of Pacoima, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock. Pale dust rose around them as they...

WASHINGTON —  College presidents and admission experts are expecting a significant increase in applications at historically Black colleges and universities following this summer’s Supreme Court decision outlawing race-based affirmative action policies. At a time of...

After a summer that saw many of California’s top home insurers pull back from the state market, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced Thursday that he struck a deal with the insurance industry to encourage...

In elementary school, Christina Martin loved the bright colors and whimsical animals of artist-entrepreneur Lisa Frank. There were leopard prints and animals with big eyes, dolphins jumping out of a teal or purple ocean....