The Latest Breaking News from California

LOS ANGELES — For the second straight year, the University of California shattered records for first-year fall applications, as the elimination of standardized test requirements and greater online outreach paid dividends in drawing the largest and most diverse applicant pool ever despite pandemic challenges, according to preliminary data released Thursday.

LOS ANGELES — As omicron fades, communities across California are continuing to ease masking rules.

Scott Peterson’s chance for a new trial in the murder of his pregnant wife 20 years ago hinges on whether a California juror who helped convict him was biased

Gold Country Growers, Inc.has launched a compliant auction and inventory liquidation service for licensed cannabis businesses in California through the launch of the Cannabis Auctions web-platform. The launch of Cannabis Auctions brings the auction buying and selling format to the legal cannabis industry for the first time ever.

Lawmakers are proposing to strip neighborhood activists of the legal tools they've used to freeze the university's student population.

In this edition of Inverse Daily, read how humans and soot are harming Antarctica, the unexpected link between California wildfires and increased water, and more.

Nabis, a fully-licensed cannabis wholesale platform with the largest portfolio of cannabis brands in the world, supplying 100% of California’s dispensaries and delivery services, plans to apply for a distribution license in New York.

LOS ANGELES — An alarming new United Nations report warns that the number of extreme wildfires is expected to increase 50% globally by the end of the century, and that governments are largely unprepared for the burgeoning crisis.

LOS ANGELES — Nearly two-thirds of California voters, including a majority of parents, support mask and vaccine mandates in K-12 schools, according to a poll conducted this month by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley and co-sponsored by the L.A. Times.

Input goes to the cannabis convention with social media stars Marc and Craig Wasserman.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Lufino Reyes Mejorado was a good guy, his family says. The kind of guy who would pull over to help out another driver with a flat tire.