Workers who were deemed essential during the coronavirus pandemic and publicly praised for continuing to work in-person are now fighting for permanent improvements to working conditions, wages and benefits as safety protections are lifted and they still...

Covid has affected American schools, hospitals and businesses. But libraries -- which often serve people who have nowhere else to turn -- have had to respond in unprecedented ways.

California officials had argued that Trump's decision to cancel funding for rail project "arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion."

Police reform talks hinge on a legal doctrine that protects police in civil suits. Its fate will have consequences for policing going forward.

Readers who shared with The Times back in May 2020 their vision of a post-pandemic California update their letters to account for everything that's happened since then.