Seth Liss

Matthew Perry's death. Tropical Storm Hilary. A mass shooting at a Lunar New Year festival: These were some of California's biggest news events. But there were bright spots too.

Editor’s note: The Wild is all about featuring a variety of exciting voices from Southern California’s outdoors scene. For the next several weeks, we’re featuring guest writers (whom we’ve dubbed “wilders” ) from around The Times who are eager to share their adventures with you. This week’s guest wilder is Seth Liss, director of audience engagement, who lives in Long Beach and likes to swim, hike and camp in his free time. He follows the NBA, listens to music and makes pizza. He aspires to do mo…

The ordinance would require Sacramento to offer two different forms of shelter. Plus: L.A.’s top Catholic goes off on ‘woke’ culture, social justice movements.

Plus: Unvaccinated adolescents have been the driving force behind a stubbornly persistent Delta surge in Britain, a potential warning sign for California.

Also, Travis Scott, kids vaccinations, Biden infrastructure and feds subpoena Baldwin Park officials over pot licensing.

A Los Angeles Times reconstruction of the events leading up to Hutchins’ death has uncovered new details about the shooting.

Also, experts predict the legal fallout from the Alec Baldwin prop gun shooting

Here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today: Hollywood crews union reaches a deal with studios, averting a strike The world’s mightiest media companies bowed this weekend to demands of Hollywood worker bees: the lighting and sound technicians, carpenters, makeup artists, set decorators, costume designers and others who work behind the scenes on film and TV sets. It was a rare display of muscle for the industry’s “below-the-line” production crews, who were threatening to stage a devastating str…

This aging infrastructure will likely spark more disasters in the years ahead

Crews raced Sunday to contain the damage from a major oil spill off the Orange County coast that left crude spoiling beaches, killing fish and birds and threatening local wetlands.

Los Angeles County health officials have identified hundreds of coronavirus outbreaks at police and fire agencies since the start of the pandemic.

There was one small island in the middle of this vast state where the recall election was a nail-biter.

One of the few areas where Republicans and Democrats can find any agreement is that they are tired of the identity politics.

Just days before California voters decide whether to push Democrat Gavin Newsom from office, a trailer off Golden Chain Highway was mostly a shrine to former President Trump.

Smoke from the fire has caused record-breaking air pollution amid anxiety that the fire could reach resort communities.

California regulators have launched an investigation into whether recall election gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder failed to properly disclose his income sources, a spokesman with the Fair Political Practices Commission confirmed Sunday.

The Taliban takeover has left American officials concerned about the potential for a rise in terrorist threats against the United States.

The Dixie fire became the second-largest wildfire in California history and now ranks among the state’s most destructive.

President Biden has formally acknowledged that the systematic killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians during the fall of the Ottoman Empire in modern-day Turkey more than a century ago was genocide. Armenian Americans, including the large diaspora in Southern California, have fought for decades to get the federal government to identify the slaughter as a genocide. Now that it has officially happened, we would like to hear what this means to you.

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