Aaron Barnhart

Jobs numbers are up but a recovery still looks rocky as we emerge from the pandemic.

Between 2016 and 2019, Bakersfield police officers used force that broke at least 45 bones in 31 people, an analysis of public records shows.

The cost of living surged 5% last month, according to the Department of Labor. That’s the highest inflation rate we’ve seen in more than a decade.

On June 15, the Golden State is saying goodbye to many of the regulations that have shaped daily life for the last pandemic year.

Joe Mathews says that focusing on the state budget, when it appears in good shape, obscures California’s systemic failures.

With the state’s color-coded reopening tiers riding off into the sunset, there’s no more social distancing, and masks in almost every indoor situation are being retired.

Joe Mathews says, “If America needs a 1/6 commission, then California must have a 3/13 commission.”

Echo Park Lake reopened to the public this week after two months of being closed for repairs, with some obvious changes.

Sherry Buchanan, author of “On the Ho Chi Minh Trail,” discusses what she learned about the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese women who survived its frontlines.