Hannah Wiley covers the Bay Area and North Coast for the Los Angeles Times. She was previously a reporter for The Times’ Sacramento bureau, covering state politics and policy. Wiley is based in San Francisco.
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The wharf reopened to visitors and merchants less than two weeks after a dangerous storm’s crashing waves collapsed more than 100 feet of the pier into the ocean.
At least two people were reported killed and several more injured after a multiple-car collision on the westbound 134 Freeway in Pasadena, authorities said.
L.A. tech entrepreneur Mike Johns posted a video of his call to a customer service representative for Waymo to report that the car kept turning in circles.
Drug overdose deaths fell sharply in San Francisco in 2024. Experts credit better access to overdose-reversal medication and medications that ease opioid addiction, as well as the waning effects of the COVID pandemic.
San Francisco residents voted to permanently close the Upper Great Highway to cars and turn it into a park. That sparked a recall effort against a local lawmaker.
Efforts to reform life inside the walls of the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla are making headway. But most female prisoners have experienced levels of trauma that make it hard to build trust.
London Breed lost her reelection bid after six years as San Francisco mayor. After tackling a series of crises, including entrenched homelessness, the explosive rise in fentanyl use and the COVID-19 pandemic, Breed said she leaves office with her head held high.
Coastal areas in Northern California began evacuating residents after a 7.0 earthquake off Humboldt County’s coast prompted a tsunami warning. Luckily, the worst didn’t play out. But emergency procedures were appropriately taken, officials said.
Centered under the Pacific Ocean about 70 miles southwest of Eureka, the strong quake frayed nerves across most of California’s North Coast.
The earthquake occurred at 10:44 a.m. with an epicenter under the Pacific Ocean, about 70 miles southwest of Eureka and 110 miles northwest of Mendocino.