The battle for Tribune: Inside the campaign to find new owners for a legendary group of newspapers washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…

Pacific Gas & Electric faces criminal charges over 2019 Kincade wildfire, which burned more than 120 square miles and destroyed 374 buildings. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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Includes badly needed funds to retrofit older homes. John Myers latimes.com/california/sto…

Will this bolster efforts to stop massive new developments in fire-prone wildlands? Louis Sahagun latimes.com/environment/st…

📈 📉 Over the year, Californians experienced a complex set of guidelines that frequently changed, varied from county to county and created a whipsaw effect where businesses were open one week and sometimes closed within days. 📉📈 latimes.com/projects/track…

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday revoked Trump-era orders that promoted fossil fuel development on public lands and waters. She also moved to make climate change a priority in agency decisions. nyti.ms/3uTkPjy

Does the return of drought to Calif. mean the state is stuck in a long megadrought? Not really. Alex Wigglesworth does a nice job of exploring the complexities. latimes.com/california/sto…

A rarity for Northern California in this drought year: Rain forecast for this weekend, would be first precipitation in a month mercurynews.com/2021/04/20/bay…

Nobody loves literature more than our columnists, so, in honor of our annual L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked Steve Lopez LA Times Jenn Harris Robin Abcarian Michael Hiltzik Col. Gustavo Arellano Chazzy monstah Erika D. Smith & Bill Plaschke what they're reading right now.

LISTEN: Co-founder of Punchbowl News, John Bresnahan and NBC News Capitol Hill producer and reporter, @AlexNBCNews, talk police reform. Plus, Bettina Boxall, staff writer at Los Angeles Times covering water and the environment, talks about water security. #ChuckToddCast nbcnews.to/3sEORWL

Newsom declares drought emergency in two Northern Calif. counties -- sticks to no statewide mandates. latimes.com/environment/st…

How the Getty spent the pandemic: deep cleaning with squirrel-hair dusters and dental picks to battle moths that loved those dark, empty exhibit rooms. Deborah Vankin latimes.com/entertainment-…

!!! The DDT dumpsite in the ocean turned out to be MUCH BIGGER than expected. After surveying a swath of seafloor larger than *all of San Francisco,* scientists told me they still could not find an end to the dumping ground. It just kept going... latimes.com/environment/st…

.@Gannett is underpaying women and journalists of color, according to a The NewsGuild-CWA pay equity study. At azcentral, women's median pay was $29,700 less than their male counterparts. Journalists of color earned $25,100 less than their White colleagues cnn.com/2021/04/27/med…

Poseidon is fighting a permit condition that would link start-up of the Huntington Beach desalter to shovel-ready environmental mitigation projects. latimes.com/environment/st…

Poseidon wins key seawater desalination permit latimes.com/environment/st…

MAJOR NEWS: The Los Angeles Times just announced its new executive editor: Kevin Merida who for the past five years has run ESPN's The Undefeated platform that plumbs the intersection of race, culture and sports. Merida starts in June. latimes.com/entertainment-…