The partners and Stanford later founded the Central Pacific Railroad. Back then, even Southern California, so far from the action, managed to profit from the gold fields up north, from selling ...

To the editor: Since you are intent on giving people in red states (especially Tennessee) a platform to bash Los Angeles and California, I trust you will give voice to the “other side” as well.

A new study that confirms we’re not getting younger comes from the state’s best-known think tank, the Public Policy Institute of California. PPIC reported in January that 22% of Californians ...