Blistering heat blankets Southern California as flex alert issued for Thursday afternoon’ For these 5 L.A. community groups, a $50-million windfall from MacKenzie Scott; Amazon Studios wants half of its creative teams to be diverse by 2024; Burbank restaurant that defied COVID-19 shutdown orders is evicted

Councilman Mike Bonin is served with a recall notice. It’s the second in L.A. in a week; Top music industry executives still overwhelmingly white and male, says USC report; Senate approves bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday; Cable cars to return to San Francisco as pandemic ebbs, city reopens

Vaccinated California workers poised to ditch masks this week; Six vacation packages as new vaccine incentive announced by Governor Gavin Newsom; California offers $100 million to aid legal cannabis industry; Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine to launch L.A. magnet high school; LeBron James will switch to jersey No. 6, Lakers announce

California to fully reopen tomorrow; LAPD shootings of unstable people wielding sharp objects a deadly problem; Nearly $1 billion restored to California bullet train

California appeals judge’s ruling that overturned the state’s assault weapons ban; Councilwoman Nithya Raman faces recall bid from L.A. group; Riz Ahmed on violent representation of Muslims in Hollywood; Unshaken: What to know about earthquake preparedness

Californians vaccinated for COVID-19 can largely shed masks; San Francisco is nearing coronavirus herd immunity, but L.A. still has months to go; Los Angeles is poised to ban landlords from harassing tenants; Smorgasburg, closed since March 2020, returns July Fourth

COVID-19 vaccination site opens at Union Station as state hurtles toward reopening; Police Commission to consider new alcohol rules for armed off-duty officers; Suspect charged with murder in road rage shooting death of Aiden Leos; In state’s final weekly COVID-19 assessment, more than half of Californians living in yellow tier; Some Black parents see less bullying, racism with online learning and are keeping kids home

California has one of the lowest coronavirus transmission levels in the U.S.; Gun recovered, new details emerge in apparent road rage killing of 6-year-old Aiden Leos; California moves to make abortion cheaper, as other states work to restrict it; Original rainbow flag returns home to San Francisco after being lost for more than 40 years

L.A.’s youngest Black and Latino residents are least likely to be vaccinated for COVID-19; After judge overturns California assault weapons ban, state officials vow to fight back; Long Beach takes over Queen Mary, vowing to preserve the landmark ship

Last year’s Castle fire killed at least 10% of world’s giant sequoias, study says; Drought ravages California’s reservoirs ahead of hot summer; California lawmakers balk at proposed gun tax to fund violence prevention programs; Azusa police suffered a ransomware attack in 2018. The city kept it secret; California to allow sale of to-go cocktails through the end of the year