Todd Haig waves a checkered flag during a victory lap in Long Beach harbor after his Nordic Racing team won the 72nd Catalina Water Ski Race on Saturday, July 24, 2021. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer) Water cannons in Long Beach harbor greet competitors as they line up for the start of the 72nd
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LOS ANGELES — Firefighters contained a less than 2-acre, light grass fire that had been burning in the Sepulveda Basin, and they were working on a second, smaller fire nearby. Firefighters were dispatched at 12:12 p.m. to the 6400 block of Balboa Boulevard, said Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. “A smaller fire,
The number of migrant children moving from an emergency shelter at Fairplex into homes with relatives or sponsors has more than doubled in the past three weeks, officials said Friday, July 23. A total of 2,461 children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone have been reunified with families or other sponsors, according to U.S. Department
Foothill Transit will pursue returning 13 first-generation electric buses experiencing multiple mechanical problems at a cost of $5 million, the transit agency’s board voted on Friday, July 23. The buses, required to last 12 years, have carried passengers mostly in Pomona and La Verne for about seven or eight years. They could be relinquished to
The “nearly catastrophic flooding” at the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, which led to a sewage spill that closed South Bay beaches for several days last week, has left the facility operating at less-than-full capacity and requires repairs that could take more than a month, Los Angeles sanitation officials said this week. Those repairs have led
SYLMAR — Caltrans on Thursday announced a 55-hour closure of the westbound 210 Freeway in the Sylmar area this weekend as part of an ongoing repavement project. The closure, which will begin at 10 p.m. Friday and end at 5 a.m. Monday, is part of a series of 55-hour closures planned along the 210 Freeway
The L.A. Education Recovery Fund and LAUSD, in collaboration with the LA Sports Council and professional sports teams, host a sports clinic for students at the Robert F. Kennedy UCLA Community School in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Participating sports organizations include the LA Dodgers, LA Rams, LA Chargers, LA Galaxy, LA Kings,
Long Beach has a range of options for the Queen Mary’s future — but all of them will be expensive. That was the main takeaway of a study session the City Council held on Tuesday, July 20, on Long Beach’s potential next steps for managing the historic vessel. City staff outlined five different options identified
TOKYO — U.S. beach volleyball player Taylor Crabb has tested positive for COVID-19 and will likely miss the Olympic Games, the Southern California News Group has learned. Crabb tested positive shortly after arriving in Japan over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the situation. The former NCAA player of the year for Long
A man at Knott’s Berry Farm has climbed a large tower and is refusing to come down.
A Los Angeles development firm, city and county officials celebrated the groundbreaking of a new mixed-income housing project in San Pedro on Monday morning, July 19, continuing the goal that all three groups share of providing affordable housing across the region. The project from SoLa Impact will see a five-story apartment center rise up on
La Verne has become the latest city to issue a vote of no confidence in Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón. In a 3-2 vote Monday, July 19, the City Council agreed to condemn directives from the District Attorney’s Office, calling the policies a risk to public safety. Councilmember Wendy Lau and Muir Davis
Help wanted signs around the region include this one at Aldi on Friday, July 2, 2021. (Photo by Dean Musgrove, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Rep. Brad Sherman discusses access to Covid-19 vaccines, economic recovery from the pandemic, national infrastructure plans, protecting voter rights and other issues facing Congress, 7 p.m. July 21, during a telephone
David Bakhtiari, offensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers, exercises at Proactive Fueled by Herbalife Nutrition, a new multi-sport elite training facility in Westlake Village. The 17,000 square foot venue offers professional, college and high school athletes personalized high-tech programs including physical conditioning, sports rehabilitation and nutrition regimes, Saturday, July 17, 2021. (Photo by Michael
My column about escaping the Inland Empire to spend the Fourth of July weekend housesitting at a friend’s place in North Hollywood drew a few comments, including about the 1926 El Portal Theater. “I grew up in North Hollywood. Nice to see something written about it,” reader Barry Beck says by email. “As I started
The men of Tiger Squadron are a special breed. They belong to an elite set of pilots capable of flying in formation and performing aerobatic maneuvers in fighter planes. But not just any fighter planes — those from the World War II era. And they are ubiquitous — for those who look to the sky
The voice of surfing has gone silent. For decades, Rockin’ Fig’s distinct, upbeat voice echoed across the sand and surf and through radio waves, with play-by-plays over loudspeakers at countless surf competitions and for more than 25 years in the surf report on KROQ radio station for listeners across Southern California. Rick “Rockin’ Fig” Fignetti,
Johnny Torres is often the first person at the scene of a shooting in Los Angeles County’s First District. A crisis and gang intervention worker, Torres isn’t there to investigate a crime, but to support the needs of victims and their family members. Sometimes that support looks likes covering hospital expenses. Other times it’s helping
Days after the 2015 Aliso Canyon gas leak started, Porter Ranch resident Becky Leveque noticed mysterious oily spots over her car and house as her panicking neighbors were fleeing their homes. In the following days and weeks, residents complained of respiratory problems, headaches, nosebleeds and vomiting. Leveque said nobody explained what the community was breathing
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge appears poised to throw out all but one portion of a lawsuit accusing Inglewood and Mayor James T. Butts Jr. of wrongful termination, sexual harassment and retaliation, because the mayor’s former assistant did not file her lawsuit on time. Judge Richard Burdge Jr. is allowing the attorneys representing Melanie