California

Yes, visitors to the newly-remodeled Braille Institute Los Angeles library can touch the art. An L.A. cityscape-themed sensory wall at the library invites visitors to not only touch, but to listen and interact. From Angels Flight to Hollywood Boulevard and the Griffith Observatory, the wall features tributes to L.A. and California — from its car

Juan Ventura stood on the sidewalk chatting with his buddies while sneaking quick looks at the shiny new electric vehicles lined up as part of the second annual EV car show held at California State University, Northridge on Wednesday, April 26. “Gas prices are pretty expensive right now,” said the 18-year-old computer engineering major. “Also,

A California bill that aims to ease newspapers’ internet-age woes by making Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook pay for the online articles their users access through their platforms advanced out of its first committee hearing Tuesday night, but not without lots of questions from lawmakers. “A free and diverse press is the backbone

An attorney for the West Basin Municipal Water District has determined board member Gloria Gray is likely holding two incompatible offices, in violation of state law, because the water district sells to the Inglewood, where she is now a City Council member. Elected officials do not need an actual conflict of interest for the two

Q: I was driving the family to breakfast. A group of political activists were on the road and we were in the next lane. They were honking their horns– blaring them is more like it — incessantly, rather than mentioning the “cause” they were supporting. This was on a Sunday morning, near a neighborhood, and

A view from the San Fernando Valley: A squirrel attempts to eat Airheads candy in Lake Balboa Park in Van Nuys on Monday, March 27, 2023. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Community meetings bring people together for exchange of ideas and memorable shared experiences. Here’s a sampling of meetings, charity/volunteer opportunities and

The winter deluge that pummeled Southern California this year, via multiple severe storms, gave Angelenos a reprieve from the drought, green lawns and a flower super bloom. But a more ominous consequence looms has the weather warms up — mosquitoes. Because of all the rain, which caused pools of water to be scattered across the

Aria, a young humpback whale who was feared dead after her celebrity mother, Fran, was killed by a ship last August, has been spotted swimming in Monterey Bay – hale, hearty and hungry. After surviving the catastrophic accident and then a long journey to Mexico as an orphan, the 1½-year-old whale has returned with a

OAKLAND — The Oakland A’s, who for five decades built an iconic legacy of baseball and community at the vast concrete Coliseum it called home, have agreed to buy land in Las Vegas and build a new stadium there, team officials confirmed Wednesday. The team, in a statement, said it was nearing a “binding agreement”

Health-conscious shoppers found a bounty of in-season berries, avocados, clementines and oranges, carrots, cucumbers, lettuces and snap peas on Saturday at the bustling Main Street Canoga Park Farmers Market on Owensmouth Avenue. The market is open 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Saturdays, rain or shine. And it accepts both EBT (www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/ebt) and WIC (myfamily.wic.ca.gov/WAFL/Home). “The Main Street

Reseda Church of Christ meets at 10:15 a.m. Sunday on Reseda Boulevard at Ingomar Street. (Google Street View) Here is a sampling of upcoming faith gatherings in the San Fernando Valley area. April 22 Hollywood United Methodist Church: Ten panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display, noon-4 p.m. and also April 23,

One look at John Travolta strutting his stuff in “Grease,” and 11-year-old Eddie Burga knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up. That guy up on the screen — an entertainer you couldn’t take your eyes off, someone who made you smile and laugh and have a good time. That was his

While San Pedro’s historic Warner Grand Theatre will temporarily shut down for two years early in 2024, bookings will be available at the venue through Dec. 31 to make sure some of the town’s most-loved holiday events will go on. Los Angeles Councilmember Tim McOsker, who has worked extensively with the city on the upcoming

CHICO — Paige Coley’s high school volleyball journey is best defined by one word — perseverance. After transferring to Pleasant Valley from Los Molinos as a sophomore, Coley had her sophomore season wiped out due to the pandemic and her junior season ravaged by teammates’ injuries. Then, in her senior season, she tore her ACL

Dennis Mabasa talks to the volunteers before the April 15 Friends of the LA River clean-up began. Friends of the LA River held a clean-up on a trail alongside the Los Angeles River on Saturday, April 15, 2023, in Van Nuys. The event was part of the group’s 33rd annual event conducted on two dates,

SAN FERNANDO — A Panorama City man has been charged with murder and other counts on suspicion of fatally shooting a man who had been hired to paint over gang graffiti on the wall of a Northridge business. Jamal Jackson, 24, is set to be arraigned May 23 in a San Fernando courtroom on one

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, April 18 adopted a preliminary budget of $43 billion, representing a $1.6 billion decrease from last year’s spending blueprint, yet the new budget adds 514 positions that are mostly funded by federal and state revenues. The release of the first draft of a 2023-2024 budget allows

A freelance journalist is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the city of Los Angeles alleging that documents he obtained through the California Public Records Act Request contained headshots and names of police officers in sensitive and undercover assignments who were accidentally included in the release. “This is a tool for the

Just days before the annual event to remove tons of trash from the river, Friends of the Los Angeles River got big news from California Department of Fish and Wildlife: rare endangered birds not seen along the river in years, known as Least Bell’s vireos, were nesting on the river and standing in way of

This photo provided by the 101st Airborne Division Office of Public Affairs at Fort Campbell, Ky., shows Sgt. Isaac J. Gayo, 27, of Los Angeles. Gayo was one of nine soldiers killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday evening, March 29, 2023. (101st Airborne Division Office of Public Affairs via AP) A somber procession of a