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Sheriff Alex Villanueva speaks at the ribbon cutting of the new Santa Clarita Sheriff station on Golden Valley Road in Santa Clarita. The 46,552 square-foot Sheriff’s Station will include a Type I detention facility, a 4,165 square-foot vehicle maintenance building, a communications tower and a helipad. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) LA

When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in early 2020, Mike Mardoyan watched as business at his deli fell off a cliff. The owner of Hideout Cafe, a small eatery in a Woodland Hills office building, said revenue plummeted 80%. He was able to get a $12,000 Small Business Administration loan to stay afloat, but now

El Segundo residents may be startled by smoke and flames periodically coming from the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant the rest of the month — but there’s no need for concern, officials say. It’s all part of scheduled maintenance work that begins Sunday, Oct. 17, according to an alert from El Segundo this week. The plant’s

HOLLYWOOD — An 11th-hour deal was reached Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs and would have frozen productions in Hollywood and across the U.S. After days of marathon negotiations, representatives from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and from

LONG BEACH — U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board marine casualty investigators boarded the container ship MSC DANIT on Saturday in the Port of Long Beach. Prior to the visit, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Braden Rostad, chief of investigations in L.A. and Long Beach, determined that the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) DANIT was

The congregation at Canoga Park Lutheran Church celebrates its 75th anniversary with two services on Oct. 17. The church is on Jordan Avenue at Valerio Street. (Google Street View) Here is a sampling of religious services in the San Fernando Valley area, Oct. 16-23. Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost at Prince of Peace Episcopal Church: Two

Los Angeles County public health officials reported 1,229 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,475,694 as of Friday, Oct. 15. The total number of cases represents 14.6% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported 24 more deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 26,395 deaths since tracking

The Los Angeles Unified School District has been slapped with a lawsuit over its mandate that students 12 and older get their COVID-19 shots, a requirement which attorneys for the plaintiff contend is unlawful because it does not allow for religious or personal belief exemptions. The lawsuit was filed last week on behalf of a

Los Angeles County public health officials reported 1,142 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,474,518 as of Thursday, Oct. 14. The total number of cases represents 14.6% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported 19 more deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 26,372 deaths since tracking

SUN VALLEY — A person was killed Thursday in a two-vehicle crash on the southbound 170 Freeway in Sun Valley. The crash occurred about 5 a.m. near Roscoe Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol. Information was not immediately available on the identity of the fatally injured person. Three lanes were blocked while an investigation

NORTH HOLLYWOOD — Two men who died when the vehicle they were in crashed into a palm tree and caught fire in North Hollywood were identified Wednesday. The crash was reported about 1:30 a.m. Monday at Vineland Avenue and Burbank Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Michael Pineda-Guillen, 24, and Raymond Sada, 23,

Los Angeles County public health officials reported 742 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,472,419 as of Monday, Oct. 12. The total number of cases represents 14.6% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported 16 more deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 26,336 deaths since tracking

The Los Angeles Unified school board voted unanimously Tuesday, Oct. 12, to ratify an agreement with the teachers union on matters related to quarantine instruction, COVID-19 health-and-safety measures and employee compensation. The agreement also paves the way for more teachers to be reassigned to City of Angels, the district’s online independent study program. The program has

A foul odor that has lingered for more than a week in the Carson area has left residents demanding answers as local and regional agencies work to contain the smell coming from the Dominguez Channel. “I am responsible for what’s happening,” Mark Pestrella, director of the LA County Department of Public Works, said during Carson’s

The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to push back the deadline for when employees must be fully vaccinated until next month, following a recent warning by one of its labor groups that the nation’s second-largest K-12 system could face dire staffing shortages if they insisted that employees get their second dose by mid-October.

English sole fish and other marine life have been collected in the vicinity of the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant to determine whether the 17 million gallons of raw sewage discharged in July — and the subsequent release of partially treated wastewater in the months after — will have any long-term impacts on the ocean environment.

Bekkah Doyle, right, of the Black Flag Cancer Derby Divas competes in The Relay For Life demolition derby in support of cancer awareness at Irwindale Speedway on Saturday, October 9, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer) The Black Flag Cancer Derby Divas compete in The Relay For Life demolition derby in support of

Tom LaBonge’s nephew, Elliott LaBonge, dons a family hat for the cleanup effort in North Hollywood during the “Tom LaBonge Day of Service” Saturday.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer) Chet Edelman picks up trash during the “Tom LaBonge Day of Service” Saturday in North Hollywood.(Photo by Andy Holzman, Contributing Photographer) Volunteers work together to clean

Cameron Terrell, 19, acquitted last year in the 2017 murder of Justin Holmes of South LA, is now being accused of a possible car jacking that occurred when he was a juvenile on spring break. Stacey Butler reports.

USC head swimming coach Jeremy Kipp has been placed on administrative leave following allegations of abusive conduct toward athletes, the Southern California News Group has learned. USC athletics director Mike Bohn informed the Trojans team of the decision during a pool deck meeting Friday afternoon, according to a source familiar with a university investigation of