Planetary scientist Laurel Wilkening, UC Irvine’s third chancellor and the third woman chancellor in UC system history, died June 4 in Arizona, where she moved after her 1998 retirement. She was 74. Born in Washington state and raised in New Mexico, Wilkening also taught and held leadership posts at the University of Arizona and the…
Orange County’s transportation agencies have begun sending out sticker versions of FasTrak transponders to toll road drivers, in an effort to make the devices work across the nation and save on the cost of buying the hard-case version previously used. The Transportation Corridor Agencies, which operate the 73, 133, 241 and 261 toll roads, started…
Matthew Renteria stood on the ground level of Inglewood’s new stadium Friday, beaming with pride. The NFL’s next defining complex, the posh $5 billion home-to-be for the Rams and Chargers, is now 70 percent complete. It’s not ready for some football just yet. The field is still covered with gravel and giant cables sag loosely…
A judge will soon weigh whether to dismiss a murder case against a man accused of stabbing to death a bar patron in Laguna Niguel, following allegations that he was taken into custody after a sheriff’s deputy induced a drug-addicted informant into shooting up the homicide suspect with heroin. Craig Tanber Four years after Craig…
P.J. Montano, right, walks with his 94-year-old grandfather Phil Montano, Sr., on their way to the graduation ceremony at Valencia High School in Placentia on Friday, June 7, 2019, 77 years after leaving the school before graduating and being drafted into the U.S. Navy during World War II. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)…
A traveler with measles passed through Los Angeles International Airport late last month, prompting public health officials to issue a renewed call for vaccinations. That person came through Terminal 4, Gate 48B, between 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on May 26, and then through the remote gate at Tom Bradley International Terminal between 3:30 and…
A shallow magnitude 2.5 earthquake was reported Friday afternoon three miles from San Fernando, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake occurred at 4:02 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 3.7 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was six miles from Santa Clarita, seven miles from…
A power outage caused hours of chaos and delays at Los Angeles International Airport this week because a secondary power source that was designed to keep the flow of electricity to terminals and other facilities malfunctioned, officials said Friday. LAX’s power grid is designed for backup systems…
Southern California air quality officials will dramatically raise fees on toxic polluters in an effort to make oil refineries, manufacturers and other industries pay a greater share of the cost of monitoring and regulating their most health-threatening emissions. The South Coast Air Quality Management…
There’s more evidence home appreciation is cooling: Orange County home-price gains are running roughly one-third below their six-year average, by one novel valuation yardstick. Home values were appreciating at an annual rate of 4.1% in April, according to the Real Estate Research Council of Southern California. Since 1943, the group has tracked local home-value movements…
