Dozens of vintage VW vans line one side of the Huntington Beach pier Saturday morning as the Kowabunga Van Klan of Huntington Beach Car Show featured a colorful array of 110 vintage VW buses lined up all along the pier from Duke’s to Ruby’s in Huntington Beach on Saturday, April 27, 2019. (Sam Gangwer, Contributing…
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday ordered key state agencies to develop a blueprint for meeting California’s 21st-century water needs in the face of climate change. The executive order includes few details and doesn’t appear to set a dramatic new water course for the state. Rather, it reaffirms Newsom’s…
The man accused of opening fire at a Poway, Calif., synagogue was charged Monday with murder and three counts of attempted murder — all with hate crime allegations — as well as arson for a fire at an Escondido mosque. According to the district attorney’s office, John T. Earnest, 19, has been charged…
It started in early March when the FBI detected disturbing online postings from a Reseda man. He would eventually vow revenge for the New Zealand mosque attack. It ended last Friday, when Mark Steven Domingo, 26, an Army veteran, was arrested and later charged with attempting to provide material…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Monday afternoon 21 miles from Las Flores, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 3:54 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 5.6 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 22 miles from Oceanside, 23 miles from Camp…
New research unveiled recently links a series of California earthquakes to heavy snowmelt during a wet winter. Scientists involved in the work said they believe that water from the runoff flowed down to the groundwater, causing seismic movement. The research offers new geological insights into…
It certainly is not the first time in America’s long history of political rough-and-tumble that an elected official was labeled a “socialist,” or called “a clown,” or had his or her essential integrity questioned. But it might be the first time a politician had all of that said about him in a single sentence in…
For the last week, I’ve been riding the No. 2 Metro bus back and forth between UCLA and downtown Los Angeles. The route connects some of L.A.’s richest ZIP Codes to some of its poorest, the eastbound route starting in Westwood and taking Sunset Boulevard all the way downtown, where it terminates…
County officials say L.A. County is the nation’s toughest to count because of its high concentrations of renters, homeless people and immigrant communities.
His name once was synonymous with police brutality. Angry mobs shouted it as they torched buildings. And in some circles, the riots that erupted in the streets of Los Angeles in April 1992 bore his name. The social upheaval and chaotic violence inspired by Rodney G. King — a black motorist whom…
