Her name is Hazel, which tells you something about her age, but she goes by “Happi.” Happi Hicks. Two weeks ago, when I wrote about my mother’s final days in hospice care and asked readers to share their own stories, Mrs. Hicks weighed in. “Sorry about your bouts with Hospice!” she emailed. “Your…
Mandatory evacuations were issued for the Holy fire burn area in Lake Elsinore and Temescal Valley on Saturday morning, Feb. 2, ahead of forecasted heavy rain. At least 2 inches of rain is expected fall throughout Southern California on Saturday, with as much as 6 inches in the foothills and south-facing mountain slopes, the National…
By Ricardo Cano | CALmatters If the Golden State has a rooting interest in the Super Bowl on Sunday, it won’t just be because the Los Angeles Rams will be on the field. Roughly one player in six on the Rams’ and New England Patriots’ active rosters is a product of California high schools. Year after year,…
A shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Saturday morning eight miles from Petrolia, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 3:18 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 3.7 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 24 miles from Fortuna, Calif., 36 miles from…
“If you can’t get to paradise, I’ll bring it to you!”– Donn Beach I will never look at a Tiki mug or Hawaiian shirt the same way again. I used to think Tiki was kitsch, but not anymore. Here’s the story of how I found a rare 1940’s book of Don the Beachcomber documents with…
For more than 150 years, Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors has been the realm of men — a powerful governing body that long ago earned the nickname of the “five little kings.” But that was before women earned a supermajority on the board, with Supervisor Janice Hahn — whose father, Kenneth…
As a high school senior, Ruben Nevarez faced a difficult decision: attend Bucknell, a highly rated college in Pennsylvania, or stick close to home in Los Angeles and choose a more affordable option. Bucknell University had offered Nevarez a generous scholarship, but he’d still have to take out…
Two U.S. immigrant rights attorneys and two journalists who have worked closely with members of a migrant caravan in Tijuana said they had been denied entry into Mexico in recent days after their passports were flagged with alerts by an unknown government. Their stories are nearly identical:…
Somebody stuffed nine puppies into a dog-food bag, duct-taped it and abandoned it at an Escondido park this week, and authorities want to know who did it. The puppies are Shar-Pei/Labrador retriever mixes roughly 10 to 14 days old, according to the San Diego Humane Society. A pair of good Samaritans…
National Weather Service forecasters, who typically describe approaching weather in technical terms such as “long wave trough” and “orographic wind component,” have mostly ditched the scientific phrases and taken a direct approach with a potentially damaging storm expected to move into Southern California overnight Friday and into Saturday. “Skies will turn ugly Saturday as a powerful…
