LOS ANGELES — Mayor Eric Garcetti and other leaders will celebrate the unveiling of the new Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport Friday following a half-billion dollar renovation. The upgrades were funded by Southwest Airlines and Los Angeles World Airports and include new dining and retail options. L.A. City Councilman Joe Buscaino, Board of…
The owner of a family-run cannabis farm, tucked away in a rural Riverside County community known for marijuana cultivation, says he’s paid taxes and lab tested his crops for years. At the start of this year, he thought he was well situated to join California’s newly legal recreational marijuana industry. But the market, quite literally,…
Californians know a lot — or think they do — about our Central Valley’s crops and their controversies. In our most recent drought, for instance, everyone became an instant “expert” on the pros and cons of almond trees, and their irrigation needs. Almonds, ridiculously, became the scapegoat of the…
Toward the end of a recent news conference held to update the public on the recovery effort in Paradise, a man rose from the audience with a question. He understood that making the burn area safe for people to return to would be difficult. Especially with the near-constant threat of debris flows….
The 73-story Library Tower – now known as the U.S. Bank Tower – held its topping off ceremony in April 1989.
An African American farmer’s Central Valley dream in California.
A key Democratic legislator called Thursday for the immediate resignation of the chairman of the California bullet train project, the most powerful reaction yet to a scathing audit of the $77-billion high-speed rail program that is far behind schedule and over budget. Assembly Transportation Chairman…
OCFA paramedic Linda Brown, right, of Tustin station No. 21 holds Noah Salazar, 11-months, nearly one year after he was safely surrendered to the station. Noah’s adoptive parents, Tim and Javier Salazar, brought him to the station to reunite with the firefighters took him in on Thursday, November 29, 2018 in Tustin. Brown was the…
A San Bernardino Superior Court judge presiding over the trial of McStay family murder suspect Charles “Chase” Merritt ruled Thursday that certain evidence pointing to another suspect cannot be presented to the jury. In a motion filed with the court, one of Merritt’s attorneys argued that a business associate of victim Joseph McStay, Daniel Kavanaugh, threatened…
Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer issued $189,000 worth of mailings from his office during his recent bid to become District Attorney, spurring allegations that he misused taxpayer money for political gain. From March through August, Spitzer’s office mailed out more than 768,000 fliers to constituents in the county’s 3rd District, after sending no such mailings…
