Residents of the Lake Elsinore area can learn whether their homes, businesses and places of work or other interests are under evacuation orders because of the Holy fire by using an interactive online map created by Riverside County. On the map, areas in blue signify mandatory evacuations; yellow, voluntary evacuations; and white, no evacuations. Users…
It’s been a year since hundreds of white nationalists, carrying everything from semi-automatic rifles and Nazi symbols to Confederate flags and tiki torches, marched on the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, chanting “Jews will not replace us” and threatening people of color. The rally, which started on the night of Aug. 11…
Mamak Shakib and her husband, Lyss Murphey, have spent years fixing up their 1929 cabin in Holy Jim Canyon, only to lose it in the Holy fire. She said she is not sad, however: “Everything that has a price tag is replaceable.” Lyss Murphey, 62, a volunteer firefighter for the mountain community, sent Shakib a…
Feeling lightheaded or have a nagging headache? Are you short of breath or wheezing? Maybe your chest is hurting or your eyes are stinging? Those symptoms could all be from the smoke lingering in the air from the Holy fire, which has burned more than 18,000 acres with effects felt across Southern California. The air was…
Aliso Viejo has extended the filing period for two seats on the City Council to 5:30 p.m. Aug. 15. Councilman Phil Tsunoda, who has served on Aliso Viejo City Council since 2007, will not seek re-election; therefore, the filing deadline has been extended for nonincumbents only. The General Municipal Election is set for Tuesday, Nov….
Ben Newburn faced a group of weary firefighters gathered a few mornings ago with one message: Safety before anything else. The veteran fire management officer for U.S. Forest Service recounted the numerous firefighters who had lost their lives battling massive blazes in the region. There was Andrew…
Southern California Democrats have said few, if any, critical words about the state rail authority’s decision in 2016 to drop Los Angeles as the starting point of the first segment of the statewide bullet train. Rail officials announced at the time that they would instead invest the vast majority…
Facing mounting criticism for allowing Hollister Ranch landowners to keep 8.5 miles of Santa Barbara coastline largely closed to the beachgoing public, state officials indicated Thursday some regret about the controversial deal they quietly agreed to earlier this year. In an announcement met with…
Yoshio Nakamura knows what it’s like to lose a home. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. government forced his family and 120,000 others of Japanese descent from their West Coast residences into desolate camps. The Rosemead native joined the U.S. Army and survived Nazi artillery…
For years, James Peterson’s secrets were safe in the courtrooms of Los Angeles. The L.A. County sheriff’s deputy, who trawled a stretch of the 5 Freeway for drug traffickers, often testified in the state court system about his arrests. No one knew to ask about his troubled past. Then one of Peterson’s…
