Inflation in Los Angeles and Orange counties was rising at a 3.9 percent annual rate in July with gasoline prices up 25 percent in a year, according to a regional Consumer Price Index. The change in the two-county region’s CPI costs and compares with 4 percent a month earlier and 2.5 percent a year earlier. Inflation…
At its next regular meeting, the Los Angeles Board of Education will consider holding an election in March to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Ref Rodriguez. Rodriguez, 47, who represented the school system’s District 5, stepped down July 23 after pleading guilty to one felony and three…
The Mendocino Complex fire became the largest fire in California history. It is one of nine active fires of more than 100,000 acres this summer, including the Holy fire, which has burned more than 19,000 acres in Riverside and Orange counties. More than 100 large fires are burning in the West. This map from the National…
Carr fire path of destruction
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…
