A majority of California voters support an upcoming ballot measure that would strip funding from the high speed rail project and divert it toward new water storage projects, according to a poll released Thursday.
LOS ANGELES, California — Social media is ablaze with images from a historic conflagration that wiped out a developing, wood-based mixed commercial and residential structure. The fire forced the closure of the 101 Freeway in both directions. Below are some images
A massive fire in downtown Los Angeles caused the California Highway Patrol to shut down the 101 Freeway in both directions and the temporary closure of the 110/101 interchange. The blaze consumed a seven-story wood-framed residential structure that was under
It may come as a surprise that the idea to truncate California into multiples states has been around for over 160 years. What may be more surprising is that the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which Sunday marked its 73rd anniversary,
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) used the California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) to out maneuver Japanese light rail manufacturer Kinkisharyo to secure a card-check provision to organize employees. Kinkisharyo won a $900 million dollar contract from the Metropolitan Transportation
Advocates for the projected bullet train running from San Francisco to Los Angeles argued at the Public Policy Institute’s all-day State of Change conference last week that simply getting the project started would catalyze the federal government to pour more
Hundreds of demonstrators convened on Hollywood Boulevard at noon on Saturday to protest peacefully and stage a die-in expressing their frustrations over grand jury decisions not to indict the officers involved in recent civilian deaths resulting from a variety of different
A new book targets “El Sistema,” Venezuela’s famous $100 million music education program, which has been described as a “high-intensity programme of instrumental coaching that turned kids from the slums of Venezuela into the thrilling Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra (SBYO),
Less than three months after the initial installment of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s official portrait was hung in the rotunda of the state Capitol, bearing a somewhat visible image of his estranged wife Maria Shriver’s face on a pin on his
Frank and Louie, a Guinness World Record-holding Janus cat, passed away on Thursday at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in Grafton on Thursday. The two-faced cat was 15-years-old when he died on Thursday, outliving his closest
Last week on the Daily Show, host Jon Stewart claimed, incorrectly, that the San Bernadino County police department had shot and killed a black suspect out of racial animus. In response, District Attorney Michael Ramos posted a video on YouTube
A pair of new reports this week illuminate the challenges facing millennials in California. The U.S. Census Bureau released a new report called “Young Adults Then and Now,” a study aimed at comparing the lives of young adults over time,
Not long after two adults made sexual abuse allegations against him, a veteran Los Angeles Police Department detective, while sitting in his parked car in a Palmdale parking lot, put a gun to his head, pulled the trigger, and killed
Los Angeles County residents living below the poverty level, at 18%, make up a greater percentage of the area’s population than either California or the United States’ rates, according to new results released through the U.S. Census Bureau. One forth
Police responding to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon shot one suspect wielding a knife. The shooting took place at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in the heart of Hollywood Friday night according to
December 6, 2014 marks the twenty-year anniversary of Orange County filing for bankruptcy. For 18 years, Orange County Treasurer Robert “Bob” Citron had been a municipal government legend for producing investment returns rates that were consistently double bank CD rates.
An elementary school principal in California was slashed on his face with a box cutter on Thursday by two men who approached him during school hours asking about a student. The incident occurred around 3:15 p.m. when two men, described
The U.S. Department of Defense, ever concerned that local police departments might lack needed equipment for their efforts combating crime, sent the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department an early Christmas present last March: 500 snowshoes and 132 snow trousers. That wasn’t
A 21-year-old transgender woman was fatally gunned down at 4 a.m. on Wednesday in Compton, Los Angeles, while pounding on the door of a home pleading for help. The homeowner came out after hearing multiple gunshots, but by then it was
The number of immigrants deported from the U.S. fell 14 percent for the year ending Sept. 30, even as the number of people caught crossing the border grew, the Los Angeles Times reports. A draft ICE report shows immigration officials deported 315,943
There was a flurry of negative stories that online sales momentum is falling after IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark reported Cyber Monday evening that sales only rose 8.5%, compared to 20% the prior year. But IBM, as a 9-to-5 corporation that
Protestors across California shut down roads and a freeway Thursday during demonstrations in solidarity with activists across the nation who are outraged by the non-indictment of police officers in the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in
