The California black bears are coming out of the hills to eat and play. On a day when Los Angeles County officials warned residents to beware of the big black animals, no matter how cuddly they might appear, state Fish and Game officials announced they've captured one of the black bears suspected o ... More >>
The California black bears are coming out of the hills to eat and play. On a day when Los Angeles County officials warned residents to beware of the big black animals, no matter how cuddly they might appear, state Fish and Game officials announced they've captured one of the black bears suspected o ... More >>
Is a "Rise of the Planet of the Black Bears" playing out in northeast Los Angeles County? First there was Glendale bear, a strapping young dude who yielded for no pedestrian texter in his hunt for the mighty meatball. Then came Altadena bear, a mother of two who chose a residential sidewalk tree fo ... More >>
This post has been updated to correct information about the victim's identity. Twenty-year-old Duarte man Alex Rodriguez was declared dead early Sunday morning. He had driven his Honda sedan off the side of the windy, cliffside San Gabriel Canyon Road -- also known as Highway 39. A 16-year-old gir ... More >>
(Note: An earlier version of this post said that parking at the Getty was free after 5 p.m. It used to be free, but is actually now $10, a new policy implemented in Nov. 2011) Are you the person who secretly doesn't put down enough cash for the check, leaving all your friends to scramble to cover i ... More >>
(Note: An earlier version of this post said that parking at the Getty was free after 5 p.m. It used to be free, but is actually now $10, a new policy implemented in Nov. 2011) Are you the person who secretly doesn't put down enough cash for the check, leaving all your friends to scramble to cover i ... More >>
(Note: An earlier version of this post said that parking at the Getty was free after 5 p.m. It used to be free, but is actually now $10, a new policy implemented in Nov. 2011) Are you the person who secretly doesn't put down enough cash for the check, leaving all your friends to scramble to cover i ... More >>
Updated at the bottom: Following Mountain High's early opening Saturday, Bear Mountain Resort will open Wednesday, and Snow Summit Mountain Resort will kick in on Thursday. First posted at 12:45 p.m. Friday. Wait, you ask, summer's over? Yeah, look at the calendar. It passed more than 30 day ... More >>
mylfrog.infoOne of 200 Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs left in the universe.A rare breed of frog with leopard-like markings and funny haunches -- and absolutely no relevance to your everyday life, except that it's an L.A. native, and hey, neighbors look out for neighbors -- was wiped of 1/3 of i ... More >>
Matthew KangFood bloggers H.C. So (green shirt) and Cathy Chaplin (red shorts) combining their two passions -- food and running -- during a "food marathon." When you're as passionate about food as food bloggers are, dieting and counting calories just don't make sense in your world. And thanks ... More >>
Matthew KangFood bloggers H.C. So (green shirt) and Cathy Chaplin (red shorts) combining their two passions -- food and running -- during a "food marathon." When you're as passionate about food as food bloggers are, dieting and counting calories just don't make sense in your world. And thanks ... More >>
Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentSuspected friend-killer Kevin Pochter: On the loose in the San Gabriel MountainsThis guy's good. After allegedly murdering "lifelong friend" Dean Ron Albert, 53, deep in the Angeles National Forest on Thursday, Huntington Beach resident Kevin Wolfe Pocht ... More >>
Camron Stone​Sit in a tree. Go to jail. That's how they roll in Arcadia. The "Arcadia 4" tree-sitters are having a press conference April 19 at 10 a.m., (Criminal Justice Center, 210 West Temple Street), where environmentalists John Quigley and Camron Stone, and actors Daryl Hannah and Ed Begl ... More >>
LAistJust another sign we're all gonna dieDon't let this cheery here-comes-the-sun facade the sky is pulling make you think, even for a second, that the universe has forgiven us. There's invisible rain damage hiding in all corners of L.A. County -- and it's going to get you. And your little c ... More >>
ZastavkiWhad'ya say we all just move to AntarcticaWhat a bone-chilling way to slide into December. Not to mention the holidays. We woke up this morning after a night of visible breath and twinkly lights to the news that unemployment benefits will likely terminate for 2 million people by th ... More >>
Updated after the jump with children of group leader being put in protective custody. It was a weird weekend in Palmdale, where authorities were on the lookout for a breakaway Christian church group that was feared to have undertaken a suicide pact. When the 13 people were found at a local p ... More >>
Those towering cumulus clouds to the east? They're pregnant with precipitation, and the National Weather Service on Wednesday issued a "flash flood alert." The areas affected are the southeastern Antelope Valley and the San Gabriel Mountains, including the communities of Big Pines, Pearblosso ... More >>
Those towering cumulus clouds to the east? They're pregnant with precipitation, and the National Weather Service on Wednesday issued a "flash flood alert." The areas affected are the southeastern Antelope Valley and the San Gabriel Mountains, including the communities of Big Pines, Pearblosso ... More >>
A tense battle over erecting a "hands-on" museum and more parking on a shrinking band of green
Blaze of glory: The Station Fire.The blog Griffith Park Wayist has its take on the top 10 political stories in the city of Los Angeles for the year, and by the looks of it 2009 wasn't City Hall's best year. There was a mayor who let the governor's race pass him by, the council that found dist ... More >>
Blaze of glory: The Station Fire.The blog Griffith Park Wayist has its take on the top 10 political stories in the city of Los Angeles for the year, and by the looks of it 2009 wasn't City Hall's best year. There was a mayor who let the governor's race pass him by, the council that found dist ... More >>
InciWeb​A 13-year-old boy has been accused of starting August's 2,000-acre Morris Fire, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Investigators claim the juvenile, who is not in custody, lit the blaze near Morris Dam, in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Azusa. That fire was the first of two b ... More >>
UCLA​Back online after backfire activity temporarily cut its connection to a nearby Internet server, Mount Wilson's Towercam surveys the surrounding San Gabriel Mountains, revealing, happily, blue sky -- something that had been ominously missing a week ago. Lingering trails of smoke serve as remin ... More >>
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Marcos Costa, the big-rig driver who careened down Angeles Crest Highway into La Canada Flintridge's Foothill Boulevard, killing two people, pled not guilty to vehicular manslaughter Monday morning. On April 1, the brakes went out on Costa's double-decker car carrier as he came down the steep grade ... More >>
Kevin ScanlonLast week at blogging.la, Chal Pivik said, "Despite re-opening in late 2006 after nearly five years of renovations and additions, Griffith Observatory remains one of LA's relatively off-the-radar attractions, even though parking and admission is free." I completely agreed, and spent mu ... More >>
A Pacific Electric trolley car makes its way up Mount Lowe in the San Gabriel Mountains. (Photo: Herald-Examiner/LAPL)
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