Tujunga

This L.A. Golf Course Was an Internment Camp. Should It Get Historic Monument Status?

L.A.'s Cultural Heritage Commission met at City Hall Thursday morning to determine whether to designate Tujunga's Verdugo Hills Golf Course a historic-cultural monument, not because it's a golf course, but because it was the site of the Tuna Canyon Detention Station, Immigration, and Naturalization ... More >>

Jason Kies, La Crescenta Resident, Tried To Kidnap Women In Valley For Sex, Cops Allege

Cops say a creeper who was following a jogger in La Crescenta was under arrest today for allegedly attempting to kidnap two other women in North Hollywood. The suspect was ID'd as 37-year-old La Crescenta resident Jason Kies. The LAPD says it somehow came upon him as a suspect and put him under sur ... More >>

Sunny Weekend Gives Way To Winter Storm, Snow For L.A. Area

Update: The National Weather Service has upgraded this to a "winter storm warning." First posted at 9:03 a.m. We hope you enjoyed that almost summer-like weekend. Early spring!, you exclaimed. Punxsutawney Phil is right, you yelled with joy. Not so fast. Winter is returning to Los Angeles with ... More >>

African American School Girl Sent Home Over Skin-Tone Tights? LAUSD Defends Itself

The L.A. school district stands behind a decision to send an 11-year-old middle schooler to the principal's office after she wore tights that happened to match her African American skin tone. Her mother contends that she was sent home from Mt. Gleason Middle School in Tujunga because the brown pant ... More >>

Michelle Jordan's Videotaped Slamfest by LAPD Prompts Demotion For Capt. Joseph Hiltner

See also: *Michelle Jordan: LAPD Take-Down of Woman in Foothill Area Caught on Video. The videotaped LAPD slam-fest against 34-year-old Michelle Jordan in a Del Taco parking lot near Tujunga appears to have cost an LAPD division commander a demotion. The episode seems to have really pissed off L.A ... More >>

Michelle Jordan: LAPD Take Down of Woman in Foothill Area Caught on Video

We changed the headline after finding out more, with additional details, including video and the woman's ID, at the bottom. First posted at 7:34 p.m. Police tonight said they're investigating a videotaped beat-down "use of force" by two LAPD cops in its San Fernando Valley Foothill Divison. The of ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: L.A. Food and Wine, Sunland Watermelon Festival, Lucques Rib Roundup Ecuadorian Parade

2nd Annual L.A. Food & Wine Festival With nearly 40 events over four days in Santa Monica, Hollywood, Beverly Hills and downtown, the LAFW looks to be one of the city's most ambitious food festivals. More than 150 chefs, including David Myers, Michael Voltaggio, Mark Peel, Michael Mina and Charles P ... More >>

Home Found in Middle of Sundland Park: Deputies Arrest Transient Robert Downs

Times are hard. Houses in SoCal can cost three times what they do in other parts of the country. Getting a home loan for your everyday two-income family in L.A. can take an act of God. And there's all that open space in Southern California, too. Shame. Someone should just up and build a house there ... More >>

The Original Food Trucks

Loncheras are riding the food truck tidal wave

20 Most Embarrassing Things Found in the Los Angeles River by Cleanup Volunteers

The Los Angeles "River" is sort of a joke in this town: It looks more like a long ugly concrete gutter than anything an egret or magical swamp fairy would call home. Maybe that explains why we treat it like our own personal trash chute! Beginning a couple decades ago, a group called Friends of the ... More >>

Gleason Middle School Teacher Removed for Taking Photos of Girls, Source Says

Another day, another sex scandal for the L.A. Unified School District. This morning we told you that claims of sexual improprieties at public schools were through the roof following the horrific allegations at Miramonte Middle School last month. This latest case involves a teacher at Gleason Midd ... More >>

Gail Silverton Sells Gelato Bar in Studio City

Gail Silverton and Joel Gutman, co-owners of Gelato Bar, one of our favorite gelaterias in Los Angeles, recently sold their Studio City location on Tujunga Avenue. Thankfully, the shop's name and gelato production will remain the same.

Koreatown Roars Against Gerrymander

Sleeping tiger says no more splitting

The Five Most Furious Reactions to the Redistricting of Los Angeles

As insanely boring -- and incomprehensible to the average voter -- as the redistricting of Los Angeles may be, it's kind of a big deal. We understand the apathy. In a city where only a little over 10 percent of eligible voters turn out for municipal elections at all, they can hardly be expected to ... More >>

What Happens When Public Art Falls Apart?

It's been over 20 years since artist Tony DeLap built one of the first public artworks in Santa Monica. The Big Wave, an arching sculpture greeting visitors to the city's gateway on Wilshire Boulevard, had suffered greatly in its first two decades from rust and deterioration. Last year, restoration ... More >>

Vigen Sarkisyan, 18, Killed When Car Plunges 500 Feet off Angeles Crest Highway

Corrected at the bottom: There was apparently no car involved in the plunge. An 18-year-old from Sunland-Tujunga, a small mountain community in northeast Los Angeles, died in a tragic Sunday-afternoon accident off Angeles Crest Highway. Vigen Sarkisyan was in a car with two of his friends when it ... More >>

Wal-Mart Buys Up Monster Lot in Burbank; Facebook Protesters Say 'Hell No'

Facebook​There comes a time in every sleepy suburban town's life when it must go head-to-head with the Wal-Mart empire. There is the initial outcry -- the sidewalk picketers, the angry speeches at City Council meetings -- and, too often, the inevitable defeat. (Followed by a sheepish midnight ... More >>

Scott Svonkin, Candidate for Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees, Gets Gift: Frontiers Forgets to Fact Check

Kyle T. WebsterScott Svonkin going off. Nothing new.​Scott Svonkin, San Gabriel Unified School District Board member, is running for the powerful L. A. Community College District Board. Thanks to major Democratic backing and union campaign contributions, Svonkin is the strong favorite. In r ... More >>

Los Angeles Spring Storm Fells Trees, Floods Streets, Darkens Homes

MuscleNerdTree down in L.A.​Update: PCH was reopened, and so was the Grapevine. Record rainfall was recorded around Southern California, with downtown Los Angeles seeing 2.42 inches Sunday compared with 1.48 inches on the date in 1943. See more records after the jump. The first week of spring ... More >>

Snow, Record Cold Possible For L.A. This Weekend: Thank God It's Freezing

johnwilliamsphdSnow could be en route to L.A.​Update: L.A. County announced mountain road closures, after the jump. East Coasters like to make fun of us for complaining about brisk winter temps in the low 60s this time of year. But we do get real "weather," and this weekend is about to prove ... More >>

Not Saving the Oaks

Your Guide To L.A. Road Closures -- And A Wind Advisory For 7 P.M.

Don't be a dick​Updated after the jump with current conditions and some record storm stats for the books. Originally posted at 12:36 p.m. Update, 3:20 p.m.: The big storm should hit between midnight and noon tomorrow. We'll get at least two inches. (So far, 14 people have been rescued from Or ... More >>

North Valley Planning Commission Allows Propane Station...But With Exception

​ Valley residents opposed to a planned propane filling station at the old Coffee Spot got good news and bad news at a Thursday meeting of the North Valley Area Planning Commission. The commission approved the filling station but also voted to force the developer, Trans Gas Propane, to signi ... More >>

Good Use For Former Coffee Stop? How About A Big Propane Filling Station

​ The North Valley Planning Commission will hear an appeal at 4:30 today on a proposed propane filling station at what used to be a Coffee Stop. The Sunland-Tujunga Alliance is fired up and ready to go, calling the plan a foolish use of what is supposed to be a pedestrian-friendly retail area. ... More >>

Officials To Consider Four High Speed Rail Stations In The Valley

​According to the Burbank Leader, officials are set to meet next week to hear reports on possible high-speed rail locations in the San Fernando Valley. California's planned 800-mile high-speed rail system will include one station in the Valley. Representatives of the California High-Speed R ... More >>

Gelato Bar Los Feliz Soft Opens Today At Yesterday's Prices

J. RitzComing soon to Hillhurst: Gelato Bar gelati.​When aiming to open their new Los Feliz location of Gelato Bar in late spring/early summer, owners Gail Silverton and Joel Gutman have achieved the near impossible for food business proprietors -- they will soft open around their target windo ... More >>

Evacuations Ordered For Parts Of Southern Tujunga

LAFD​A "unified command" comprised of Los Angeles police and the Los Angeles Fire Department has ordered residents of some of the foothill communities of southern Tujunga to evacuate as the third and most powerful of as many as five successive storms was expected to hit the Los Angeles basin W ... More >>

Evacuations Ordered For Several Foothill Communities (UPDATED)

National Weather Service​Authorities ordered 64 households in the Paradise Valley area of La Canada-Flintridge to evacuate as storm-caused mud flows threatened a neighborhood above 2524 Ocean View Boulevard. Evacuations of 83 residences in the Riverwood Ranch, Alpine Village, Zachaou Canyon, H ... More >>

L.A. Council Rejects Home Buffer Zone For Pot Shops

​Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>

Did Feds Cause the Station-fire Disaster

Ugly allegations that fire officials reduced air support, tankers and backup crews

Station Fire Victims Twice Burned

Ted SoquiStation Fire​One thing the recent wildfires showed us is the media's need to find villains, victims and fools during the narrative of destruction. One popular example of the last category was a pair of men living in Big Tujunga Canyon who, we were told, decided to wade out the Station Fir ... More >>

Pre-election fornicating? A land speculator throws his weight around in Council District 2 Election

By Paul TeetorA small-scale blueprint of everything that's wrong with L.A. City Hall politics will be on display tonight at a Catholic church in Valley Glen, a community near Victory Boulevard and Laurel Canyon Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley: Tonight, a land speculator who is pushing for a hu ... More >>

Eight candidates scare L.A. City Hall

A September 22 election in Council District 2 may shake all the way to downtown

War of Words Over Station Fire

A too-modest air attack failed to stop it when firefighters still had a chance

Can an Activist Crack L.A. City Hall's Machine?

In the riled-up S.F. Valley, a struggle pits regular folk against big money

Sunland-Tujunga Watermelon Festival This Weekend: Free Watermelon a Seed-spitting Contest

Alumni of VHHS1960's photo caption: The Girls Are Real​This weekend, for the price of $1, you can attend the 48th annual Sunland-Tujunga Watermelon Festival , which is a serious deal, as your buck gets you a raffle ticket, lots of activities--and free watermelon. The festival will have rides ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Little Tujunga Fire Quelled A 130-acre blaze in a canyon of the Angeles National Forest has been almost completely contained, with no loss of life or structures. L.A. Daily NewsViolence Ends Amber Alert A man who sexually assaulted his girlfriend, then shot a woman while carjacking her vehicle -- an ... More >>

Replacing Wendy Greuel in the Valley

A juicy $2.5 million City Council seat opens in anti-Villaraigosa territory

The Unsung in Today's Los Angeles City Council and LAUSD Elections

L.A. is a city of steamroller politics and barely aware voters. It is exceedingly difficult for everyday citizens to beat an incumbent running for Los Angeles City Council or Los Angeles Unified School Board. It is almost as difficult to win an empty seat on either body unless you are the one being ... More >>

Canyon Lady

Legendary experimental filmmaker Chick Strand, vital and vibrant at 75

It's About Term Limits, Stupid

A fight over a Home Depot exposes the true intent of Proposition R

Prospecting for Beauty

Treasure map to the best park bench in Southern California

Writing on the Walls

Judy Baca

Letters

11 Cool Views of the L.A. River

A Scary Abundance of Water

Part 2

The Battle for Tujunga

Wendy and Tony battle to fill the shoes of Wachs

Wendy Greuel for City Council

The Weekly’s recommendation in the December 11 special election in the 2nd District

Cleaning Up Tujunga Wash

Making nature safe for equestrians