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Ontario airport passenger levels cut in half in 2020, but freight increased 20%
After seeing more than 50% fewer passengers in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ontario International Airport experienced a silver lining in the form of a near 20% increase in commercial freight....
View ArticleAssembly bill proposes cash bonuses to help retain burned-out health care...
Nearly 100,000 California health care employees of large companies could receive as much as $10,000 in coronavirus bonuses next year under proposed legislation that Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi,...
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Pomona-born astronaut answers students’ questions from orbiting space station
Elijah Cole, a student at Etiwanda High School, asked Pomona-born astronaut Victor Glover to name the most beautiful thing he’s seen during his time aboard the International Space Station. Glover, 44,...
View ArticleCourt rules Torrance can recoup underpaid utility taxes, but can it collect?
Southern California Edison improperly billed customers in Torrance, depriving the South Bay’s largest city – and potentially dozens of others in Southern California – of revenue from special taxes on...
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Carson city clerk quits for same post in Riverside
Carson City Clerk Donesia Gause-Aldana is leaving the city to assume the same post with the city of Riverside. (File photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer). Carson City Clerk Donesia Gause...
View ArticleLA County Fair returning in May 2022 for its 100th celebration
The Los Angeles County Fair is moving — not its location but its dates. Beginning in 2022, the fair will be held in the month of May rather than September, fair organizers announced in a prepared...
View ArticleBill would require doctors to disclose payments from drug, device manufacturers
New legislation inspired by a Studio City woman’s failed breast reconstruction surgery would force doctors in California to tell their patients annually about any money or gifts they receive from drug...
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40,000 charging stations for electric vehicles planned for Southern California
What will come first? More electric cars on California’s roadways or additional electric vehicle chargers? This chicken-and-egg problem has plagued the changeover from gasoline-powered to electric...
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Rancho Cucamonga Marine Dylan Merola saluted at funeral for ‘saving lives’
The last of the three Marines from the Inland Empire killed in the terrorist attack in Afghanistan five weeks ago was eulogized Sunday, Sept. 26, by family and friends as a courageous young man with a...
View ArticleOversight commission asks state to review LA County sheriff’s political...
Los Angeles County’s Civilian Oversight Commission, frustrated by Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s refusal to comply with its subpoenas and by his alleged intimidation of its members, is now asking county...
View ArticleInglewood will have its best revenues yet, but is still asking for tax increases
Inglewood’s latest budget indicates the city’s finances are in much better shape than elected officials suggested in early August, when they declared a fiscal emergency and placed two tax increases on...
View ArticleHere’s how you can help with the Huntington oil spill
Marine wildlife and habitat organizations say they’ve received an outpouring of support in the days since more than 126,000 gallons of oil leaked from a pipeline of an offshore rig near Long Beach,...
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Long-term impacts of Hyperion sewage spill could take a year or more to study
English sole fish and other marine life have been collected in the vicinity of the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant to determine whether the 17 million gallons of raw sewage discharged in July — and...
View ArticleInglewood mayor’s second accuser retracts lawsuit, alleges her lawyers lied
A former media consultant has withdrawn a sexual harassment lawsuit filed earlier this month against Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. and is now accusing her attorneys of embellishing the...
View ArticleRare Apple computer owned by former Chaffey College student sells for $500,000
An old Apple computer found in the home of a former Chaffey College student sold for $500,000 earlier this week after a tense bidding war. The winning bid for the Apple-1 computer was received from a...
View ArticleNew bill would close loophole used by school districts to hide how much they pay
A bill introduced Friday, Feb. 4, in the California Legislature would close a loophole allowing school districts to avoid reporting how much they pay their employees to the state controller each year....
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Hospitals in Southern California turning the corner on COVID-19 and omicron
Sharp decreases in several key coronavirus metrics across Southern California during the past two weeks are a strong indication that the winter omicron virus surge has peaked. While public health...
View ArticleGoing to Super Bowl LVI? Here are the best ways to get there
Los Angeles’ notorious traffic — deemed some of the worst in America — will get a whole lot worse this weekend, thanks to the Super Bowl. SoFi Stadium seats a minimum 70,000 people, but that capacity...
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42 million gallons of sewage entered L.A. waterways in past 15 years
Roughly two-thirds of the 70 million gallons of sewage spilled in Los Angeles County since 2007 ended up in a storm drain or a river connected to the Pacific Ocean, according to analysis of 15 years of...
View ArticleLong Beach City Council votes to support stricter rules on ghost guns
Ghost guns — or privately made, unserialized firearms that are nearly impossible to track — are a concern for Long Beach, officials said at their April 12 City Council meeting. Last year, the Long...
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