Articles for San Fernando

Bass gets a pick for Metro. Will it be a Valley person?
1 week, 2 days ago

Bass gets a pick for Metro. Will it be a Valley person?

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. With more than 1.8 million residents, the San Fernando Valley makes up nearly one-fifth of the county’s population, said City Councilmember Adrin Nazarian, who took office on Monday, replacing Krekorian. — MORE MIDTERM MOVES: Former City Councilmember Kevin de León’s press spokesperson, Pete Brown, now has …

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Column: Gavin Newsom’s failure to close Aliso Canyon is hurting us all
1 week, 4 days ago

Column: Gavin Newsom’s failure to close Aliso Canyon is hurting us all

LA Times  

Environmental activists and San Fernando Valley residents urge Gov. Linda Serizawa, who was tapped by Newsom to lead the utilities commission’s Public Advocates Office, said state officials have to be “very careful about setting unrealistic expectations” when it comes to closing Aliso. SoCalGas spokesperson Erica Berardi said in an email that the utility agrees with state officials that Aliso Canyon …

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High school basketball: Wednesday’s scores from boys’ and girls’ games
1 week, 4 days ago

High school basketball: Wednesday’s scores from boys’ and girls’ games

LA Times  

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS BOYS Adelanto 59, Ridgecrest Burroughs 44 Agoura 76, Royal 65 Anaheim Canyon 85, Murrieta Valley 77 Arleta 65, San Fernando 55 Animo Watts 47, Magnolia Science 23 Bernstein 81, Roybal 61 Birmingham 69, Bolsa Grande 31 Brentwood 52, Arcadia 51 Cajon 58, Rialto 53 Capistrano Valley 60, Laguna Beach 40 Capistrano Valley Christian 66, Troy …

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15 of the best places to go for Christmas
54 years, 11 months ago

15 of the best places to go for Christmas

CNN  

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. “The Christmas City” also has horse-drawn carriage rides, holiday libations, historic tree displays and decor aplenty. In “the little city of wood and cloth,” visitors to market booths can find traditional, often handmade Christmas decorations, wooden toys and all sorts of food and drink. It’s even the home …

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15 of the best places to go for Christmas
54 years, 11 months ago

15 of the best places to go for Christmas

CNN  

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. “The Christmas City” also has horse-drawn carriage rides, holiday libations, historic tree displays and decor aplenty. In “the little city of wood and cloth,” visitors to market booths can find traditional, often handmade Christmas decorations, wooden toys and all sorts of food and drink. It’s even the home …

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Here are L.A. County’s three new members of Congress
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Here are L.A. County’s three new members of Congress

LA Times  

Los Angeles County voters in deep-blue districts elected three new Democrats to the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. The Associated Press called three congressional races in favor of Luz Rivas in the San Fernando Valley, Laura Friedman in central Los Angeles and Gil Cisneros in the San Gabriel Valley. The safely Democratic district includes the city of San Fernando …

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Contest tightens for LAUSD school board seat in San Fernando Valley; school bond well ahead
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Contest tightens for LAUSD school board seat in San Fernando Valley; school bond well ahead

LA Times  

A key race for a Board of Education seat in the San Fernando Valley has tightened, with two-term incumbent Scott Schmerelson’s lead over challenger Dan Chang shrinking to less than three percentage points Wednesday morning. Politics 2024 Los Angeles County elections results Latest vote counts for district attorney, Board of Supervisors and county measures as well as local races for …

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I toured L.A.’s Rim of the Valley by plane. Here’s why we need to protect it
1 month, 3 weeks ago

I toured L.A.’s Rim of the Valley by plane. Here’s why we need to protect it

LA Times  

Residential development at the edge of the Rim of the Valley, public land that activists hope to see added to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. For decades environmental activists and elected officials have tried to pass legislation that would add thousands of acres of the Rim of the Valley corridor to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. …

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Rare bear sighting in San Fernando Valley appears to be the same ‘nomadic’ female
2 months, 1 week ago

Rare bear sighting in San Fernando Valley appears to be the same ‘nomadic’ female

LA Times  

National Park Service biologists captured and radio-collared a 210-pound black bear, a male bear, dubbed BB-12, in a natural area of the western Santa Monica Mountains south of the 101 Freeway on April 23, 2023. A very well-traveled black bear appears to still be traversing the Santa Monica Mountains, leading to another rare spotting of the female bear in the …

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San Fernando Valley gets 100 license plate-reading cameras to help police crack down on crime
2 months, 2 weeks ago

San Fernando Valley gets 100 license plate-reading cameras to help police crack down on crime

LA Times  

An automated license plate reader is mounted on a pole in June in San Francisco. The Bay Area city has installed 100 automated license plate readers and plans to install 300 more as officials look to technology to help combat crime in the city. Automated license plate reader camera technology is already used by the Los Angeles Police Department, however, …

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68 indicted in bust of Peckerwoods white supremacist gang in San Fernando Valley
2 months, 3 weeks ago

68 indicted in bust of Peckerwoods white supremacist gang in San Fernando Valley

LA Times  

Evidence submitted by federal prosecutors in the indictment against members of the Peckerwoods gang included photos of an alleged member covered with tattoos including swastikas and other Nazi symbols, left, and a cache of drugs, cash and a weapon seized in a raid on a suspected member’s home in June. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday indicted 68 alleged members and affiliates …

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Honeywell will fund cleanup of contaminated groundwater in San Fernando Valley, EPA says
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Honeywell will fund cleanup of contaminated groundwater in San Fernando Valley, EPA says

LA Times  

A worker assembles parts of an ultraviolet water treatment system at the LADWP Tujunga Spreading Grounds facility, where the agency is cleaning up contaminated groundwater in the San Fernando Valley. The EPA said the facilities will treat groundwater in a portion of the San Fernando Valley Superfund site, enabling the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to use the …

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With $893-million grant, San Fernando Valley gets closer to seeing return of rail service
3 months, 2 weeks ago

With $893-million grant, San Fernando Valley gets closer to seeing return of rail service

LA Times  

L.A. Metro announced a federal grant to help fund a 6.7-mile light rail line through Van Nuys, Panorama City, Arleta and Pacoima. After years of lobbying by local officials and advocates for more public transportation in the San Fernando Valley, L.A. Metro announced an $893-million federal grant that will help fund a new rail line for residents there. Trying to …

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Condenas en México no apaciguan demandas de justicia en masacres de migrantes
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Condenas en México no apaciguan demandas de justicia en masacres de migrantes

LA Times  

Activistas colocan un “antimonumento” afuera de la Embajada de Estados Unidos en la Ciudad de México en 2020 para conmemorar el décimo aniversario de las Masacres de San Fernando. El caso, al que a menudo se hace referencia simplemente como San Fernando, marcó el comienzo de una era oscura en la que los descubrimientos de fosas clandestinas se hicieron cada …

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Convictions in Mexico fail to quell demands for justice in massacres of migrants
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Convictions in Mexico fail to quell demands for justice in massacres of migrants

LA Times  

Activists place an “anti-monument” outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City in 2020 to mark the 10th anniversary of the San Fernando massacres. “The government plan for years has been to render these criminal acts and extreme violations of human rights as invisible as possible.” The protracted episode has been “shameful,” said Marcela Turati, a Mexican journalist whose book “San …

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Sondheimer: Looking back on six decades of covering high school football
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Sondheimer: Looking back on six decades of covering high school football

LA Times  

It’s high school football season No. Granada Hills lost 42-14 earlier in the season to Carson, but it’s a sneak peek of what’s to come in City Section football, where the team that lost in the regular season would win the rematch in coming years. “There weren’t a bunch of future college football players on but a lot of good …

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What it was like dating in Madras in the sixties
4 months ago

What it was like dating in Madras in the sixties

The Hindu  

Love happens on railway platforms. ”Last train to San Fernando, last train to San Fernando, If you miss this one, you’ll never get another one, Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando.” The stations at Chennai Central and Egmore were no different. Like the ripening of mangoes that have to be wrapped in newspaper and stored in a dark room, or home-made wine, …

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Dan 50 años de cárcel a 11 hombres por 122 cadáveres hallados en fosas en el noreste de México
4 months ago

Dan 50 años de cárcel a 11 hombres por 122 cadáveres hallados en fosas en el noreste de México

Associated Press  

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO — Once hombres fueron sentenciados a 50 años de prisión por una serie de asesinatos ocurridos hace más de una década, cuando 122 personas fueron obligadas a bajar de los autobuses en que viajaban en San Fernando y cuyos cadáveres fueron encontrados en diversas fosas clandestinas en esa localidad del estado mexicano de Tamaulipas, informó el miércoles …

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Final orange grove in the San Fernando Valley is likely to give way to luxury homes
4 months ago

Final orange grove in the San Fernando Valley is likely to give way to luxury homes

LA Times  

A century-old orange grove in Tarzana appears to be on its way to becoming the site of luxury homes, a transformation that would mark the end of commercial citrus farming in the San Fernando Valley, where the crop was once a mainstay. Los Angeles city planning officials held a public hearing Wednesday to collect comments before deciding whether to give …

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A mom was stabbed, burned and left next to California highway. Now there’s an arrest in her killing
4 months, 1 week ago

A mom was stabbed, burned and left next to California highway. Now there’s an arrest in her killing

LA Times  

Homicide detectives say they’ve solved the murder of a woman whose body was found stabbed and burned on the side of a highway in Bakersfield two years ago. A passing motorist found the body of 27-year-old Karla Terron on Dec. 17, 2022, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday, homicide investigators served an arrest …

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‘Need $ for drugs’: Burglar leaves sticky note at San Fernando restaurant
4 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Need $ for drugs’: Burglar leaves sticky note at San Fernando restaurant

LA Times  

When a San Fernando business owner discovered that his restaurant had been broken into twice this week, he found another surprise in the burglarized eatery: a note of apology from the thief. Teriyaki Madness on Truman Street had been burglarized Tuesday and Thursday; security cameras filmed the thief going through a shattered window and making a beeline for the cash …

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Backyard ADUs booming in L.A. County. Why these surprising cities are building the most
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Backyard ADUs booming in L.A. County. Why these surprising cities are building the most

LA Times  

Contractor Hector Lopez stands in front of an ADU he built for his daughter in San Fernando. Pools are nice, he said, but with ADUs, customers “know they’re going to get something back from them.” San Fernando is the capital of permitted ADUs in Los Angeles County, which is itself the epicenter of California’s housing shakeup. With nearly 70 ADUs …

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MV San Fernando to set sail for Colombo after successful Vizhinjam trial
5 months, 1 week ago

MV San Fernando to set sail for Colombo after successful Vizhinjam trial

New Indian Express  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: MV San Fernando, the first container ship that docked at the Vizhinjam International Seaport, will leave for Colombo after unloading the cargo. Sources said that the trial run with the vessel was successful and that the delay was anticipated since it was the first-ever operation at the port. The function attended by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Union Minister …

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Palakkad native Prajeesh lone Keralite on board San Fernando
5 months, 1 week ago

Palakkad native Prajeesh lone Keralite on board San Fernando

New Indian Express  

PALAKKAD: Ever since he joined the merchant navy in 2014, Prajeesh Govindaraj, a native of Palakkad, dreamt of sailing to Kerala, his homeland. Prajeesh is the lone Keralite on board MV San Fernando, the first mothership that docked at Vizhinjam International Seaport in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. Hailing from Vaniyamkulam in Palakkad, Prajeesh joined MV San Fernando’s 22-member crew, which has …

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