Arcadia News

Arcadia's Hero Sgt. Kyle A. Colnot was 23-years-old when he was killed by a makeshift bomb that exploded near his military Humvee, setting it on fire on April 22, 2006, according to the Washington Post.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote this week on a proposal to tax homeowners an average of $54 per parcel to raise funds to treat polluted storm water before it reaches local lakes and beaches.

City officials now estimate the public cost of the December windstorm around $14.5 million - that's about $2.5 million less than estimated earlier this year.

Arcadia residents receiving service from Waste Management will have their garbage and recycling picked up one day later than normally scheduled next week due to the Memorial Day holiday.

Danny Saunders, 20 of Arcadia, talks about working for the Student Conservation Association's Angeles Wildfire Recovery Project at the Wildwood Picnic Area in Big Tujunga Canyon in the Angeles National Forest in 2011.

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County fell for the seventh consecutive day on Wednesday, dropping 1 cent to $4.346, one day after decreasing seven-tenths of a cent, according to City News Service.

Police arrested a Duarte man and man and woman from La Puente Wednesday on suspicion of breaking into a Panorama Drive home.

The county Board of Supervisors is expected to vote next month on a proposal to tax homeowners about $54 per parcel to raise funds to treat polluted storm water before it reaches local lakes and beaches.

Two days later than planned, Colorado Boulevard between San Antonio Road and Santa Anita Avenue might close Wednesday to make way for the $735 million Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension project from Pasadena to Azusa.

The new supervisor of the Angeles National Forest, Tom Contreras, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center, 1750 N. Altadena Drive, on recovery efforts since the devastating 2009 Station Fire that burned 160,000 acres of the forest.

Adelyn "Addie" Pokrajac, whoA was part owner of the Coterie giftA shop andA member of A the Assistance League of Arcadia for many years, died at the age of 87.

Campbell's Soup products stand on a store shelf on September 11, 2008 in Arcadia, California.

La Caada High School placed 39th among its California peers in the 2012 U.S. News & World Report rankings released May 7, and school board Vice President Ellen Multari was justifiably pleased.

A new Propel gas station in Fullerton is first to offer biodiesel and ethanol at the pump pictured May 2012.

Arcadia resident Thomas McKernan recently retired as CEO of the Automobile Club of Southern California, but he will remain active with the organization as chairman of the board and in other capacities.

But they were rescued and reunited with their mother, thanks to a La Habra animal control officer, a city public works employee and a police officer.

Police warned residents to prepare for four weeks of intermittent closures on a portion of West Colorado Boulevard beginning Monday to accommodate construction of the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension light rail project.

A wounded Hacienda Heights man showed up at an area hospital late Thursday following an apparently gang-related stabbing, police said.

Opening arguments are expected to be heard today in the second murder trial of an Alhambra man accused of killing his girlfriend and hiding her body in a trash can at a friend's house in Arcadia nearly five years ago.

Americans plan to travel in slightly higher numbers this summer, according to surveys, starting with the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.