Covina News

A plot of land on Workman Avenue littered with steal frames from a housing project gone astray may soon be transformed into a three-story apartment complex meant to fill a lack of senior housing in the city.

The City Council tonight will consider approving a housing subsidy program to assist graduates of the McGill Street Transitional housing program.

Police officers uncovered a small chop shop Thursday night after responding to a tip, officials said Friday.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday announced that he has appointed two local men to state posts.

The City Council Tuesday extended an extra helping hand to homeless families who are part of the McGill Street Transitional program.

A West Covina man was jailed on suspicion of drunken driving Wednesday after he rear-ended a woman's car at an intersection, police said.

The 6th Annual Showcase of Bands Field Show Tournament will be held tonight at the Covina-Valley Unified School's District field.

Although he doesn't know anything about her, former Army Sgt. David Moreno still remembers the name of the little girl who sent him a box of cookies while he was serving in Iraq in 2004.

As students make the transition from middle school to high school, they suffer from growing pains.

A water main break on San Bernardino Road in an unincorporated county area near Covina sent water pouring down Shadydale Avenue Wednesday, entertaining local children who danced through the stream.

The Covina chapter of the Assistance League recently received a $10,000 education grant from Verizon Corporation, according to a statement from officials.

Sonia Rivera figured out her strategy early on. After walking into the plastic globe in front of San Dimas Liquor on Friday morning, she crouched her knees, outstretched her forearms, opened her palms and the let the wind do all the work.

A 59-year-old driver led police on a slow-speed chase Wednesday night, apparently because he didn't understand he was supposed to pull over for the lights and sirens behind him.

City officials hope that the extreme makeover of an abandoned home improvement store will result in jobs and sales tax dollars when the project is complete in 2012.

A Compton man faces murder charges in the slaying of a 20-year-old man whose body was discovered in August near a walking trail in the Shadow Oak neighborhood, officials said Thursday.

Pauline Mata and Peter Sabasino have become the fifth and sixth dancers to be eliminated from So You Think You Can Dance .

The Lakes development in West Covina has lost another tenant, setting off efforts to revitalize the development.

Family members and friends on Tuesday mourned the loss of a 21-year-old community college student who died Sunday night when the van in which she was riding overturned in Kern County.

Three local banks refused to set up memorial funds for the family of a 6-year-old Cameron Elementary student who died after being crushed by a falling television set, school officials said Monday.

The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner identified a woman whose body was found buried along Mt.