Bonita Unified's financial stability is paying off. Officials recently announced the district's credit rating will save taxpayers $1.5 million in interest payments on the Measure AB bond, which was passed by voters in November 2008.

For the past year, they have been soldiers, preserving peace thousands of miles away from home.

The Highlander caught up with La Verne Mayor Don Kendrick and San Dimas Mayor Curtis Morris to find out their thoughts on their cities.

An attractive, blue-eyed woman with long blonde hair seemed like she was in the most unlikely of places.

They say knowing your enemy is half the battle. For Anna Brown, that enemy is Alzheimer's - it took lives of her uncle, a friend and her neighbor.

Facing a $1 million budget shortfall, city officials turned to a tried-and-true practice for gaining financial flexibility.

In the long checklist of tasks to become a member of the California State Bar, swearing in might be one of the least taxing things you'll have to do.

Its sound is sweet and its bond is strong. Sounds of Harmony, a barbershop quartet singing group, has seen its share of high and low notes - figuratively and literally.

Margaret Ramirez does not want to pay a license fee for her dog Jackie - because Jackie is dead.

One city councilman is petitioning that the county handle Walnut's elections, claiming the city-run election allows "wholesale ballot fraud." Most cities in the San Gabriel Valley pay the county to conduct elections.

The Colton City Council has chosen Assistant Upland City Manager Rod Foster as Colton's new city manager.

Early results showed voter support for local community college board incumbents.

Autumn is a time of transformation, a period when days grow shorter, weather turns erratic and most living things show signs of age.

An advocate for open government believes the West Covina School District has violated state open-government laws several times.

"Leonardo, played by sophomore Danny Bride , struggles against the Bridegroom, freshman Alexander Clague while the Bride, senior Natasha Velasco , is caught in-between during a scene from the University of La Verne Theatre Arts Department production of Frederico Garcia Lorca's tragic play "Blood Wedding." . For more than 75 years, Federico Garcia ...

Rent your own garden plot at the Peace & Carrots Community Garden for $40 for the year, or $25 for six months.

It was almost four years in coming but National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Andrew McKindley of Rancho Cucamonga has finally received his Purple Heart medal.

The creative winners winners are Rosa Hopper of San Diego, Shelly Mayo of Brentwood and Colleen Rose of La Verne.

"There's just enough hideous expectations to satisfy teenagers and young children, but no blood, guts or gore to give anybody nightmares," bragged Friends of La Verne Library President Jay Fugitt about the library's popular Halloween Haunted House attraction.

City officials have pitched a potential multimillion- dollar renovation and expansion of City Hall to its residents.