North Hollywood News

Los Angeles police will set up DUI checkpoints in Silver Lake tonight and North Hollywood on Saturday night.

And judging by Kristen Stewart's choice of outfit at today's Los Angles screening of Snow White and The Huntsman, perhaps the actress is running out of options.

A 4-mile extension to the Orange Line busway will open at the end of June, officials announced Tuesday, allowing commuters a one-seat ride from Chatsworth to the Red Line subway station in North Hollywood.

North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake quarterback Chad Kanoff , had his first offer come from Vanderbilt earlier this spring.

After 31 years, military historian and researcher Henry Sakaida has finally closed his most perplexing wartime investigation.

The city of Los Angeles, in compliance with court orders, will void the entitlements of a 12,000-square-foot synagogue in a Sherman Oaks residential neighborhood.A Chabad House, which is currently under construction at Chabad of North Hollywood at 13079 Chandler Boulevard, is nearly complete, but the future of the building is in jeopardy after City ... (more)

Cogbill took the 3 a.m. shifts at the St. Eugene's Cathedral's Perpetual Adoration Chapel so the church would always be open to those who needed a safe place to pray.

Cue the violins. The end of this school year is bound to bring a spate of desperate pleas from people who owe their salvation to programs that are on the chopping block in the cash-strapped Los Angeles Unified School District .

Five people were in custody Friday but three others were being sought as part of a nearly two-year federal investigation into firearms and drug violations in the Hollywood and San Fernando Valley areas, authorities said.

With extra officers on the streets, Los Angeles police officers will conduct beefed-up patrols this Memorial Day Holiday Weekend and staff checkpoints in a campaign to make sure drivers are sober and properly licensed.

Getting Out: Simi Valley Cajun & Blues Music Festival, Tower of Power concert at The Greek, Glenn Frey concert at The Wiltern Summer unofficially kicks off this long Memorial Day weekend, and if your plans involve staying close to home, you're in luck.

This is the first in a three-part series on Transit Oriented Development and Los Angeles.

The following press release is from Obama Pride: LGBT Americans for Obama, which kicked off its campaign with a meeting Tuesday at the North Hollywood home of Los Angeles County Democratic Party Chair and California Democratic Party Vice Chair Eric C. Bauman and his husband Michael Andraychak.

They had to be careful of the poison oak. Volunteer Park Ranger Ellen Lutwak noted that when some of Congressman Howard Berman's team were placing signs to the entrance of Berman Trail at Franklin Canyon Park in Beverly Hills Tuesday morning, they were putting them in a big patch of poison oak.A "Rub some dirt on your hands and your exposed skin ... (more)

We all love knowing experienced baristas are the ones pouring our coffee, and that's exactly what you'll find at Paper or Plastik cafA©, located on West Pico Boulevard, near Fairfax.

Editor's note: These are Police/Fire stories from areas the San Fernando Valley east of the 405 Freeway not covered by Patch.

Next time you park your car anywhere in Los Angeles, make sure you carry some change to feed the meter or you could end up coughing up big bucks.

Did you know that National Bike to Work Day is celebrated annually on the third Friday of May? North Hollywood is a big and growing bike neighborhood and this is definitely a holiday we can celebrate.

Traffic Officer Lisa Figueroa issues a parking citation to a vehicle parked along a red curb in North Hollywood, May 17, 2012.

Los Angeles police warned today that they will be putting extra officers on the streets to look for drunken drivers, starting Thursday, and will also be checking drivers to make sure they are sober and properly licensed at checkpoint operations through the weekend.