Vernon News

A regional water board Wednesday agreed to issue $45 million in bonds that will help pay for a 12-mile recycled water line from Pico Rivera to Vernon.

A woman suspected of fatally shooting another woman on Skid Row was arrested after being chased by witnesses into the arms of a Los Angele Police Department motorcycle officer.

Violent crime struck Rita Chairez's family in Elysian Park not once but twice. Her youngest brother Gustavo, 22, was killed when a fight broke out during his birthday celebration April 22, 1990.

Police searched Thursday for whoever killed a young man in a drive-by shooting in Boyle Heights.

The City Council put its support behind much of City Attorney Bob Shannon's draft ordinance to regulate medical marijuana collectives Tuesday, but cut some of the more restrictive requirements from the law.

Anita Posey Lowe shows off her one-of-a-kind pottery during last year's Autumn Art Studios Tour.

There is some good news on the job-front. More than 1,000 local jobs were created or saved because of the $787 billion federal stimulus package.

Sometimes, the little guys actually do win. On Sept. 29, the City of Vernon walked away from its dragged-out, no-holds-barred battle to build a combined-cycle power plant using three natural gas-fired combustion turbines and one steam turbine to crank out 943 megawatts of electricity - along with enough small particle matter to kill up to 33 men, ...

At the 2009 Business Outlook Conference on Friday, Oct. 2, Tehachapi Mayor Linda Vernon asked one last question before turning over the microphone: "Will we see the glass half-full, or half-empty?" A slew of speakers offered a glimpse of both.

From their perch on a forklift, two men wave their arms and call out to Charlie Bohnhoff as he walks into the lumberyard his family has owned for nearly a century.

There's the Redlands Bicycle Classic and the Tour de France. Grand Terrace used to have its own bicycle race called the Tour de Terrace about 20 years ago.

Does Los Angeles-area state Sen. Roderick Wright live in the district he represents? Where the veteran Democrat currently makes his home doesn't actually matter under state law, elections experts say.

The industrial city of Vernon has abandoned a three-year-old proposal to build a 943-megawatt power plant bitterly opposed by the communities that surround it.

BNSF says California's application for stimulus funds will help improve the state's freight mobility and economy FORT WORTH, Texas - BNSF Railway Company today said that the state of California's application for a $27 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant for truck efficiency improvements at BNSF's Hobart Intermodal ...

The call came at 8:35 a.m. Tuesday. A woman was wandering along 7th Street in downtown Los Angeles, holding a baby in one arm and waving a steak knife with the other.

Add police chief to the list of departing city executives in this town of 1,400 people.

Van's Wheat-Free Homestyle Pancakes have been recalled because they contain undeclared wheat, gluten, milk and egg.

At a time when government agencies are cutting back on law enforcement, health care for children and services for the poor, the number of public servants collecting $100,000-plus pensions - including one raking in nearly $500,000 a year - has exploded in recent years, in some cases tripling or even increasing sevenfold.

Tehachapi City Council members renewed their vow to battle the State of California, which City Manager Greg Garrett said is maneuvering to grab $443,062 in Tehachapi Redevelopment Agency funds to help balance its out-of-whack budget.

If you happen to be traveling to and from the Montclair Plaza using Moreno Street don't be alarmed by the water.