West Hills News

The Justin Timberlake movie " Alpha Dog " finally has an ending ... the guy it was based on was just convicted of the kidnap and murder of the kid who died in the movie.

I live in West Hills, nee Canoga Park, not to be confused with the one-worded Westhills that's really in the hills adjacent to us overlooking the Valley.

The west San Fernando Valley will get its newest senior center this fall and another is in the planning stages to meet the growing needs of the baby boomer generation exploding into the senior population.

Three men are behind bars today following a month-long investigation into an alleged cocaine dealing operation in Ventura County, authorities said.

The Los Angeles district attorney issued search warrants this week at several Ivy Academia campuses, one of the state's top performing charter schools, in connection with an ongoing investigation, officials said Wednesday.

BEFORE the spring of 1989, all most people knew of the Santa Susana Field Lab were the occasional rocket tests that sent a thundering boom across the Valley and shook the homes in West Hills, Chatsworth and Simi Valley, near the hilltop facility.

Free nicotine patches and gum will be given out to Los Angeles County residents on a first come first serve basis in a bid to get tens of thousands of people to kick the habit.

Actor Tommy Chong sits in his 1946 Oldsmobile low rider that he had equiped to become an electric car.

While the number of anti-Semitic incidents nationwide declined in 2008, the number of incidents increased 21 percent in California largely due to the increase in greater Los Angeles, according to newly-issued statistics from the Anti-Defamation League .

If you are bitten by a rattlesnake, here's what you should do: Avoid painkillers and ice.

Reporting from Santa Barbara -- Jesse James Hollywood was pacing and chain-smoking. He had just told a family friend, attorney Stephen Hogg, that his pals had kidnapped the brother of a tough guy who had smashed windows at his home, threatened him and poisoned his dog.

An upswing in anti-Semitic attacks in the Los Angeles area accounted for much of the 21.5 percent rise of such crimes statewide in 2008, compared with the previous year, the Anti-Defamation League reported today.

John Cappi and Jeff Jost use their GPS devices to locate a cache. Cappi and Jost take part in geocaching, a hightech sport centered around the use of handheld GPS navigation devices.

Thumbs up to Vince Motte, 95, dubbed "Mr. Coalinga" by townspeople in the southwest Fresno County community, for his generosity and his love of the city.

Hundreds of households are sitting in the dark Sunday, because of troubles with an underground circuit, officials said.

Jason Bubier of Oroville took over the top spot among the bass fishing pros after the second day Friday in the three-day Stren Series Western Division tournament on Lake Oroville.

Local teen artist Michael Goodman unveils his fledgling oeuvre of paintings and drawings from his early childhood to the present in the solo exhibition, "Under 17/Unrestricted," which includes abstracts, portraits and nudes.

After nearly a decade of environmental activist work on the continued cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab , the efforts of Topanga resident and realtor William Preston Bowling and West Hills resident Christina Walsh are beginning to pay off as their museum is fast becoming the center for research on chemical and nuclear dangers in the local ...

Summer party is fun! I love it because kids can have fun outdoors, regardless of what party games and activities are available.

This could shatter Los Angeles' self-image as one of the world's sunny, happy, carefree capitals of the good life.