Chatsworth News

When Vinca are planted in the heat of summer, they are prime to be attacked by fungi, after which they often wilt and die.

The Orange Line busway extension from Woodland Hills to Chatsworth will follow the route of old Southern Pacific railroad tracks that crossed the Valley starting in 1888.

LOS ANGELES - Prompted by the deadly Metrolink crash in Chatsworth last fall, the Southern California commuter rail agency moved Friday to hire its own train crews, a step that would end its longtime practice of using engineers and conductors provided by a subcontractor.

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.

CONNECTIVITY is key. The ability to make seamless connections from bus to train to subway makes public transit faster, more convenient and more appealing to potential riders.

Elected officials and transportation leaders are expected to break ground Wednesday on an extension of the Metro Orange Line that will stretch the bus way from the San Fernando Valley to Chatsworth.

A ground-breaking ceremony will be held today for a $215.6 million extension of the Orange Line from Canoga Park to Chatsworth, which will enable busway commuters to connect with Metrolink by mid-2012. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will gather at 9 a.m. today at the Chatsworth Metrolink ...

Members of an Oakley church are asking for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by church trustees against a former pastor, his wife and a former church secretary.

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.

It's the heart of graduation season and we've got grad photos. Slide shows>> Santa Susana High School School district: Simi Valley Unified.

With steep state budget cuts under debate in Sacramento, Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to push for changes to CalWorks and other government aid programs they said would save nearly $270 million.

By DEBORAH DANIELS PDT Staff Writer Whether it's about reliving your childhood memories or sharing stories about meeting Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, everyone attending the Roy Rogers Festival agrees - Roy Rogers is a hometown hero.

Aitech has provided a low-power, radiation-tolerant 3U CompactPCI conduction-cooled bus avionics card set for the ATK Space Systems' Responsive Space Modular Bus used on the Tactical Satellite-3, which was successfully launched on May 19, 2009.

A long-festering family dispute led to the grisly stabbing of a Kennedy High School teacher by her 23-year-old son, who was in custody Tuesday after being detained by grieving relatives, police said.

CHATSWORTH, CA, May 29, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Responsible for overseeing all aspects of the manufacturing and procurement processes for Aitech's line of rugged computers and integrated subsystems optimized for harsh environments, Mantarakis will manage the company's assembly, quality and testing, planning and purchasing departments.

More than 300 vintage, classic and custom cars were on display at the sixth Annual Car Show and Safety Fair sponsored by LAPD's Valley Traffic Advisory Council, but perhaps no car drew more attention than a totaled Honda Civic, which Muriel Winter of Chatsworth looks at, to warn drivers about the consequences of driving under the influence.

Jeffrey Earle / Special to The Star Terry Hughes found this "extremely rare" gold nugget near Randsburg.

The Orange Line busway has been a success and there are many good reasons to expand the service.

The U.S. Small Business Administration's Los Angeles district office will use a Southern California food manufacturing plant May 28 to tout major savings small businesses can obtain under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act signed by President Obama last February.

Companies mentioned in this article: Aitech Defense Systems Inc. CHATSWORTH, Calif.