Chatsworth News Archives

Alteran Technologies, developer of customized workflow solutions for media and entertainment, has announced the launch of ADIVA, its new video content digitization and encoding hardware/software system solution.

CRS Jet Spares, a leading corporate aviation supplier, has announced their 'Destination West Coast' program designed to provide exceptional support to the West Coast aviation community.

Although Metrolink safety lapses drew national attention last year when 25 people were killed in a head-on collision with a freight train, many more have died from commuter trains hitting automobiles and pedestrians.

A late-night stabbing on one of the busiest blocks of Isla Vista sent one man to the hospital and authorities have arrested two men in connection with the assault.

I'm sure by now everyone has read of our city's recent effort to shore up a crumbling economy by laying off some 900 workers and furloughing thousands of others, a la Sacramento.

The last thing Junior Taylor wants to believe is that nearly two and a half years ago, his daughter was beaten to death by her husband in their suburban Castaic home.

An agressive ad campaign for the new Jay Leno Show includes bus stops like this one in Chatsworth, CA.

Until Metrolink installs computer systems designed to prevent train collisions, Sen.

Two California men have been arrested and a third man is wanted on charges they conspired to steal more than $300,000 in insurance proceeds from victims of Hurricane Katrina.

One year after 25 people died in a violent head-on collision between a Metrolink passenger train and freight train, officials have cobbled together more than $74 million to pay for an automatic train-stopping system along Southern California tracks to keep it from happening again.

A plaque memorializing the 25 Metrolink commuters killed and scores injured a year ago today in a head-on collision with a freight train was unveiled at Stoney Point Park, but promised safety measures have yet to be implemented.

A Metrolink train crew ran a red light during a safety test Thursday, prompting transit officials to stop the train and delay some of its Ventura County and Antelope Valley lines.

Today's anniversary of the Chatsworth Metrolink disaster will yank again at the emotional tear in the tightly woven fabric of the Hefter family.

The people who investigate the nation's most high-profile transportation accidents must now practice what they preach: They will no longer be allowed to use cellphones while driving.

As the anniversary of the Sept. 12 Chatsworth train disaster approaches, officials with Southern California's sprawling commuter rail service are facing a vexing array of technical, financial and potential legal challenges as they struggle to deliver on pledges of trailblazing safety reforms.

It's been 50 weeks since a Metrolink commuter train plowed head-on into a freight train, and the leading car of westbound trains are still largely unused by commuters, it was reported Sunday.

Here are some of the steps Metrolink has taken and plans to take to make its trains safer: Safety measures already completed - A second engineer in the cab, when staffing permits.

On Sept. 12, 2008, at precisely 16:22:23 , exactly 1.25 miles past the Chatsworth Metrolink station on the Ventura County line, the world as 222 people knew it was unalterably shattered.

Metrolink's governing board voted Friday to replace Connex, the private firm that was running the commuter train system during last year's deadly crash in Chatsworth.