La Canada Flintridge News

Despite a gloomy June, Los Angeles is poised today to record its fourth year in a row with below normal rainfall.

The Spirit rover is stuck in the Red Planet's fluffy soil, so engineers at JPL have re-created the scene in a sandbox to figure out how to get it free.

An area lawmaker is pushing for a bill that would help bolster state legislative offices science analysis by bringing 10 Ph.D recipients aboard.

As the San Fernando Valley ends its fourth weather year of drought Tuesday, scientists are eyeing a possible El Nino for a chance of serious rain next season.

Michael Jackson's shockingly sudden death last week stirred memories of his Pasadena connections, dating back to the 1983 performance at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium that arguably set him on the road to pop icon-dom. That's when he caused a sensation with his famed moonwalk, seen for the first time during the taping of an NBC concert special, ...

The Pasadena Pops Orchestra opened its last summer season at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge last weekend with a pair of concerts named after Louis Moreau Gottschalk's neglected symphony "A Night in the Tropics." They opened the evening with that symphony's almost-jazzy second movement, written half a century before jazz, and followed it, ...

IT still buckles my knees. The day I found out a high school classmate died of AIDS.

My colleague George Skelton is on a break today, and I'm a last-minute fill-in, which gives me a chance to clear a few things off my desk, beginning with the mysterious story of a missing horse.

A truck driver whose big-rig smashed into a Los Angeles-area bookstore, killing a girl and her dad, now faces murder charges.

An indictment unsealed Friday brought murder charges against the driver of a big-rig that lost its brakes while descending a steep mountain grade north of Los Angeles and hit a car, killing a father and his 12-year-old daughter.

Following news of that Joseph Eichler-designed home aka McDonalds ad set in Granada Hills , comes this listing for a four-bedroom, two-bath home in La Canada Flintridge that's asking $690,525. "Popular Rancho area of La Canada.

In a major economic downturn, symbolism isn't everything - you can't take it to the bank.

Facing multibillion-dollar state funding cuts, school districts across California are asking residents to tax themselves to fund local schools.

William D. Burrows, who was deeply embedded the civic life of his adopted city for more than half a century, has died, his family announced Monday.

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. -- It's a case of buyer's remorse -- only without the buying.

It's a case of buyer's remorse - only without the buying. In the Southern California city of La Canada Flintridge east of Los Angeles, police say a shoplifter who snatched a $1,500 purse from a boutique has returned the handbag to the store together with a note apologizing for the theft.

A bipartisan team of legislators is seeking to change the state constitution to allow the Legislature to make laws affecting UC Riverside and its sister campuses.

The islands of "Aloha" set the tone for "Tropical Fling," the ninth annual fund-raiser staged by the Friends of Foothill Family on May 16.

A child enjoy walking on paving stones through Nature's Table garden at Descanso Garden in La Canada Flintridge Thursday, May 21, 2009.

As soon as a giant pair of scissors sliced through a big red ribbon Wednesday, a detachment of bikers and one driver showing off his 1964 Corvette immediately rumbled onto Angeles Crest Highway.