Rancho Palos Verdes News

L.A. County Board of Supervisors Chair Don Knabe has agendized the following item for action at the Nov.

Business interests saw mixed results in Tuesday's municipal elections as voters' reactions to tax measures varied widely.

PV'S PAST IN PICS: We were 10 in 1965 , when Marineland was making its biggest splash on Long Point, one of the many promontories of Palos Verdes Peninsula stabbing out into the deep blue sea.

Elections are set across Southern California today, to fill city council and school board seats in some areas and also to decide a bunch of ballot measures on a wide range of local issues.

City council and school board seats are up for grabs, and voter have several ballot measures to consider in Tuesday's elections.

Across Southern California, recession-pinched cities and school districts are asking their voters for help in Tuesday's local elections.

Eco-friendly clothing co Hass Libre will be the exclusive tee-shirt in this year's Latin GRAMMY Awards celebrating a decade of the The Latin Recording Academy 's. The materials used for clothing are natural hemp, organic cotton and bamboo fibers.

Parsons Corp., in conjunction with the Augusta Utilities Department in Georgia, recently marked the completion of the expanded Highland Avenue Water Treatment Plant with a dedication ceremony.

When the votes are tallied in Rancho Palos Verdes next week, the city will get a glimpse into its hazy political future.

Residents of Rancho Palos Verdes will have the opportunity to bring their city's transient occupancy tax to the level of many of its peer cities when they go to the polls Nov.

Rancho Palos Verdes. City staff will give a "lessons learned" presentation Tuesday night on the August fire that burned 181 acres of the Portuguese Bend Nature Preserve and 28 acres in Rolling Hills.

When do we go off daylight saving time this year? - Wes Mason Rancho Palos Verdes In the United States, daylight saving time ends this year on Nov.

The recent benefit hosted by Harbor Interfaith Services Auxiliary at the Terranea Resort was a sell out.

What's up with the construction notices on Hawthorne Boulevard in Rancho Palos Verdes? They say construction will start Oct.

More than 450 members of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women gathered at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles Oct.

Tammie Johnson communes with a colony of cats at the vacant Hawthorne Plaza Mall.

An anonymous questioner who falsely accused two Palos Verdes Peninsula school board candidates of failing to vote has caused a flap during a simmering campaign season.

Walter Shields died suddenly on Sept. 14 at home in Torrance at age 86. Shields, whose real name was Wladziu Szulc, was born in Poland, but got out with his parents before the Germans showed up hungry.

A San Pedro physician pleaded no contest on Thursday to sexually assaulting two women.

A 21-year-old local man was killed late Thursday when his speeding car struck the center divider and rolled over several times on a Rancho Palos Verdes roadway.