By Nico Savidge and Daniel J. Willis, EdSource Part three of a special report from EdSource revealing the extent of lead contamination in water in schools across California where water has been tested. Two years ago, McClymonds High School in Oakland found alarmingly high lead levels in water coming from a locker room shower. Water…
On Oct. 1, 1910, a bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building killing 20 and injuring about 100.
Public access to nearly every beach on the California coast will remain secure as the U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday, Oct. 1, it would not hear a challenge to the state Coastal Act. The 1976 law ensures that property owners cannot privatize beaches by preventing public entry. The lawsuit focused on Martins Beach, a remote beach…
Dozens of protesters joined survivors of sexual assault in Santa Ana on Sunday, Sept. 30 to support Christine Blasey Ford and denounce the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Roughly 60 demonstrators gathered at Sasscer Park in response to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing into Blasey Ford’s allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted…
Staying on a board while riding to shore can be ruff. But these four-legged surfer pups are pros, showing off their hot-dogging wave-riding style for a crowd in Huntington Beach on Saturday as part of the Surf City Surf Dog event. Homer Henard, of Santa Cruz, surfs with his dog Skyler during the annual Surf…
SAN DIEGO — A 13-year-old boy was expected to recover after a shark attacked him while he dived for lobsters in Southern California, hospital officials said Sunday. The teen, who was not identified, was in serious condition a day after he was bitten off the coast of Encinitas, a city north of San Diego, Rady…
Leftovers from tropical cyclone Rosa and a separate Pacific storm will both arrive over parched Southern California over the next few days, bringing flash flood watches for Inland deserts, debris flow concerns for burn areas, and high surf warnings for the coast. Rosa, heading from northern Baja toward southwest Arizona, will bring the first moisture…
Legendary Chicago blues guitarist Otis Rush, whose passionate, jazz-tinged music influenced artists including Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin, died Saturday at the age of 84, his longtime manager said. Rush succumbed to complications from a stroke he suffered in 2003, manager Rick…
A 13-year-old boy diving for lobster was attacked by a shark Saturday morning near Beacon’s Beach in Encinitas, leaving him with traumatic upper body wounds, authorities said. The attack occurred just before 7 a.m. off Neptune Avenue at the foot of Leucadia Boulevard, an hour into opening day of…
Everything was looking good Wednesday night at the High-Speed Rail Authority’s big meeting in Pacoima. California’s bullet train officials set up nifty information stations in the Hubert H. Humphrey rec center gymnasium, spectators printed questions on yellow cards, and the meeting began with an…
