From the Archives: Imperial Valley flooding left by Tropical Storm Doreen
Imperial Valley farms still flooded a week after Tropical Storm Doreen.
California gets last-minute REAL ID extension
California narrowly averted a major crisis for travelers taking to the sky this year after the Department of Homeland Security granted it a last-minute extension to meet REAL ID requirements, despite the government shutdown. If California hadn’t received the extension and homeland security hadn’t officially certified it met the REAL ID requirements, it would have…
Judge rules that LAUSD teachers’ strike can begin on Monday as negotiations continue
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge Thursday cleared the path for a Los Angeles teachers’ strike to start Monday. Whether it does, however, will depend on negotiations that resume Friday and could stretch into the weekend. Additional funding from the state budget could help bridge the gap…
At the border, Trump moves closer to emergency declaration
By CATHERINE LUCEY, LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLER , McALLEN, Texas — Taking the shutdown fight to the Mexican border, President Donald Trump edged closer Thursday to declaring a national emergency in an extraordinary end run around Congress to fund his long-promised border wall. Pressure was mounting to find an escape hatch from the three-week impasse…
The first all-girl troop applies to the Orange County Boy Scouts
Paige Holland had done so much with her brother, Michael, as she tagged along to Cub Scout camps. They shot arrows. They kayaked. They fired BB guns. But Michael aged out of the Cub Scouts, he soon was a Boy Scout, and Paige could no longer join him. “She felt like she was left in…
Placentia 82-year-old can swing kettlebells, hike trails with the best of them
She works out or hikes five days a week, she can deadlift about 150 pounds and she spent her birthday on Thursday, Jan. 10, at the gym doing a routine inspired by her age: 82. Marguerite Skaggs – her kids call her Marge, but she prefers Maggie – was in fairly good shape until she retired from…
Earthquake: 3.0 quake strikes near Scossa, Nev.
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Thursday three miles from Scossa, Nev., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:38 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 4.3 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 87 miles from Fernley, Nev., and 97 miles from Spanish…
Rain will start light, go heavy during a week of wet weather for Southern California
A rainstorm expected to reach Southern California on Friday night, Jan. 11, is not expected to generate flooding or debris flows in the footprints of last summer’s wildfires, but forecasters are watching a string of storms expected to follow well into next week. National Weather Service meteorologist Rich Thompson said Thursday there will be “a…
USA Gymnastics has not paid U.S. men’s national team members this month
The pursuit of competing in the Olympic Games has one constant: sacrifice. For former Oklahoma gymnast Allan Bower, it meant putting off medical school to train for the 2020 Olympic Games. Bower seemed to have everything to make his Olympic dream a reality and justify putting his other dream on hold. After helping the Sooners…
Carnival Cruise Line takes advertising campaign to the Southern California skies
Blimp pilot Terry Dillard navigates the Carnival Airship over the ocean off Long Beach on Thursday, January 10, 2019. The airship announces the upcoming arrival of Carnival Cruise LineÕs newest ship, the Carnival Panorama. It will be the first Carnival ship to homeport in California in 20 years. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)…