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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Antelope Valley fire slayings are not connected, authorities say

California | Local | By Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton | June 26, 2008
Sometime Monday, someone entered a Quartz Hill home, killed four people, including a NASA systems analyst, and set the home ablaze. Read more
 

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Now we are happy again’

California | Local | By Ann M. Simmons | May 17, 2008
The phone call to Tom Shiokari came last July. Read more
 

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Lancaster jail expansion plan hits opposition

California | Local | By Ann M. Simmons | April 13, 2008
Fearful that their area might be getting more criminals from throughout Los Angeles County, some residents of the Antelope Valley voiced concerns Saturday over a proposal to expand Lancaster’s Mira Loma Detention Center complex. Read more
 

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Homes project is at a crossroads

California | Local | March 16, 2008
Hundreds of thousands of drivers daily thread their way through the spaghetti-like interchange of Interstate 5 and the Antelope Valley Freeway, and some may well recall its spectacular collapse in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Read more
 

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Antelope Valley communities weigh benefits of development

California | Local | March 11, 2008
The stunning skyline drew Edith Jeske to small-town Acton 35 years ago, the rugged Sierra Pelona to the north and the snow-capped San Gabriel summits to the south. Read more
 

Friday, February 29, 2008

Stoic little town faces tomorrow

California | Local | February 29, 2008
Sigfried Carrle angled his farmer’s hat into a forceful wind roaring across the Antelope Valley. Read more
 

Thursday, December 13, 2007

California in Brief | LOS ANGELES COUNTY - Health alert issued over cold weather

California | Local | By Monte Morin | December 13, 2007
County health officials are warning Antelope Valley residents, particularly the very young and very old, to limit their exposure outdoors during a cold snap expected to continue through Thursday night. Read more
 

Sunday, October 14, 2007

There’s no escape route’

California | Local | By Deborah Schoch and Jason Song | October 14, 2007
Big-rig drivers say they dread the tunnel. Read more
 

Crash severs a vital state artery

California | Local | By Jean-Paul Renaud and Ann Simmons, Ari B. Bloomekatz | October 14, 2007
The fiery Interstate 5 truck crash that killed at least three people south of Santa Clarita has severed the state’s main north-south transportation artery for an indefinite period, authorities said Saturday. Read more
 

North-south route will be shut for days

California | Local | By Dan Weikel and Jeffrey L. Rabin | October 14, 2007
Interstate 5 between Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley has been shut down repeatedly over the years by snow, ice, brush fires and serious accidents. Read more
 

Friday, August 3, 2007

Far from the city, a haven for homeless - A long-term shelter for families opens in rural Littlerock, filling a need in the Antelope Valley, where poverty and despair have crept in.

California | Local | By Ann M. Simmons | August 3, 2007
Charlotte Hall said the pain from cervical cancer forced her to give up her job three years ago. Read more
 

Friday, July 20, 2007

High-voltage plan sparks ire - Angeles National Forest property owners add their opposition to a project for transmitting power generated by wind turbines.

California | Local | By Alison Williams | July 20, 2007
A group of cabin owners in the northern reaches of the Angeles National Forest has added its voice to a rising chorus of opposition to the development of renewable energy – in this case, a high-voltage line that would transmit electrical power generated by wind turbines. Read more
 

Thursday, July 12, 2007

County offers ‘inland port’ plan - A hub in the Antelope Valley to handle overseas cargo, served by rail lines, is pushed as a way to reduce truck traffic on area freeways.

California | Local | By Rong-Gong Lin II | July 12, 2007
L.A. County officials on Wednesday unveiled plans for an “inland port” in the Antelope Valley – a would-be hub more than 70 miles north of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach that is aimed at reducing heavy truck congestion throughout the region’s freeways. Read more
 

Saturday, June 23, 2007

System upgrade could disrupt water service

California | Local | June 23, 2007
Some residents could experience a disruption in water service this weekend as workers upgrade the delivery system, officials said Friday. Read more
 

Sunday, June 17, 2007

A not-so-welcome mat

California | Local | By Ted Rohrlich and Jessica Garrison | June 17, 2007
THE anonymous tip came in over a special hotline: Someone was smoking marijuana on the balcony of Rachel Baker’s government-subsidized apartment. Read more
 

Thursday, June 7, 2007

A cure for road rage: close road

California | Local | By Tony Barboza and Hector Becerra | June 7, 2007
It started last year when Caltrans began widening California 138, a main east-west route in Southern California’s fast-growing high desert region. Read more
 

Friday, May 25, 2007

Board seeks larger fine for contamination

California | Local | By J. Michael Kennedy | May 25, 2007
In the realm of big fines for doing bad things to the land, this was supposed to have been a $4-million whopper. Read more
 

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

’90s housing slump haunts high desert

Business | By Kim Christensen | April 10, 2007
John Rockey has been hanging drywall for 35 years, and he’s seen it all in the boom-again, bust-again Antelope Valley housing market. Read more
 

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Hungry for upscale retail

California | Local | By Ashley Powers and Amanda Covarrubias | February 20, 2007
Most weeknights after 5 p.m., a line of patrons snakes around the Olive Garden restaurant in Palmdale, where hungry diners face an hourlong wait. Read more
 

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Where Dream Is Still Possible

California | Local | By Amanda Covarrubias | August 31, 2006
In John Barros’ four-bedroom house in Lancaster, a special room is set aside for God. Read more
 
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