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Antelope Valley
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Antelope Valley fire slayings are not connected, authorities say
California | Local |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
October 14, 2007
Big-rig drivers say they dread the tunnel. Read more
Crash severs a vital state artery
California | Local |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
August 31, 2006
In John Barros’ four-bedroom house in Lancaster, a special room is
set aside for God. Read more
