Antelope Valley High School was shut down while sheriff's deputies looked for a fake gun that a student flashed in class. The deputies found the sophomore boy at home and questioned him about the incident. more ›

Anyone who watches "South Park" knows that it's almost impossible to thwart Walmart, but the small town of Quartz Hill has persevered and done just that. The town, located in Antelope Valley, has been fighting the corporate behemoth for six years over their plans to put a store across the street from the town's high school, reports KTLA. more ›

UCCE Master Food Preserver Sarah Spitz writes about serving as a judge in a 4H baking competition: "It’s a win-win for everyone involved, judges included—minus the sugar rush we experienced, which fortunately, dissipated in a few hours!" more ›

Today marks another pleasantly warm day in sunny SoCal, but come Tuesday, temperatures will drop, winds will blow and snow will fall. Shivering Southlanders can thank a cold low-pressure system out of the Gulf of Alaska for the change in weather. more ›

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors showed their appreciation of those involved in the successful recent conviction of an Antelope Valley couple who bred pit bulls and trained them to fight in their weekly meeting, and the moment is serving as a reminder of how valuable the dog fighting tip line is. more ›

The city council of Lancaster just approved a program that will allow a Cessna to weave through the airspace of Antelope Valley for 10 hours a day while a camera rolls. The film will be sent to the sheriff's station on the ground and reviewed in real-time for people doing hilarious shit in the privacy of their own backyards crime, according to The Los Angeles Daily News. more ›

A drunk woman driving six children in her SUV got into a rollover crash early this morning in Lancaster, which landed two children in the hospital with major injuries. The woman identified as Stanesha Nicole Allen, 31, of Lake Los Angeles has been charged with a DUI, according to the Los Angeles Times. It's not clear yet what Allen's relationship to all the kids is. more ›

Last night, a couple from Valencia was struck by a van on an evening ride through Lancaster organized by a local bike shop. The couple came into harm's way, according to the Los Angeles Times, while they were on a bike ride with about 20 other people. more ›

The Antelope Valley Fair wants its fairgoers to "Peel the Love"...but not like that! The community's onion-themed fair opened yesterday, but right away some fairgoers noticed something was awry. The management decided to put up some colorful flags around the fair and had opted for rainbow flags. more ›

This weekend, Kevin Smith comes to the New Beverly for his latest, Red State. Meanwhile, Laemmle Theatres comes to Lancaster. Will the Antelope Valley embrace the arthouse? more ›

The "ornate maze" of buildings in Acton was ordered to come down by a judge, and for violating a dozen or so building codes, the development's eccentric visionary, Alan Kimble Fahey, may be required to perform community service. more ›

A freight train derailed earlier this afternoon in the Antelope Valley, causing officials to evacuate residents as they try to figure out whether hazardous material that the train was carrying leaked into the atmosphere, reports L.A. Now. more ›

How quickly those blue skies can turn gray... The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Warning for Northeastern Los Angeles County, including the eastern Antelope Valley and adjacent foothills. The warning is in effect until 7:15 p.m. tonight. more ›

A former NFL player for the Raiders has been charged, along with two others, for the 2008 murder of a Lancaster man. Anthony Wayne Smith, 43, played as defensive end for the Raiders between 1991 and 1998. At the time of the crime, Smith lived in Marina del Rey. Smith, along with Charles Eric Honest, 41, of Los Angeles, and Dewann Wesley White, 32, of Bloomington, were charged last month with murdering 31-year-old Maurilio Ponce on Oct. 7, 2008. more ›

A dog-fighting training center, complete with surgical equipment, treadmills, a portable fighting ring with dried blood on the posts and more than a dozen pit bulls was shut down by L.A. County sheriffs deputies in the Antelope Valley Wednesday. L.A. Sheriff's deputies coordinated the raid over the past month, based on an anonymous tip left on the county's 24-hour Dog Fighting Hotline. more ›

Restaurants in the Antelope Valley and Glendale have become the target of a fake health inspector, reports KTLA, and police are warning restaurant employees to be mindful of the scam -- although they're not exactly sure how the scam works. Authorities say the man appears at restaurants, claims to be a health inspector from either the California Department of Public Health or the Orange County Department of Public Health, and "asks restaurant owner to call a phone number and enter a numeric code, according to police. more ›

Talk about a surprise: A woman returned to her car after shopping in a Lancaster grocery store to find a 9-foot snake slithering beneath the vehicle, according to ABC7. more ›

UPDATE 12:05 PM: KTLA is reporting that the family has been located, alive: "Missing members of a break-off religious group, who were reported missing by their families Saturday, have been found alive and well at a park in Palmdale. The 5 adults and 8 children were spotted late Sunday morning at Jackie Robinson Park in Palmdale.." more ›

In its 3 p.m. broadcast today, KCAL 9 showed footage of pouring rain and flash flooding in Lake Elsinore. Meteorologist Henry DiCarlo said the storm cell was producing two to four inches per hour. That's quite a difference from the clear blue skies and extreme heat we're feeling here in the immediate Los Angeles area. more ›

Even with our summer of cool temperatures there have still been a number of brush fires sparking up all over Southern California. Today, however, with the arrival of a surge in hot weather, officials are reminding us of the imminent threat of fire, according to LA Now. more ›

Sheriff's Deputies quickly found and arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of an 11-year-old girl this morning. At 7:40 a.m., deputies were called to a home in Littlerock, an unincorporated town in Antelope Valley. Outside was a wounded 14-year-old girl who was sent to the hospital in critical condition. The 11-year-old was found dead inside. A suspect who may be related to the two girls has been arrested. A motive is still being investigated. more ›

Of the three fires ignited in northern Los Angeles County on Thursday afternoon, one remains a threat as it continues to grow. The Crown Fire has scorched some 8,000 acres between Acton and the Palmdale/Lancaster area. The fire was first reported at 2:22 p.m. and may have started in a vacant lot where "workers were apparently using a hammer to extract nails from tire rims," according to the LA Times. more ›

Checking out wildflowers is a game of patience and flexibility. That's because you can't plan for them every year (like when there is a drought) and you can't predict when each species' bloom will peak (Anacapa Island's giant coreopsis already came and went). For those seeking to see the states state flower, the California Poppy, now is the time as the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve and surrounding areas are at their best right now. And true to every year, it won't last for long. more ›

Tuesday is election day in various parts of Los Angeles County, but one measure up in the Antelope Valley is making headlines. The city of Lancaster's Measure I asks if invocation from different faiths should continue to be delivered before City Council meetings. The issue was brought up by the ACLU, which threatened to sue, last year. In response, the council put a measure on the ballot to see whether or not the community supports it. "If the vast majority of the community is in favor of this, I think the court should know that," said Mayor R. Rex Parris to the LA Times. more ›

So you go the gas pump, insert your card and fill the tank. What you may not know is that a thief installed a card skimmer on the pump so they could steal your info and re-crete the card for their own purchase. Three prolific identify theft suspects were arrested of just that today by a large task force led by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department with the FBI, LAPD, Glendale Police, ICE, USPS and U.S. Attorneys Office. more ›

Running desperately low on the rare blood type, health officials in Antelope Valley put out an urgent call for O-negative blood donors yesterday. "The blood bank is experiencing a significant increase in the number of patients requiring this rare blood type," the AV Hospital Blood Donor Center stated in an e-mail appeal. "Due to an ongoing regional shortage of type O-negative blood we have been unable to obtain additional replacement units from outside suppliers." more ›

Evacuation centers have been opened in two more schools to shelter residents who are being asked to leave their homes in the Antelope Valley due to the Station Fire. In addition to the first evacuation center opened in the region at Highland High School in Palmdale, shelters are now accepting evacuees at Golden Valley High School in Santa Clarita and Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga. The Glendale Unified School District announced early this morning they were canceling all classes on what would have been the first day of the school year; the GUSD is housing one evacuation center at Crescenta Valley High in La Crescenta. The La Cañada Unified School District, which is housing an evacuation center at La Cañada High, is expected to announce later today if they, too, will close tomorrow and postpone their first day of school. more ›