Just weeks after announcing the addition of more flights from Burbank Airport, discount airline Skybus is closing down today and plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The shutdown was revealed late yesterday; all flights were completed Friday, but the airline had flights scheduled through to September 2, reports the Daily News. Skybus was an airline with a lofty mission to provide lower-cost air travel between second- and third-tier destinations in the continental United States.......

Burbank residents who live in the vicinity of Bob Hope Airport may soon see relief in the nighttime hours from cargo plane flight activity if a proposed mandatory curfew is endorsed by the public and approved by the FAA. This month, airport officials will consider the curfew that will prohibit air traffic between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. In turn, the airport could potentially save millions in operation costs. In 2002, the second phase of......

Since the beginning of 2007, there have been nine "close calls" on LAX's runways with the latest on Wednesday evening at 8:43 p.m. An American Airlines jet arriving from Baja California just landed on the outer runway and needed to cross the inner runway where a Mexicana Airlines jet was preparing for take off.The air traffic controller told the American Airlines pilot to stop before crossing the inner runway, Gregor told the newspaper, but......

Hearing that Burbank's Bob Hope Airport might be grounding flights this morning, I headed over there at 5:30am. They were still allowing in the usual traffic, in spite of the fact that everyone was swerving all over the road in the dense fog. I almost got T-boned by a Flyaway shuttle. I spoke to a few passengers who were heading back to the parking structure after being told their flight to San Francisco was......

There was an eerie, yet zen-like, feeling when I stepped outside tonight. Pretty much, just a wonderful feeling. NEWS ALERT: The fog is so thick, Burbank Airport has been shut down. a few more photos after the jump.........

"We live in the Valley ourselves,” Panorama City based ADJ Finishing president Alexander Orantes said today after being cleared 16 counts of illegally dumping pollutants into city sewers. Apparently, it's not the first time for USC student Holly Ashcraft to dump her baby in a trash bin. A man in his 30's was shot outside Belmont High this afternoon. He stood his ground and fought for his strip club in La Habra. Then the......

From Sherman Oaks to Burbank Airport it was just a little over 45 minutes by bus. A few bucks later and some good podcast listening on the ride (The California Report, This American Life), we were on our travels yesterday in a flash. No bothering friends for a ride, no use of cars and no Supershuttle, a.k.a., we will pick you up 3 hours before your flight and have to go pick up 6......

- Snoop Dogg Popped for Guns N' Weed at Burbank Airport - AP - Clippers Don't Suck - the Merc - Barry Bonds might become an Angel - AP - LA Archdiocese will pay most of the $10 million sex settlement in Encino - Newsday - Reward for Palm Springs arsonist tripled to $300,000 - AP - 11 charged with OC voter fraud - LAT - A billion gallons of gas could have been......

Co-founder of In-N-Out Burger, Esther Snyder, has passed. We salute you with 4x4s and Grilled Cheeses. Steve Lopez visits Hillary Hauser, former Santa Barbara News-Press reporter and Ocean Environmentalist/Activist. Lopez's column comes after last week's five part series - Altered Oceans. The Warner Center in Woodland Hills might become more of mini-downtown for the Valley. Former music industry producer, Mark Steele, wants to build a $100 million dollar event center to produce events from......

Can't afford that $2.2 million house you wanted in Laguna Niguel? You can get the same exact model for a half million in AV (that's Antelope Valley). Hello Poppy Festival and street names with no creativity! We love Bob Hope Burbank Airport (BUR)!!! The short lines, the ease of picking up and dropping off friends and walking on the tarmac. But the airport is getting more popular and now they are considering the Van......

Dear LAist, I work over by the Fry's in Burbank. I noticed black smoke over at the Burbank Airport. I don't really know who else to tell. Just sayin' - Concerned [Update: the smoke is almost gone now, thanks anyway]......

No two words can better describe a decadent weekend for the Angeleno than Las Vegas. This LAist poster joined the masses at the Bob Hope (a/k/a Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena) Airport on Friday afternoon for a Southwest Airlines 3 PM cattle call to the city of Lost Wages. And we didn’t mind a bit. OK, maybe a little -- but we still love us the Bob Hope… Here’s the timeline from Friday that some can probably relate......

LAist loves LA, but also loves to leave the city every now and then. But we hate LAX. Perhaps we'd hate it less if we lived closer (well, not Westchester closer) or could find more kind souls willing to schlepp us there at ungodly hours. This is why LAist loves the Burbank--ahem, the Bob Hope--Airport, and tries to wing off from their small-town-like tarmac whenever possible. Today's LA Times article announcing that low-price carrier JetBlue......