Authorities are searching for three men involved in the Monday night shooting death of a 24-year-old man in Sun Valley. A Good Samaritan, the victim died in an attempt to rescue his grandfather during a mugging. more ›

Police are searching for three robbers who mugged a 60-year-old man and fatally shot his grandson in Sun Valley Monday night. After hearing yells for help around 6:45pm, Danilo Estuardo Morales, 24, rushed from his home in the 8100 block of Coldwater Canyon Avenue in an attempt to rescue his grandfather during a mugging in the home's driveway. more ›

Arid climate and strong winds have made SoCal a hotbed for brush fires this week. Los Angeles area firefighters did not relax on Labor Day. Instead, they responded to a fast moving wildfire in Sun Valley on Monday. The cause? Children illegally playing with fireworks. more ›

A toddler found wandering the streets last night in his diaper and a t-shirt has been returned home safely, reports NBC LA. The child was found at around 4:00 a.m. by resident Luis Estrada, who was driving his minivan through Sun Valley when he saw what he thought was a doll. more ›

A small, twin-engine Piper Comanche plane crashed into the roof of a home in Big Bear on Sunday injuring two people. According to an FAA spokesman, the accident happened around 7:20 a.m. on Mountain View Boulevard shortly after takeoff from Big Bear Airport, says KTLA. The pilot was reportedly able "to extract himself" from the aircraft and was taken to an local hospital with unknown injuries. A person inside the house was also hurt. The incident is now under investigation by the NTSB and FAA and authorities have not yet released the names of the involved parties. The plane, according to FAA records, is reportedly registered to Tower General Contractors in Sun Valley. more ›

These may well be the dog days of summer, but local pooches can take a "paws" and relax and unwind at a water park just for man's best friend. After all, it's not easy being a dog, and everyone needs a little pampering, right? more ›

L.A. City Councilmember Richard Alarcon, who has been accused of not living in the area for which he was elected as representative, has been indicted by an L.A. County grand jury on 18 felony charges, according to the Press-Telegram. more ›

Javier Rueda was supposed to serve 10 years for a number of crimes, but after two years he was released in January. Crimes he was jailed for included possession of a controlled substance while armed with a gun, possession of a silencer, vehicle theft and evading a police officer. When released as a parolee, he was deemed "low-level, nonviolent" and given the status as a non-revocable parole, meaning he wouldn't have to report to a parolee officer. more ›

LAPD traffic detectives are seeking the public’s help with additional information that could help explain the cause of yesterday's traffic collision which involved two cars and a Mertolink train. As the LAPD tells it, here's what happened: more ›

How a car ended up being hit by a Metrolink train this morning has been figured out--it was a chain-reaction crash. A vehicle pulling to the side of the road for an ambulance was hit from behind by a pickup truck, which flipped over before coming to a rest on the train tracks where it was hit, according to the Associated Press. more ›

[UPDATE: Photos and more info how the crash can be found here] more ›

If you saw that car chase going up the 405 this morning, here's what happened, according to the California Highway Patrol. Officers attempted to pull over a man driving northbound on the 405 freeway in the Carson area around 8:45 a.m. But the man fled, going up to speeds of 90 miles per hour (he was going opposite of rush hour traffic at times). He made his way to the San Fernando Valley, hooked a right onto the 118 Freeway before heading back south on the 5 Freeway, exiting at Roscoe Boulevard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sun Valley. The chase ended around 9:40 a.m. in the driveway of a house on a side street in neighboring Arleta when police surrounded and arrested him. His name has not been released yet, nor the reason why officers initially wanted to pull him over. more ›

Shortly before 10:30 a.m., a city utility truck from the Bureau of Sanitation crashed into a Sun Valley home injuring the female driver. The truck, which was pulling a piece of equipment behind it, careened into a car on the street, then struck a tree before crashing into the living room of the house at 12308 Sheldon Street near the 5 and 170 freeway interchange, according to Devin Gales of the Los Angeles Fire Department. An elderly couple was inside the home, but not injured. The driver was treated on scene for non-life threatening injuries. more ›

Today's edition of Steve Hymon's weekly Road Sage column explores one Altadena man's story of de-caring for five years, but unwillingly giving back into car culture after Metro changed some lines, ultimately forcing his four hour daily roundtrip to be a little longer and more unpredictable. more ›

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As the dark settled over Los Angeles last night, we awoke to an unfortunate number of deaths. Any number is sad -- especially four. more ›

As winds died down Sunday, firefighters gained the upper hand on the Malibu blaze that burned at least 49 homes and sent thousands fleeing. It is now 70% contained and officials expect full containment by Tuesday. The damage could run close to $100 million. Firefighters rescued a father and his 4-year-old son in a Sun Valley home that burned down this morning. The father got his wife and daughter out of the house, but,... more ›

Can we please do the OPPOSITE of adding fuel to these fires? A Sun Valley day laborer has been charged with arson after he was caught attempting to start a blaze in the Woodland Hills area earlier this week. Do you use your cell phone? Of course you do. The future of this important device lies in the hands of visionaries, such as the ones who are attending MobileCampLA on Sunday. And you too... more ›

Nearly 500 Teamsters tired of not being able to work for the weekend - because they have to work on some weekends - went on strike early this morning affecting Long Beach, Compton, and Sun Valley. About a quarter million people will be touched by the strike that is based around two major issues, long hours and respect. [Waste Management] said the [Teamsters] contract expired in September and that its latest offer included a... more ›

Photo found in the "suburban" section of the Warner Bros back lot by Eye Captain via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr more ›

2,000 DWP customers lost power today in Sun Valley. At noon, power was threatened to be cut from large energy consumers. But as the afternoon progressed, the Stage 2 was unlikely to happen. Yes, this is a heat wave. At age 18, having a DUI conviction, being a tagger and dealing in drugs is bound to get you caught up in murder charges in Van Nuys. A brush fire broke out in Castaic today... more ›

The 96 year-old town of Van Nuys is awash in history and witness to a vibrant international culture exemplified by its many ethnic eateries, shops and government offices. Considered by many to be the nerve center of the San Fernando Valley, Van Nuys, or, The Nuys, is bordered by Sun Valley to its north, Valley Glen to the east, Sherman Oaks to the south, and Lake Balboa to the west. more ›

We live in a beautiful part of the world, don't you think? Despite the fact that sometimes it feels like all we ever see are the taillights and inane vanity plates of the car we're stuck behind, if we take some time to check out all the flora and fauna that our soil produces, we might get that nice swift kick in the rear from Mother Nature we didn't even know we needed. On... more ›

With the start of a new year, it only makes sense for us to reflect on the events of the past year. Last year marked the deaths of two legendary hip hop figures, J Dilla and DJ Dusk, and the proclamation that hip hop, too, is dead. In 2007 we need to ask ourselves, is Nas just starting a controversy, or is hip hop really dead? Well, I can’t answer that for you. I can, however, list four of my hip hop heroes for January 2007. Not that these are actual heroes, but just a few people that will surely make me smile throughout the coming month: more ›

It would have been difficult to call the winner on this one: Sun Valley’s Ski Mountain defended its black diamond title this past Saturday against Governer Re-Elect Arnold Schwarzenegger in what many are calling a surprising defeat. The Governor came in strong early in the first round, seamlessly gliding through the many obstacles that Sun Valley Mountain set in his path. Schwarzenegger’s speed and power were more than enough to get him through the... more ›

December 17th seems to be a big day for the MTA (maybe everyone gets to go on vacation on the 18th?), but whatevs, LAist is never one to pooh-pooh progress, particularly regarding public transportation in this fair city. The MTA announced today that the Valley will get a new Rapid line on Reseda Blvd. between Northridge and Tarzana - welcome Line 741! The 364 won't be a Rapid per-se but will be a "limited... more ›

Maybe you've seen them. They might be congregated like an ominous gang in the shadows of the parking lot at the Jons. Maybe a lone one watches you get off the bus while leaning up against a palm tree. Or perhaps you'll see and old one wading in the LA River, frozen, like if it doesn't move you won't notice it. Shopping carts are loved by small children and the homeless alike, but Van... more ›

If you think you can just throw it in the trash, you're wrong. That would be really bad for the environment and bad for your check book. Occasionally, there are e-waste events around the city, but lucky for us, the City of LA has six S.A.F.E. Centers (Solvents, Automotive, Flammables, Electronics) that are open to the public a few days a week as a free service. Today, we headed to the Sun Valley S.A.F.E.... more ›

There's a lumpy, farting, gum-chewing thing in the art world called outsider art. Outsider art can be many things - art by the disabled or merely unschooled, art in the eye of the beholder, or just art out of fashion. Here in ultra-sophisticated, un-bumpkinish Los Angeles, it seems that outsider art might be something of an endangered species. Thankfully, that just ain't so. You see, once upon a time there was a man named... more ›

Last night, while stranded at the Sun Valley train station because a Metrolink train stuck and killed a woman, LAist, like the hundreds of other trapped commuters, had the opportunity to watch the traffic on the 5 freeway go by ever_so_slowly. more ›