We'll give you a clue: there's a better of chance of the Rose Parade getting snowed out next year than the city halting this event—even though it left behind more than three times as much trash as the other. more ›

Thanks to Christmas Day falling on a Sunday this year, today is a legal holiday, and that means things are quiet in Los Angeles, with many offices and services closed or limited. more ›

Labor Day campers at the Angeles National Forest failed to leave only footprints over the holiday weekend. The aftermath of their lazy disregard for the environment may infect L.A. drinking water. more ›

A magnificent yet tedious street art project just wrapped this afternoon in Venice, and passers-by are approvingly snapping photos of the brilliant display. Barefoot Wine, the Surfrider Foundation and four local artists combined forces to create a 14x10-foot "One Beach" film poster mural on the side of Mollusk Surf Shop. more ›

Coyotes and bears, oh my! Southern California wildlife are hungry and braving inhabited zones for nourishment. Seven coyotes were recently trapped and killed following fatal attacks on dogs and have been deemed more deadly than usual this summer. A recent bear sighting in Northern Glendale has prompted a warning to neighbors. more ›

LAPD Detectives are investigating the discovery of a woman’s body found by workers at a trash sorting facility in the 900 block of East E Street in Wilmington on May 20 at around 6:15p.m., according to a police department press release. more ›

The California Coastal Commission's annual Cleanup Day is considered the world's largest trash-collecting event, and today tens of thousands of volunteers of all ages and walks of life spent the morning on the shore of the Pacific pitching in to get rid of all the junk left behind. more ›

Trash cans need power? Well, Long Beach, which wants to be the greenest city in the country, has an idea, and if successful, they might be onto something. The first of three solar trash cans appeared in downtown Long Beach, officials announced Wednesday. more ›

Beginning today, Bureau of Sanitation will be traveling through neighborhoods damaged by the fire to pick up large and fire damaged bulky items from the front curb of people's homes. The city asks if homeowners need special assistance or have any questions please call 3-1-1 and ask for the Bureau of Sanitation. more ›

Mahalo Daily has been locally focused the past couple of days. Yesterday, they spoke to people at the Santa Monica promenade about the effect of gas prices on their lives. Today, they tag along with the city's Bureau of Sanitation in South LA for a day of bulky item pickups. Good times. more ›

After a month of study and protest, City Council put some closure on the budget for fiscal year 2008-2009. With a $406 million deficit, the biggest the city has ever seen, tough choices were made, but some of what was threatened was saved -- line items such as library hours, film festivals, the city's television Channel 36, homeless shelter beds and calligraphers to decorate city proclamations, according to the Daily News. more ›

Why is the Red Line running a little slow Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights? Probably because these orange-vested types are cleaning out the pipes under the tracks. Metro's repair guys and gals send a little camera snaking down the pipes to look for gunk – I'm not sure if "gunk" is the technical term for it, actually – and they follow it with what looks to me like a giant vacuum cleaner. more ›

Many of us have recently taken heed to the call to be more "green" in our lives, from easy day-to-day things such as employing reusable bags, to larger-scale endeavors, like switching to hybrid cars or going car-less entirely. And now that we've turned our calendar pages to January 2008, many of us are pledging (aka the dreaded "resolutions") to make the year a greener one. more ›

Heal the Bay gives out free canvas bags for "A Day Without A Disposable Bag Day" more ›

You remember this famous exchange from The Graduate? Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you - just one word. Ben: Yes sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Ben: Yes I am. Mr. McGuire: 'Plastics.' Ben: Exactly how do you mean? Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? Ben: Yes I will. Yes, there was certainly a future in plastics -- but it... more ›

Your neighborhood is very nice, but this one secluded walkway looks to be from a part of a city that is not yours. City officials say the solution is to close the path off. You disagree because that's not an acceptable solution. What do you do? more ›

Once while driving down the freeway from Santa Clarita into the LA over the Newhall Pass, I came upon a boat. No, not some truck pulling a boat. But a speed boat sitting in lane one (that's the furthest left lane). It obviously became detached from a vehicle. But where were they? There was no one pulled over looking distraught. DID THEY NOT NOTICE?!!? So I called 911 because that is what you are... more ›

When it rained this weekend 150 tons of trash from LA's sewers flushed beneath us and ended up in the ocean. This is why we can't have nice things. "The volume of trash collected at the L.A. River boom is a powerful reminder that everything in the street - trash, cigarette butts, pet waste, even oil that leaks from cars - washes into the ocean after each heavy rainfall," said Emma Ayala, Head, Public... more ›

Having a bedroom window facing the LA River is actually quite nice. I never see the concrete bottom: the part of the river abut my home flows 365 days of the year, even if at a half foot. I hear all sorts of strange birds 24 hours a day, always hear the slight rippling of the river and have an otherwise peaceful aural background. However, when it rains, the river changes from calm and... more ›

If you live in an older building or one with subterranean parking, you might see this weekly. A small and zippy tow trucks flies into your parking lot, quickly snaps up the garbage bin and races back to the mama garbage truck that can't fit into your apartment complex. How many keys and gate clickers must the tow truck operator keep organized? Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds....... more ›

Spotted this sign near Olympic and Robertson. That's Beverly Hills Adjacent to peeps in the know and those who love real estate euphemisms. The street dumping of old furniture being a problem endemic to greater Los Angeles, we offer this information in the interest of neighborhood beautification. more ›