The storefronts of four Sherman Oaks and Van Nuys businesses were covered in shattered glass on Monday night after vandals targeted Ventura Boulevard and Sherman Way. Police received the first call at 9:05pm and discovered vandalism at The Lover Thai-Chinese Restaurant, Leeds Mattress Store, Rodeo Realty and Mirage Fine Home Furnishings. more ›

An elderly woman was struck and killed late this morning by a freight train rumbling through the San Fernando Valley. The victim, whose identity has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene on the 13200 block of Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys at 11:30 a.m., reports CBS2. more ›

Same city, same cause but the effort to get a second 24/7 Occupy Wall Street movement off the ground in Los Angeles City limits was shut down by police last night, according to Sherman Oaks Patch. more ›

Likeohmigod, okay! The Valley is about to be "Occupied." Protesters on the other side of the hill are sick of corporate greed and are going to camp out to show their frustration with the 1% who they say controls our nation's finances. Occupy San Fernando Valley is destined for the Van Nuys Civic Center on Saturday. more ›

This Bud's for you, Van Nuys: We might be increasingly interested in craft beer in Los Angeles, but we're also home to a major brewery that's been bottling beer since the 1950s. Now that facility, the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Van Nuys, is about to get a $30 million upgrade as part of an over $1 billion investment plan the company is making towards their American operations. more ›

Three children were placed in the hands of L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services this morning after the youngsters experienced a traumatic car crash involving two drunk drivers. The accident occurred on Van Nuys Boulevard just north of Valerio Street around 12:30am on Monday. more ›

DNA evidence has prompted the arrest of a 33-year-old Van Nuys man after he was linked to a 2002 rape, according to the Burbank Leader. Armen Shakhbazyan was arrested Thursday evening for his allegedly role in the rape of an unconscious 16-year-old girl at a South Glendale motel. more ›

Police on patrol crashed a cruiser in Van Nuys early Saturday morning, according to the Daily News. The LAPD officer behind the wheel and his partner were being "checked out" following the crash but were not believed to be seriously injured. more ›

Not long ago, Conan O'Brien announced that he wanted a street in LA named after him. His plea came about after his long-time nemesis, Oprah Winfrey, had her name permanently lent to a road in Chicago. As part of his request, O'Brien even identified his street of choice: West Raymer Street in Van Nuys. more ›

Conan O'Brien gets what he wants. But he doesn't have a street named after him. Not yet at least. Thursday night he showed up with a sign and a call for justice. After all, Oprah has a street in Chicago named after her. "I've been in Los Angeles for 22 months," Conan said. "Isn't it time I got a street named after me?" more ›

An off-duty Los Angeles police officer died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center on Saturday morning following a solo crash on the eastbound Ventura 101 freeway. According to police, the officer was thrown from his pickup truck, still belted into the driver's seat, after striking a guard rail at the Van Nuys Boulevard exit at 3:21 a.m., reports the Daily News. more ›

Van Nuys police are asking for help identifying one or more vandals responsible for a rash of tire slashing around the city. Reports KTLA, "Between March 19 and March 22, one or more suspects have targeted at least 15 vehicles primarily in the Sherman Oaks area, LAPD said in a statement." more ›

Taggers who leave their marks on public property will soon find their handiwork showing up in a new kind of gallery. City officials and the Los Angeles Police Department are launching a four-division pilot program that will centralize visual evidence of tags to create a database that will be used to gather evidence for prosecution and restitution. more ›

Cyrus Aaron Parvizi, a sixteen-year-old from Van Nuys, disappeared on January 29 after attending a wrestling event near LAX. The teenager, who has been missing now for over two weeks, was last seen in front of the Hilton Los Angeles Airport in the 5700 block of West Century Boulevard. more ›

A toddler lost his finger yesterday in a harrowing escalator accident at the Van Nuys Courthouse. The Los Angeles Fire Department break down the grisly incident, in which a 17-month-old boy had his left index finger lopped off "in the comb-and-groove of the foot tread at or near the lowest ('arrival') level of the machinery." more ›

A Van Nuys neighborhood woke to an early morning disaster when a 20-inch water main burst around 3:00 a.m. rushing knee-deep water into homes and businesses and leaving nearly 60 people displaced according to authorities, reports the LA TImes. more ›

If you're headed in or out of Van Nuys tonight by car, let the driver beware: The Los Angeles Police Department have announced a sobriety checkpoint to be conducted tonight. The checkpoint will run from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Roscoe Boulevard between Woodley Avenue and Haskell Avenue. more ›

The LAPD is once again sending a message to drivers across the city to not drink and drive. There will be at least one DUI checkpoint tonight, located in the San Fernando Valley on the border of North Hills and Van Nuys along Roscoe Blvd. between Woodley and Haskell. The LAPD does not have to announce all checkpoints, so there could be more out there. more ›

Does this mean the budget is fixed? For a few years, the Los Angeles City Council met in the San Fernando Valley monthly to add great accessibility -- after all, the Valley is nearly half the physical size of the city -- but then the idea was shelved due to budget cuts earlier this year. more ›

All of the Department of Motor Vehicle's field offices will be closing down for one day apiece during August or September in order for them to receive technical upgrades, reminds abc7. This is in addition to the "furlough Friday" closures that will find all the DMV offices shut down on Friday August 27th, as part of the state's cost-cutting measures. more ›

The LAPD will be conducting at least three sobriety and license checkpoints tonight as part of their ongoing endeavor to get impaired drivers off the road and to educate the public about the perils of drunk driving. more ›

In downtown Van Nuys there's a parking problem. Luckily, there could be a fix and it doesn't mean building a parking structure. A L.A. city council transportation panel today met and briefly discussed two proposals that could help solve parking around the Van Nuys civic center. Although there metered spaces line the surrounding streets -- often crowded -- two city parking lots do not operate at maximum capacity. One has an average occupancy of 76% while another has a 28% occupancy. more ›

This is for the procrastinators. According to the United States Post Office, a select handful of locations will be "extending service" tonight to "accommodate last-minute filers who want the safety and security of sending personal information contained on tax returns through the U.S. Mail. In Los Angeles and Orange Counties." There's not that many, but here's the list is below. more ›

Think you can grow fruits, veggies, and flowers in your yard and sell the surplus to your friends, neighbors, and strangers? Think again. more ›

U.S. Transportation officials shut down a Van Nuys-based bus charter company that operated a bus that crashed early Friday morning, leaving 6 dead and 7 critically injured. The bus was headed to Los Angeles from Mexico when it crashed outside of Phoenix. Tierra Santa, Inc. was not government regulated and had a poor safety history, according to the LA Times. "It is absolutely essential that unsafe carriers like this one be taken off the road," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said. more ›

To give more access to the city's widespread public, the L.A. City Council began holding meetings in the Valley on the first Friday of the month. But now, with the city's dire budget situation, those meetings are canceled until at least the new fiscal year, Councilman Dennis Zine announced this morning during today's meeting in Van Nuys. more ›

As the process to fix Los Angeles' budget woes continues, today a City Council budget and finance committee will examine the recent mid-year and three-year fiscal reports and recommendations--you know, laying off 1,000 employees, etc--in addition to a major 400-page report on possible budget savings via public-private partnerships on city-owned parking structures. more ›