Zach Behrens

We're still looking at a slight chance of showers until midnight. After that, expect partly cloudy skies and some wind throughout the weekend. Day time highs will range from the 60s to low 70s along the coasts and into the valleys, according to the National Weather Service. And because Palm Springs will be crazy with The White Party all weekend long, here's what's going on there: slight chances of rain mixed in with thunderstorms...

So far, so good? Or maybe not? New Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Ramon Cortines has entered into his job at a tough time while facing a $718 million budget deficit--that's a bigger red number than the city of Los Angeles. Cortines was once the interim superintendent back in 2000 and he drafted up plans he is only getting to implement this time around: "Its central office would be lean; decisions would be...

Not taken in LA, but kinda looks like it, no? Random Fact: By law, you can only have one rooster per househould. | Photo by sbblackley via Flickr For nearly a year, livable streets activists have been at arms over the actions of Los Angeles officials raising speed limits in the Valley. The city is required by state law to evaluate street speeds and adjust the limits if they want police to be able...

What once use to be a skyline of cranes, a sure sign of a neighborhood coming back, has now dwindled down to the last one. The construction crane at Concerto, a new condo development at 9th and Figueroa, was taken down yesterday leaving LA Live's long-necked machine as it completes glass work on the Ritz-Carlton tower. For blogdowntown's Eric Richardson, there's nothing wrong with this picture: "Of course, that's not exactly a bad thing....

Photo: TheTruthAbout...via Flickr By law, if police want to use radar guns on streets, cities must measure the average speed cars are going, regardless of posted limits, every 7 to 10 years. If they find that 15% of vehicles are illegally going over the speed limit, the city must increase the limit to allow for radar use. That's what's been happening for nearly a year in the Valley, angering residents and activists who have...

In the past 24 hours, thirteen mircroquakes and one minor quake have struck the Salton Sea area where over 400 little quakes have shook the ground in the last month. That minor one, a 3.5 magnitude shaker, happened yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m. Athough, the number of quakes have calmed, "Seismologist Kate Hutton of the California Institute of Technology said it will take a fair amount of quiet time before scientists can declare the...

Photo by timtom.ch via Flickr "There must be a believer out there, one with both the foresight and resources to keep our city from becoming a wasteland of corporate chain stores, uninspired conformity and heartless mediocrity, and we think saving Equator Books would be a very good place to start," wrote Max Wheeler, part-owner of Equator, on the Huffington Post yesterday. The 5-year-old Abbot Kinney Boulevard bookstore is "actively (aggressively / desperately) seeking Investors,"...

The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power is working to restore power that was knocked out shortly before lunch in Sherman Oaks today. It was caused by a by a falling tree limb and 2,600 customers are affected. "Crews are on site working to repair it as quickly as possible," Spokeswoman Stephanie Interaino said over the phone. However, she had no estimate when power would be back. Crews had repaired the initial damage...

Photo: TheTruthAbout...via Flickr By law, if police want to use radar guns on streets, cities must measure the average speed cars are going, regardless of posted limits, every 7 to 10 years. If they find that 15% of vehicles are illegally going over the speed limit, the city must increase the limit to allow for radar use. That's what's been happening for nearly a year in the Valley, angering residents and activists who have...

In the past 24 hours, thirteen mircroquakes and one minor quake have struck the Salton Sea area where over 400 little quakes have shook the ground in the last month. That minor one, a 3.5 magnitude shaker, happened yesterday afternoon around 3 p.m. Athough, the number of quakes have calmed, "Seismologist Kate Hutton of the California Institute of Technology said it will take a fair amount of quiet time before scientists can declare the...

After her daughter died in a hit-and-run accident a couple weeks ago, the family is moving on, but not back to Santa Barbara. "The intersection [at Jefferson and Hoover] where [Adriana] Bachan was killed is notoriously treacherous for pedestrians, and her mother said she’s on a mission to see that the area’s safety is improved. She said she’d like to see a pedestrian bridge constructed," Santa Barabra's Noozhawk reported. Damien Newton at StreetsblogLA notes...

What once use to be a skyline of cranes, a sure sign of a neighborhood coming back, has now dwindled down to the last one. The construction crane at Concerto, a new condo development at 9th and Figueroa, was taken down yesterday leaving LA Live's long-necked machine as it completes glass work on the Ritz-Carlton tower. For blogdowntown's Eric Richardson, there's nothing wrong with this picture: "Of course, that's not exactly a bad thing....