The driver of a big rig truck apparently lost control of the vehicle and crashed the truck in the parking lot of a popular La Canada-Flintridge restaurant. The accident took place around 6:30 this morning outside the Hill Street Cafe on Foothill Boulevard, as employees were arriving to work at the eatery. One person suffered minor injuries when the big rig smashed into several parked cars. According to a live report on KTLA, it is......

Forget June Gloom... for one major section of Descanso Gardens in La Canada it's all about June Bloom! The roses in the International Rosarium are the star players this month (the camellias, irises, and lilacs are done for the season, alas) and a visit to the horticultural oasis that was bought and developed in 1937 by E. Manchester Boddy, (then publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News) is a pleasant way to spend a late-spring......

Volume at the Los Angeles port, the biggest in the U.S., is expected to drop for the first time in four years. Experts attributed the decline to the slumping housing market and continued loss of confidence in imported goods. I don't pretend to be an expert, but we'll cheer up when they stop putting plastic in their toys. A woman was arrested and charged with murder, stemming from an incident in which she allegedly......

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......

Sunday, July 23 Person(s) unknown entered the Child Educational Center at 140 Foothill Blvd. and stole three cell phones. Saturday, July 22 Person(s) unknown attempted to enter two locked vehicles parked at 1113 Foothill Blvd. Person(s) unknown entered a locked vehicle parked in the 4700 block of La Cañada Blvd. and stole a global positioning system. Person(s) unknown entered Pepe's Restaurant at 927 Foothill Blvd. and stole money from the cash register. Person(s) unknown......

Seems that the Sixth Sense kid, actor Haley Joel Osment, has grown up and finally made the Hollywood headlines the old-fashioned way: He got into a car accident around 1 a.m. this morning driving around La Canada-Flintridge and landed in the hospital. According to an Associated Press story: [Osment] was driving a 1995 Saturn about 1 a.m. when the car collided with a brick pillar and flipped, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Greg......

If you're running south to avoid the La Canada-Flintridge fire, we reccomend that you don't run too far south, since Compton looks like it's about to become the Murder Capital of America. Last night on The West Wing, SoCal residents found themselves running for their lives, but not knowing which way to run. While LA isn't about to have radioactive steam vented into the atmosphere (it's bad enough already, thank you very much), the......

Fires, fires everywhere. The Seventh Street Produce Mart is in flames in downtown Los Angeles; 100 firefighters are at the scene, the AP reports. Early this morning 4 Tujunga homes were damaged by fire, one seriously. Some residents were injured. Brush fires in La Canada-Flintridge were started by a power line that blew over last night; although the fire is presently contained, firemen warn that with current wind conditions, they need to make sure......

Here's some upcoming events happening around town: Tonight: If you haven't been able to get your hands on James Stewart's "Disney War," you should be able to buy one at the Central Library tonight when the author converses with Marty Kaplan, Director, Norman Lear Center and Associate Dean, USC Annenberg School for Communication, about dramatic, inside story of what drove America’s best-known entertainment company to civil war. During the Q&A ask the prize-winning journalist if......

We're changing things up a bit here at LAist. Because we live in such a vibrant, socially active city, there are things going on all the time. We have long wanted to be able to list events in advance (for the benefit of our wonderful readers), so starting today we have implemented a new strategy: a week's events in advance. We will still post featured events each day, but we've added a permanent sidebar......