Sierra Madre
Politics
Madre’s Oaxacan Restaurant Cleared To Reopen By Health Department
Madre’s Oaxacan Restaurant has been cleared to reopen by the Los Angeles County Health Department. On Friday, the Health Department confirmed that Madre’s Oaxacan Restaurant passed an inspection to be able to reopen. The announcement was made days after the Health Department said the restaurant was found to have several violations that led to over ...
LAX, Van Nuys Airport remove foam containing harmful chemicals from fire fighting fleet
A project intended to remove firefighting foam containing harmful chemicals from a fleet of aircraft rescue and fire fighting vehicles at the city’s two airports is nearing completion, officials announced Friday.
UCLA Baseball Stadium Closed On Account Of Illegal Lease & Failing To Provide Adequate Care For Military Veterans
If you're going to lease your baseball stadium on veterans' land, and you don't do enough work with the Department of Veteran Affairs to adequately provide for the vets, you're liable to have a problem on your hands. UCLA is feeling the consequences of this. Jackie Robinson Stadium was closed off on the order of federal judge David O. Carter earlier this week, as reported by the Associated Press (h/t Military News). UCLA's lease on the stadium was deemed illegal because the plot of land it's on isn't predominantly focused on providing for military veterans. Carter didn't believe the enhanced proposal presented...
As theaters struggle, many independent cinemas in Los Angeles are finding their audience
LOS ANGELES (AP) — On a hot summer evening, Miles Villalon lined up outside the New Beverly Cinema, hours before showtime. The 36-year-old already had tickets to the Watergate-themed double feature of 1976’s “All the President’s Men” and 1999’s “Dick.” But Villalon braved Los Angeles’ infamous rush-hour traffic to snag front-row seats at Quentin Tarantino’s historic theater. This level of dedication is routine for the Starbucks barista and aspiring filmmaker, who typically sees up to six movies a week in theaters, and almost exclusively in independently owned theaters in and around Los Angeles. “I always say it feels like church,” he said. “When I go to AMC, I just sit there. And I can’t really experience that communal thing that we have here, where we’re all just worshipping at the altar of celluloid.”
Lithium-ion battery truck fire spurs call for better inspections
In response to a lithium battery fire that shut down some activities at the Port of Los Angeles, City Councilman Tim McOsker introduced a motion Friday calling for greater inspection of trailers to prevent similar emergencies from happening.
They have been standing for five days after the Israeli army targeted their home, and the Civil Defense was unable to remove their mother’s body.Do you know what oppression is? This is what our children have lived through, generation after generation. Don’t tell me Hamas, but rather their crimes for 75 years against a defenseless, oppressed people.
SoCal ambulances respond to help with emergency response to Hurricane Helene
First responders from Southern California are headed to the East Coast to help with the emergency response to Hurricane Helene.The federal government put out the call on Thursday and Falck private ambulance company responded.Seven ambulances staffed by paramedics and EMTs from Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties departed on the 2,500-mile journey Thursday afternoon. The deployment is expected to be up to 14 days."The good part about Falck is we have services throughout the U.S. and California and so we're able to take a couple from each jurisdiction so as not to deplete one area, put them together in what we call a strike team," said Lyle Hanson, managing director of Falck Mobile Health.Both basic and advanced life-support teams are being dispatched.Falck has responded to hurricanes in the past, but this is the farthest they have ever traveled from the West Coast. They're headed to a staging area in Greensville, South Carolina.
It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency:
Our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. As a platform hosting over 100,000 pieces of content published daily, we cannot pre-vet content, but we strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation.