Four times a week, 85-year-old Ron Kraft drives from his senior living community in Walteria to a cozy one-story home in West Torrance where his wife of 56 years now lives.
Yep, it’s a mess.
Dubbing it as “rescuing the rescuers,” Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn on Monday, Jan. 13, donated $100,000 to help San Pedro’s struggling Mammal Care Center.
The Palos Verdes Peninsula was virtually a blank canvas when the Illinois farmhand-turned-banker Frank Vanderlip bought 16,000 acres in 1913, covering an area from San Pedro to Palos Verdes Estates.
Voters on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in less than two months will decide on a $398 million bond measure that would go toward repairs and new construction throughout the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District.
The direct messages on social media piled up quickly. Then came threatening voicemails, fake negative reviews on the internet, and harassment of customers and family members.
Animal cruelty investigators continued their search this week for a driver responsible for fatally hitting a full-grown peacock with an SUV in Rolling Hills Estates last month, officials said.
San Pedro’s Marine Mammal Care Center — a hospital and rehabilitation center for stranded, sick and injured sea lions and elephant seals — has operated for nearly 30 years, nursing thousands of animals back to health.
Featuring 15 movies in two hours, the sixth annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival takes place in San Pedro on Sunday, Jan. 12, and Sunday, Jan. 26, in Torrance.
A 36-year-old Rolling Hills Estates man was sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison Tuesday, after pleading no contest to possessing child porn and inappropriately touching children in two separate incidents dating back to 2003.
Like clockwork, right after Christmas, the annual gray whale migration begins.
There are no leads in the now-confirmed theft of a popular view scope at San Pedro’s Gaffey Street lookout point, according to police.
Several high schools in the South Bay and around Long Beach area appear to be among the best in the nation at teaching STEM — at least according to one ranking.
The Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay will present its third concert of the 2019-2020 season featuring multi-international prize winner Claire Huangci on piano. The concert is Sunday, Jan. 12 at the Palos Verdes Performing Arts Norris Theatre, 27570 Norris Center Drive, Rolling Hills Estates.
Story: U.S.-China trade war causes instability at Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the two largest ports in the country.
Story: A group of territorial, middle-aged surfers dubbed the Bay Boys spent years harassing anyone who tried to use a stretch of beach on the peninsula they thought belonged to them.
An updated slate of officers and trustees was sworn in by The Palos Verdes Library District Board of Trustees during its Dec. 19 meeting. New trustee Bob Parke took the oath of office, along with returning trustees Brian Campbell and Rosa Kwon Easton. Parke replaces Debby Stegura, who chose …
Palos Verdes resident Lianne LaReine could easily be called the next great communicator.
It was Christmas morning when Deborah Gray noticed something in her San Pedro neighborhood was missing.
Rancho Vista Elementary and Silver Spur Elementary are among several South Bay and Long Beach elementary schools that can now call themselves distinguished.
Robert “Bob” Burnside had a saying: Once a lifeguard, always a lifeguard.
The pilot of the single-engine plane who died after crashing into an Upland home on Nov. 7 has been identified as Esmail Soltani, 49, of Palos Verdes Estates.
Since October, four Palos Verdes Estates Police Department employees, including two corporals and one officer, have left the department. Another officer and a sergeant plan to leave within the next month—and the police chief will depart early next year.
Lunada Bay residents Kim Rhodes and her 10-year-old daughter, Brynne, have taken the neighborhood lemonade stand to a whole new level.
Rancho Palos Verdes has adopted a wildlife and habitat conservation plan, viewed as a major milestone for the city even though it had been acting on a draft version of the plan for the past 15 years.
George Matthews knows what it’s like to be on the streets.
Cooler days inspire hotter beverages. And loyal supporters inspired an afternoon of thanks.
The City of Rolling Hills Estates will hold its annual Palos Verdes Peninsula Holiday Parade of Lights, Saturday, December 7, starting at 6 p.m. at the Peninsula Shopping Center.
San Pedro’s long wait for a redeveloped waterfront got a boost on Thursday, Nov. 21, following years of build-up and some delays that had created open skepticism in recent months.
Join the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy for an exploration of awe-inspiring landscapes, historic sites and the untamed wilderness of America’s great parks.
Southern California will need to make room for another 1.3 million more housing units over the next 10 years, with the coastal cities of Los Angeles and Orange counties the preferred destination rather than inland communities, according to a draft plan approved this week by a regional govern…
Eric Stevens doesn’t want this to be a sad story.
A nostalgic and historic event is coming to Palos Verdes High School to celebrate with all past and present Sea Kings.
Early returns from the Tuesday night, Nov. 5, election in Rancho Palos Verdes showed a tight race for three City Council seats, with David Bradley, Barbara Ferraro and incumbent Ken Dyda leading the field.
A Rancho Palos Verdes ballot measure, which would have increased labor standards for local hospitality workers and require panic buttons, appeared to face defeat on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
Calling all writers, poets and illustrators who are serious about seeing their work come to life in a contemplative collection of stories, poems and cover art.
Linda Broudreaux stood on the shore of Malaga Cove Beach in Palos Verdes Estates, took a deep breath of ocean air and thought of her late mother.
Los Angeles County firefighters quickly got a handle on a small brush fire in Palos Verdes Estates, keeping the blaze to less than two acres Friday morning, Oct. 25, authorities said.
Surfer Alex Gray knows the harm addiction can cause.
Gray whales had a rough go last season as they made their annual migration — skinny, emaciated, even dead whales showing up along the West Coast prompting concern over the health of the species.
Do you believe, really believe, in witches?
The Palos Verdes Chamber of Commerce’s annual legislative forum wooed a handful of the South Bay’s heavy hitters to the Palos Verdes Golf Club on Friday, Oct. 11, for an afternoon of pitch-making, cheer-leading and oversized homemade cookies.
Layla Paige Sonnen, born with an incurable brain disorder, died days after her second birthday. Her life was short, but her impact on people around her was immeasurable, her family said.
Major retailer Target recently signed a lease to open one of its smaller format stores at Peninsula Shopping Center, according to a spokesperson for Vestar, which owns the center.
Since she was a child, Terri Haack, president of the upscale Terranea Resort, had been unconsciously conditioning herself to become the chief caretaker of 102-acres of wonderment in Rancho Palos Verdes.
A loose tire slammed into the windshield of an SUV on the 405 Freeway in Long Beach, leaving the vehicle’s driver dead and its passenger hospitalized Sunday afternoon, Sept. 29.
Firefighters rescued someone who fell 200 feet from a cliff in Palos Verdes Estates Thursday, Sept. 26, authorities said.
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