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.
Greg Grammer, former assistant city manager, has been promoted to city manager in Rolling Hills Estates following the retirement of Douglas Prichard, the city said in a statement Monday.
A pilot found dead after the helicopter he was flying crash landed on Catalina Island has been identified as 60-year-old Philip Su Chu Yang of Palos Verdes Estates.
Rancho Palos Verdes recently celebrated 45 years as a city with two events.
A group of World War II and Korean War veterans living in a Rancho Palos Verdes senior community are being saluted for their service via a special photo gallery that’s set to be unveiled on Veteran’s Day.
A registered sex offender was ordered Tuesday to stand trial in the cold case slaying of a pregnant Wilmington mother found beaten to death on a Palos Verdes Estates beach nearly 40 years ago.
The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council on Tuesday night, July 31, is expected to consider whether to subpoena two private citizens who may have received confidential information leaked from closed city council sessions.
In the 1970s, when Bill Morse was a young reserve officer in the U.S. Army, he was a self-described Vietnam War objector.
Ending a long-running emotional legal battle, Ports O’Call Restaurant in San Pedro was locked down by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department early Tuesday.
Some residents in Palos Verdes Estates are up in arms over a Confederate battle flag seen flying over a homeowner's backyard.
With the mammoth bundle of uncounted Los Angles County ballots left after the June 5 primary down to about 1,000, the outcome of the Rolling Hills Estates City Council election is at last ticking toward “final" status.
Out of fear of perpetuating the Peninsula's image as a “playground” for Los Angeles County, Rancho Palos Verdes City Council voted to order city staff to stop advertising some Recreation and Parks events on the city’s Facebook page.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the Port of Los Angeles to evict Ports O’ Call Restaurant in San Pedro to make way for a new waterfront development.
Retired Rancho Palos Verdes ophthalmologist Allen Ginsburg knows all too well what it’s like to tell someone they will lose their ability to see.
A woman arrested in the stabbing death of a woman in a mall parking structure in Rolling Hills Estates was released from custody Tuesday, a day after the District Attorney’s Office — citing the need for more investigation — held off on filing a case against her.
Two men escaped injury after a boat they were in caught fire Monday morning off the coast near Hermosa Beach.
A surge in sick and dying brown pelicans being brought into wildlife rehabilitation centers along the Southern California coast is baffling biologists.
By Megan Barnes
Larry Clark, a former Rancho Palos Verdes mayor and California coastal commissioner who waged a public battle against pancreatic cancer for more than five years and became an inspirational ambassador for the nonprofit group the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, died Wednesday. He was 69.
A Palos Verdes Estates man was sentenced Wednesday to 14 days in jail for an October 2015 attack that left a then 50-year old man with a traumatic head injury.
As one of downtown San Pedro’s most prominent buildings closed escrow last week, nearly a dozen other commercial properties are up for sale in and around the historic shopping district.
A woman hailed by members of the MeToo movement has settled her sexual harassment lawsuit against the staffing agency that placed her in a dishwashing position at the Terranea Resort for $250,000, her attorney announced Tuesday.
Deputies with the Lomita Sheriff’s Station are looking for three suspects who stole a wallet out of an unlocked vehicle and made purchase at a local electronics store.
By Megan Barnes
Though relieved Measure E passed, balanced the city’s budget and assured a future for the city’s police department, the Palos Verdes Estates City Council last week was faced with residents who leveled such allegations as bullying and publicly chiding an elected official for speaking out agai…
San Pedro’s long planned housing development, Highpark (formerly Ponte Vista) has been purchased by a new owner as construction on some 676 homes is finally close to launching after more than a decade of planning and preparation.
Marking a new beginning after a tumultuous year for the small community of Palos Verdes Estates, the city council has named Betty Lin Peterson as mayor on Tuesday night.
In an example of “real-world learning” at Marymount California University, Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell shared some of the highs of lows of law enforcement with nearly 200 criminal justice students, faculty and staff on Tuesday, April 24.
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The Rancho Palos Verdes City Council on Tuesday night voted to replace their City Attorney Dave Aleshire with his law firm partner, Bill Wynder.
Summer might get a little less leisurely for Peninsula students this year.
When the Pacific Gray Whale migrates up the coast of California, it’s a cause to celebrate. And Rancho Palos Verdes celebrated in style with a “Whale of a Day.”
California Water Service has cleared one of the last major hurdles for a critical $60 million water pipeline project on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, having resolved the bulk of residents’ concerns about noise, aesthetics and geotechnical issues.
Palos Verdes Estates and Miraleste students can now apply for a scholarship from the Palos Verdes Homes Association.
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District is looking for volunteers for its new Budget Advisory Committee.
The proper way to dispose of the American flag is through a retirement ceremony, and together Boy Scouts Troop 128 , the Navigators, and Fire Stations 53 and 106 conducted such a ceremony March 5 at the Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall.
On Feb. 10, a 63-year-old man from Long Beach drove his SUV to the edge of a steep cliff in Palos Verdes Estates. He wasn’t there to enjoy the view; he was there to kill himself.
In a major blow to the most high-profile legal effort yet to take down a group of territorial surfers in Palos Verdes Estates, a judge has dismissed a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the city nearly two years ago.
A group of residents concerned about losing local control in Rancho Palos Verdes is organizing a campaign to become a charter city, which would operate less at the whim of state lawmakers in Sacramento.
In the late 60’s, Beverly Palmer was a doctoral student in the counseling psychology department at Ohio State; she was fascinated by the mystery of love, and she wasn’t alone. Centuries before, Aristotle, Plato, and Shakespeare wrote about the subject, and Oscar Wilde even said, “The myster…
Two Palos Verdes cities ranked high in the Safest Cities in California for 2018 list, with Palos Verdes Estates coming in in fourth place and Rancho Palos Verdes coming in 11th out of 100.
The Palos Verdes Village, a nonprofit that aims help older people on the Peninsula, announced a change to its board for 2018.
Police arrested a Palos Verdes Estates man, recovered five guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition, and seized plastic bags containing heroin and methamphetamine during a narcotics operation last week.
Over 100 volunteers gathered at the Alta Vicente Reserve in Rancho Palos Verdes on Martin Luther King Jr. day to help restore the natural land. They installed 400 native and drought tolerant plants and pulled invasive weeds from an acre of land, according to Conservancy Volunteer Coordinator…
Palos Verdes Estates police Capt. Mark Velez, who joined the agency in 1989 and rose through the ranks, was announced Wednesday as the city’s new police chief, sending a message to the community that the department is here to stay.
Here’s some of what’s on the court docket for 2018. All dates are subject to change.
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Schools in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District are falling apart and the board of education is trying to find the funds to fix them.
In an effort to curb drunk driving on the Peninsula, the Palos Verdes Peninsula Transit Authority will be offering free bus services on New Year’s Eve in Rolling Hills Estates, Palos Verdes Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes.
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