Minutes after a legislative committee approved his $176-million plan for cleaning up sewage and toxic pollutants along the Mexican border, Assembly Speaker Willie Brown was being congratulated by colleagues at a Capitol-area restaurant frequented by the state government's power elite.
The San Diego Assn. of Governments board voted Friday to seek legislation that would enable it to ask county voters for a sales tax increase to help fund transportation projects.
Bus drivers for the Southern California Rapid Transit District voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve a new 41-month contract, the longest in RTD history.
In a formal opinion, the Los Angeles city attorney's office said Tuesday that it believes the city can legally divest its funds from firms that do business in South Africa, but warned that such a venture risks a court challenge and an uncertain legal outcome.
--A judge has come to the rescue of a woman ordered to abandon ship by Newark, N.J., officials.
An owner of Meadowlark Airport in Huntington Beach, site of several aircraft accidents in the past decade, said Saturday that his family wants to close the airport and build homes and a shopping center on the site.
A bill sought by leading consumer organizations that would have given the state Insurance Department the power to say yes or no to any sizable fluctuation in insurance rates, and put a consumer's advocate in the Insurance Department, was killed Tuesday in the Assembly Ways and Means Committee.
Spokesmen for the two air carriers said the request was made to the Transportation Department after the Justice Department said it would not oppose the merger on competitive grounds and after agreements were reached on minimum service levels in New York and Massachusetts.
Orange County health officials pronounced the waters off Seal Beach safe Friday afternoon as cleanup crews carted off the last of nearly 600 tons of sand contaminated by crude oil that leaked into the ocean from an underwater pipeline.
Citing the "health, safety and welfare of the public," Orange County supervisors Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a no-smoking law that would apply to private businesses in unincorporated county territory.
Over the years, Morning Briefing has tripped up more than once on its trivia answers, but last week it took an all-time pratfall when it listed Bob Richards, Bruce Jenner, Mary Lou Retton, Pete Rose, Walter Payton and Chris Evert as the only athletes who have been pictured on Wheaties...
The new leaders of the embattled PTL ministry voted today to have the ministry's accounts audited and said that Jim Bakker, whose extramarital sexual encounter seven years ago led to his resignation from the group's presidency last week, will continue to be paid but will never get the job back.
San Diego Gas & Electric's board of directors recommended Monday that the utility form a holding company that will allow it to diversify into non-regulated ventures.
Trans World Airlines, which has been fighting a takeover by investor Carl C.
After years of debate ending in a three-hour public hearing Tuesday night, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors has given final approval to a privately run trash-fired power plant.
Hughes Aircraft Co. has won the city's approval for three new buildings that will house offices for engineering, research, development and some light manufacturing.
The City Council gave unanimous approval Wednesday night to an ordinance allowing Norco homeowners to put mobile homes in their backyards, but only to house elderly relatives needing their care.
Saudi Arabia, hungry for cash because of the world oil glut, has agreed for the first time to sell crude to its Western partners in Aramco on the basis of the oil's final-product value, industry sources said today.
Investigators who examined tapes of tower communications concluded today that the pilot of a helicopter that forced a crowded Eastern Airlines jet to abort its takeoff had received clearance to cross the runway, federal officials said.
Lawyers have struck back at the Los Angeles County Medical Assn. for touting a computer service that identifies patients who have filed lawsuits.