With little comment and no hesitation, the state Coastal Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a 1,600-unit residential development known as the Kelly Ranch for the eastern shore of Carlsbad's Agua Hedionda Lagoon.
Plans to build a full-scale satellite campus for San Diego State University in North County cleared their first legislative hurdle Wednesday when the Senate Education Committee approved a $250,000 feasibility study for the project.
A lengthy salary dispute between the Las Virgenes Unified School District and its 322 teachers has been resolved six weeks after teachers first approved a new contract, school officials said Wednesday.
The Reagan Administration has decided to allow Algeria to purchase arms from the United States for the first time since that North African country's independence 23 years ago, State Department and Algerian diplomatic sources said Monday.
The Greater Irvine Credit Union says it is poised for "unbelievable growth"--possibly doubling its current $17 million in assets--following government approval to expand its charter to include potentially every company in Orange County.
By ruling last week that public workers have the freedom to strike, the California Supreme Court may well have set the stage for a highly charged political battle that could backfire on Republicans, who are determined to outlaw such strikes.
Ted Turner won the Securities and Exchange Commission's permission Friday to offer high-interest securities for CBS stock, but his $5.4-billion network takeover bid must still clear other legal and regulatory obstacles.
Legislative negotiators approved a proposed $35.3-billion state budget Tuesday that includes an unprecedented though limited policy aimed at restricting new pension fund investments in companies that do business with South Africa.
The $3.5-billion acquisition of American Broadcasting Cos. by Capital Cities Communications was approved by shareholders of both companies in separate meetings here Tuesday.
Jack Kent Cooke, the Washington Redskins owner, was given Federal Communications Commission permission Friday to appoint a trustee and proceed with his attempt to get control of media conglomerate Multimedia Inc.
The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has unanimously approved a traffic plan that could require developers to contribute as much as $235 million during the next two decades for new turn lanes, synchronized traffic signals, freeway ramps and other transportation projects in Westchester, Mar Vista, Playa del Rey and Venice.
A weeklong moratorium on firebreak burning ended Wednesday as state forestry officials agreed to let Los Angeles County firefighters set a two-mile controlled fire across parts of Calabasas and Agoura.
Continuing its effort to survive the ongoing shakeout among personal-computer makers, Eagle Computer Inc. of Garden Grove said Tuesday it is seeking shareholder approval for a new stock offering that could be used to finance new products.
A state agency Friday approved the construction of houses on an expanse of oak-sprinkled hillside and meadow in Calabasas that the federal government wants to buy for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
Icelanders can drink whiskey, vodka, wine and Brennivin, the national spirit also called "Black Death."
Trans World Airlines has won approval to start service at Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, a move that immediately drew the wrath of nearby San Fernando Valley homeowners and Burbank city officials.
Lion Country Safari has won the go-ahead to proceed with construction of a new water-theme park after the City Council overturned a city administrative decision that would have called for further study of the plan and approval by the Planning Commission.
The Los Angeles City Council tentatively approved an ordinance Wednesday that would require more than 56,000 businesses to register toxic chemicals stored in buildings throughout the city, a measure strongly supported by fire officials as a "model for the country."
A one-year high-rise building moratorium on congested Ventura Boulevard was given final approval Tuesday by the Los Angeles City Council.
The Long Beach City Council this week formalized an agreement, effective immediately, under which the Long Beach Museum of Art ended 30 years as a municipal facility to be run by a private nonprofit foundation.