September 10, 2026
September 10, 2026
LOS ANGELES - A brush fire broke out Wednesday afternoon along the 405 Freeway near the Getty Center, prompting evacuation warnings in Brentwood and Bel-Air and forcing the museum to close. The Los Angeles Fire Department said the blaze, named the Getty Fire, was reported about 4:15 to 4:30 p.m. near Getty Center Drive in the Sepulveda Pass. Early estimates put it at about 5 acres of well-involved brush. Later reports said it grew to roughly 20 to 25 acres before crews...
A large sinkhole opened under a Malibu beachfront driveway this week, collapsing pavement, damaging utilities, and prompting a local emergency. Officials say coastal erosion and leftover storm swell from former Hurricane Marie washed out the ground beneath Sea Level Drive. No injuries have been reported. The City of Malibu issued an evacuation order for 31 homes on Sea Level Drive Los Angeles County firefighters were called to the 31600 block of Sea Level Drive around 5:45...
On September 8, 2026, the City Council unanimously approved a design contract for a two-way concrete-protected bikeway on 14th Street. The council awarded RFP SP2805 to Kimley-Horn for up to $1,999,205 over five years to design the conversion of existing painted bike lanes between Pico Boulevard and Washington Avenue into a concrete-separated two-way facility, including raised crossings, signal changes, and bus/bike mixing zones. Construction is targeted for fall 2028. The...
Jacob Coxon, a pretraining researcher who spent three years at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned from Anthropic on September 9, 2026, accusing both companies of racing toward self-improving superintelligence without acting responsibly and "gambling with our lives." In a thread posted on X, Coxon said future systems would soon be superhuman, able to hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. He argued that recent progress in those...
MARINA DEL REY — A pedestrian was killed Tuesday night on Lincoln Boulevard at the eastbound 90 (Marina) Freeway entrance, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The crash, first reported on the Citizen App, was later confirmed through City News Service reporting published by Westside Current. Police said the collision happened about 9:58 p.m. Tuesday. A vehicle traveling south on Lincoln Boulevard struck the pedestrian, who was walking in traffic lane 3. The impact threw...
SANTA MONICA - An Extreme Heat Warning is in effect through 8 p.m. Thursday for Los Angeles County beaches, including Santa Monica, as a heat dome and leftover tropical moisture collide over Southern California. The heat warning will last until 8 PM PST, on September 11th. ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee posted Wednesday that she was "perspiring in the middle of the night in LA," warning that the heat index could climb as high as 113 degrees in parts of Los Angeles...
TOLEDO, Ohio - A fire gutted the vacant former St. Agnes Catholic Church in the city's Five Points neighborhood on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026, causing its steeple to collapse and leaving the 116-year-old building a total loss. Toledo Fire and Rescue Department crews were dispatched around 6:30 a.m. after reports of heavy black smoke coming from the roof of the church on the 3000 block of Martha Avenue. Firefighters arrived to find the structure already heavily involved and...
Tropical moisture from Hurricane Marie, remaining hundreds of miles offshore, delivered widespread showers and locally heavier downpours across Santa Monica and Los Angeles County on Sunday, September 6. Rain began early in the morning and continued on and off through the afternoon and evening, with isolated thunderstorms in some areas. National Weather Service forecasts issued Saturday and early Sunday called for generally light amounts-most locations a quarter-inch or less,...
A baby bottlenose dolphin was pulled from the water, held aloft like a prize, and later found dead on a Ceuta beach Wednesday - sparking viral outrage, animal-rights complaints, and a Guardia Civil probe. Footage circulating on social media shows a group of men on Playa del Trampolín lifting the small cetacean amid cheers and clapping. One man grins while holding the animal overhead. Another records on a smartphone. Local influencer Juan Ruiz, who captured part of the scene,...
SACRAMENTO - Conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley sued California Friday, accusing Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta of trying to muzzle him after he started exposing alleged fraud in taxpayer-funded immigrant programs. America First Legal and San Diego lawyer John W. Howard filed the federal complaint in Sacramento on behalf of Shirley against Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber. They want a judge to declare Assembly Bill 2624 unconstitutional and block...
A gay photographer known for covering pro-Palestinian street protests and a friend were shot dead in a Tucson parking lot this week — then the gunman turned the weapon on himself. Police say the massacre outside Venture-N, a longtime midtown gay bar, was a targeted hate crime against the LGBTQ community. The killer, they say, had a list of other gay-friendly businesses on him and left more writings at home spelling out why he did it. Cameron Davis Capara, 33, and Vincent...
WEST LOS ANGELES - A man was shot Friday afternoon in the Sawtelle neighborhood of West Los Angeles, and police are searching for a suspect. Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department's West Los Angeles Division responded about 4 p.m. Sept. 4 to the intersection of Sawtelle Boulevard and Ohio Avenue after reports of a shooting. They found a man with gunshot wounds. He was transported to a hospital with injuries to the head and torso and was alive when officers arrived....
Across from Crypto.com Arena, three unfinished towers still wear the spray paint that made them famous. Oceanwide Plaza was supposed to be a luxury hotel, condos, and retail podium - Beijing capital planted in the middle of downtown Los Angeles. Instead it became a $1.2 billion steel skeleton, stalled at about 60 percent complete after 2019, tagged across dozens of floors in 2024, then forced into bankruptcy. A local-Australian joint venture is now trying to buy it out for...
Tropical moisture from Hurricane Marie, remaining hundreds of miles offshore, delivered widespread showers and locally heavier downpours across Santa Monica and Los Angeles County on Sunday, September 6. Rain began early in the morning and continued on and off through the afternoon, with thunderstorms possible in some areas. National Weather Service forecasts issued Saturday and early Sunday called for generally light amounts-most locations a quarter-inch or less, with...
Dear Editor: On Tuesday, September 8, 2026 the Santa Monica City Council will vote on an ordinance implementing SB 79 development standards. The Pico Neighborhood Association (PNA) Board of Directors strongly opposes Option 1. Our opposition is rooted in the history and reality of environmental racism in the Pico Neighborhood. The construction of the I-10 Freeway cut through and isolated the Pico Neighborhood, demolishing homes, displacing residents and leaving remaining...
