Circling The News

A majority of people who still have houses standing in the Huntington Palisades and the Highlands have not moved back to their homes. The reasons given are the number of trucks/debris removal, lack of remediation, no businesses open and that…

    The World Central Kitchen (WCK) was one of the first nonprofits on the scene in Pacific Palisades after the January 7 fire. After three months on the scene, providing hot meals to first responders, construction crews, the National…

One of the first indicators that Pacific Palisades was healing was after the fire when the Garden Café reopened on La Cruz on March 7. But that was nothing compared to the event that happened on April 5. Almost 200…

Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the head of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, resigned on Friday. She had accepted the position as CEO in 2023 for an annual salary of $430,000 dollars. In July 2023, LAHSA voted Supervisor Lindsey Horvath…

A reader, whose home was destroyed in the fire, now has a new address – as do many Pacific Palisades residents. She wrote: “I discovered that my permanent USPS address change triggered a change in my voter registration, although I…

By TIM CAMPBELL At the March 27 hearing before federal Judge David O. Carter, Mayor Bass, after she made her last minute appearance before the court, said she agreed with parts of the audit, but then tried to minimize the…

A press conference was held this morning at Palisades Charter Elementary School to mark the debris removal from that campus. Palisades Charter High School, which suffered about 30 percent damage at the campus, was cleared in February. Marquez Charter Elementary…

The Pacific Palisades Library that was destroyed by the fire should be razed by this weekend. The debris removal was given to the Army Corps of Engineers, who began work two days ago. At the Recreation and Park Board of…

At the L.A. City Recreation and Board of Commissioners (RAP) meeting today at Stoner Park, the commissioners listened to General Manager Jimmy Kim’s report on Pacific Palisades Recreation Center. The Commissioners also heard public comments from Palisades Park Advisory Members…