Los Angeles County marked its eighth year in row of tourism growth last year and hosted an estimated 50 million visitors. The county set a tourism record, which was a 3.1 percent improvement of 2017’s visitors (48.5 million). The growth came thanks to a slight increase in international tourists. According to tourism officials, the number […]

In December, American Airlines launched a program that uses facial recognition technology for some fliers at Los Angeles International Airport. American Airlines is one of the largest airline companies in the world and its use of biometric to identify travelers could lead to the expansion of the technology. The airline began using facial recognition cameras […]

By: Raul Riesgo Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to travel from downtown Los Angeles to a farm several hours away. The farm tour was part of an effort by farmers to build bridges with people like me who live in cities and have very little understanding or appreciation of our California-grown food supply. […]

If you fly to international locations or plan to fly international from the San Jose airport, get ready to wait less going through federal customs checkpoints. Earlier this month, Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport announced that it has agreed to become the first airport on the West Coast to launch facial recognition technology […]

The last freeway to be built in the Los Angeles County was the Century Freeway (Interstate 105) in 1993, which officials claimed would more than likely be the last of the great Southern California freeways. It appears that Southern California will get a new freeway because the California Department of Transportation, in cooperation with a […]

In late January, the first formal state audit of the California bullet train project was authorized by the legislature’s joint audit committee. The audit was authorized after the rail authority disclosed that the cost of building the first 119 miles of track in the Central Valley would cost $10.6 billion, which is a 77 percent […]

Department of Motor Vehicles offices around the state are preparing for a rush of customers as the deadline to meet new federal standards for state licenses and ID cards approaches. The new standards mean that California fliers who use their driver’s license or identification card to board domestic flights will no longer be able to […]

The trend of people moving out of California appears to have intensified over the last couple of years. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, domestic migrants are leaving California more quickly than they enter it. The good news is that the overall rate of people leaving is less than what it was in the early […]

The hidden story from Super Bowl 50 – teens rescued from forced prostitution in San Francisco during Super Bowl week. In a piece by Los Angeles Times Reporter, Sarah Parvini, some of the victims had previously been reported missing by their parents, Federal Bureau of Investigation officials said. They ranged in age from 14 to 17. […]

Evan Sernofisky, Michael Cabanatuan and Demian Bulwa report from San Francisco that a recent train killing exposes the large security gap – that many of the train cameras are decoys and don’t work. BART police investigating the weekend killing of a passenger on a train in Oakland have no onboard video of the crime, even […]