Yusra Farzan
General Assignment Reporter at LAist
Reporter at KPCC-FM (Pasadena, CA)
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20 hours ago |
laist.com | Yusra Farzan
A concert hall, a place for swap meets, a drive-in movie theater, or a new venue for Tustin Art Walk. These are some of the ideas that Tustin residents shared for what should happen to the city’s remaining historic World War II blimp hangar. On Tuesday evening, around 50 residents showed up for a community meeting held near Veterans Park, with the hangar visible in the distance.
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2 days ago |
laist.com | Yusra Farzan
San Clemente will begin searching offshore from Dana Point to Camp Pendleton for some “Goldilocks” sand it can use to replenish its own shorelines — or risk losing its reputation as a beach destination. Coastal erosion over the years has left some of the city’s beaches with only a narrow strip of sand — cutting off public access in some areas and threatening to interrupt the beach-front train service that connects Los Angeles County and San Diego County.
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5 days ago |
laist.com | Yusra Farzan
Rancho Palos Verdes may not be able to stop the landslide that continues to pull entire neighborhoods apart, but when it comes to its burgeoning population of noisy peacocks, officials will soon be deploying a tried and tested solution: relocation. Since last year, the city’s peafowl population has increased 31% to 215 birds, prompting city leaders this week to approve plans to “humanely trap” and relocate some of them to maintain the population at around 134.
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6 days ago |
laist.com | Yusra Farzan
It’s a balmy Tuesday morning in Rancho Palos Verdes, and people are slowly starting to trickle into a nondescript medical office building. They bring plates, removing the aluminium foil and plastic film to reveal banana bread drizzled with chocolate sauce and a pistachio crumb, plump nazook cookies, a cinnamon cake and bite-sized pieces of cantaloupe. Black tea is poured into glasses.
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1 week ago |
laist.com | Yusra Farzan
Originally promised in 2021, Orange County officials on Wednesday unveiled the first streetcar for a new light rail system that’s now heading into a testing phase. Eventually, six trolleys will be operational while two others will be kept as spares. Orange County Transportation Authority officials will now begin testing what’s called the OC Streetcar along its four-mile route from Santa Ana to Garden Grove.
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