Thursday, April 2, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1902, Thomas Tally opened his Electric Theatre on South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, widely considered the first permanent movie theater in the country built solely for screening films. Several LA chefs and restaurants landed on the James Beard Awards finalist list, one of […]

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple Computer in a Los Altos garage. The company turns 50 today. Welcome to the inaugural edition of The California Flyover! From traffic on the 5 to fog on the Golden Gate, from surf at Malibu to […]

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1963, Los Angeles’ last streetcar made its final run, ending the city’s Yellow Car system and closing the chapter on its streetcar era. Fresno County is gearing up for a legal battle with an unexpected opponent: itself. A dispute over real estate fees could set […]

Monday, March 30, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 2010, legendary East LA math teacher Jaime Escalante died in Roseville. He built a calculus program at Garfield High so successful that testing officials accused his students of cheating, inspiring the film Stand and Deliver. A second-grader from Mountain View is sending his work to […]

Friday, March 27, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1851, the Mariposa Battalion entered Yosemite Valley, becoming the first documented non-Indigenous people to set foot in what would become one of California’s most iconic landscapes. Central Coast farmers are dealing with a record March heat wave that’s already stressing crops and speeding up growth. […]

Thursday, March 26, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1874, poet Robert Frost was born in San Francisco. He spent his first 11 years in the city before moving to Massachusetts, where his New England roots would later shape some of America’s most beloved poetry. California’s oil fight is heating up, with lawsuits, refinery […]

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1983, Michael Jackson debuted the moonwalk at Pasadena’s Civic Auditorium during a taping of the Motown 25 anniversary special. Watch here.  A Montecito home packed with thousands of pig figurines is about to hit the market, but the collection won’t be coming with it. We’ve […]

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1860, the clipper ship Andrew Jackson dropped anchor in San Francisco after completing a record-setting pilot-to-pilot passage from New York: 89 days and 4 hours around Cape Horn. Six candidates take the stage tonight in California’s governor’s race. We have a full preview in Top Stories. […]

Monday, March 23, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1868, Gov. Henry Haight signed the Organic Act, establishing the University of California on the Oakland site of the debt-strapped College of California, which dissolved and turned over its land and buildings to launch the new public university. One of the world’s largest freestanding structures […]

Friday, March 20, 2026 Good Morning! On this day in 1976, a San Francisco jury convicted newspaper heiress Patty Hearst of bank robbery, about two years after the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped her from her Berkeley apartment. San Juan Capistrano is celebrating the swallows’ famous return with festivities that kicked off yesterday and continue into […]