Pacific National Corporation

This September 24, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks, invite Americans to go for a walk, kick a ball, plant a tree, or simply relax in a national park in observance of...

On Friday, April 4, 2008, the Federal Reserve made an emergency $650-million loan to Countrywide Financial Corp. to help what was then the No. 1 home lender from running out of operating cash. The Calabasas-based high-risk mortgage specialist, which...

Bank regulators are expected later today to take over Los Angeles-based California National Bank in what would mark the fourth-largest bank failure in the country this year, according to people familiar with the situation. The bank, a unit of FBOP......

On Valentine's Day, a young woman wearing a button-down shirt, bicycle shorts and a Soviet-era Budenovka hat, along with an adhesive mustache, stood on the stage of the Bootleg Theater. Her name was Russky Business. Her father's Fabergé egg had been...

Ten Years Ago The city secured a $600,000 grant from the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to be used toward purchasing a five-acre parcel in Hall-Beckley Canyon to preserve as open space. Twenty Years Ago The La Cañada branch of Security Pacific...

A Canadian developer has started work on a $100-million luxury apartment building in downtown Los Angeles, the first of three high-rise residential complexes it plans to build in the booming neighborhood. Vancouver-based Onni Group is erecting a 32-story...

Seventy years ago this week, Navy veteran Lou Gore was startled by the muffled thuds of explosions and a burst of commotion while cleaning up from breakfast below deck on the USS Phoenix, a cruiser docked at Pearl Harbor. Hurrying topside, the 18-year-...