Police Foundation Host Family Fun Day Saturday
Release by the Burbank Police Dept.: Hosted by the Burbank Police Foundation, Family Fun Day is a wonderful event benefiting the Burbank Police Department and their K-9 and Mounted Units. This annual...
View ArticleCaltrans Latest Construction Updates and Detours
Front Street Long-Term Closure: Front Street between the Metrolink station (south of the Magnolia Boulevard Bridge) and Burbank Boulevard will be a northbound-only one-way street. For access to the...
View ArticleGlendale Woman Killed After Being Hit by Metrolink Train
A woman was struck and killed by a Metrolink passenger train Thursday evening near the Downtown Burbank train station, located at 201 North Front Street. On Thursday, October 26, Burbank Police...
View ArticleBurbank Football Holds Off Muir, 38-31, For Share Of Pacific League Title
By Rick Assad There were moments of high drama, extreme tension, but in the end pure relief and exultation by the Burbank High football team. It took everything the Bulldogs had and then some in order...
View ArticleBurroughs Girls’ Volleyball Tops Burbank to Take Home Pacific League Title
(Photo by © Ross A. Benson) Marin Grote has been a key figure for the Burroughs girls’ volleyball team the last four years. Tuesday night the 6-foot-4 outside hitter concluded the regular season of her...
View ArticleBurroughs, Burbank Football Ready to Clash on Friday
By Rick Assad Situated slightly less than two miles apart, Burroughs High and Burbank are long and fierce rivals, regardless of the sport or event. On Friday night at Memorial Field, these two will...
View ArticleHalloween Home Decorating Winners Announced!
Here the are, your winners of the 2017 Halloween Decorating Contest. We also included some of the other addresses we judged so you can see all these amazing houses. Judging was based on Technical...
View ArticleBurger King Brings Its Creepy Clown Promotion to Burbank Tonight!
Tonight for Halloween, Burger King wants you to dress up as a clown and go to their restaurant located at 545 N Victory Boulevard (the one featured in Back to the Future 2) between 7p and closing. The...
View ArticleBurbank Girls’ Volleyball Team Drops Playoff Opener
Getting into a rhythm is something the Burbank High girls’ volleyball team never really achieved Tuesday night when the Bulldogs opened the CIF Southern Section Division 4 playoffs. Playing just a...
View ArticleBurroughs Boys Water Polo Knocks Off Beckman, 12-11
By Rick Assad With the game in the balance, senior utility David Arakelyan came to the rescue for the Burroughs High boys’ water polo team. David Arakelyan scored eight goals in a CIF Division III...
View ArticleHome Depot Helps Renovate Burbank Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
On Thursday, October 26th, volunteers from the Home Depot set out to give Burbank’s Veterans of Foreign Wars post a complete makeover. The facility, located at 1006 W. Magnolia Blvd., saw over 70...
View ArticleDonna Mills Opens “Driving Miss Daisy” At The Colony
Emmy Award-winning actress Donna Mills appears in Driving Miss Daisy for a limited engagement at The Colony Theatre in Burbank. Two preview performances will be held on Thursday and Friday, November 2...
View Article2017 BIG GAME Tale of the Tape- “Facts and Figures”
By Dick Dornan myBurbank Sports Emeritus BIG GAME “Facts and Figures” DATE: November 3, 2017 SITE: Memorial Field KICKOFF:...
View ArticleBurroughs Girls Volleyball Pass Initial CIF Playoff Test
By Rick Assad No postseason match is ever easy, but the Burroughs High girls’ volleyball team had a relatively smooth ride over visiting Norco on Tuesday night. The Indians took out the Cougars 25-18,...
View ArticleLate Night Fire Sends Six Firefighters to the Hospital
On October 31, 2017, at 11:50 pm, a full structure response was dispatched to Empire Avenue for a reported smoke inside a structure. Photo Courtesy Burbank Fire Department Engine 13 arrived on scene...
View ArticleBurroughs’ Chahal Takes League Cross Country Title
Over the last two years Burroughs High’s Emily Virtue and Crescenta Valley’s Colin FitzGerald have been the dominant female and male cross country runners in the Pacific League. But in a pair of...
View ArticleHomeless Man Arrested For Burbank Blvd. Overpass Fire
Photo by Ross A. Benson Not long after a brush fire spread along the embankment of the Burbank Boulevard Overpass yesterday evening, the Burbank Police Department arrested Edwin Matos, a 55-year-old...
View ArticleBurroughs Boys Water Polo Ends Campaign With 18-11 Loss To Dos Pueblos
By Rick Assad A decent opening half by the Burroughs High boys’ water polo team was followed by an unsteady second half as Dos Pueblos outscored the host Indians 10-4 and cruised to an 18-11 triumph in...
View ArticleFLASHBACK FRIDAY: Magnolia Park
Magnolia Park 1927 On the western end of Magnolia in Burbank is an area of homes and shops know as Magnolia Park. Earl White with Betty Gerry In the 1920’s, a project to build homes and a shopping...
View ArticleBurroughs Girls Volleyball Falls In CIF Second Round To Westridge
By Rick Assad Try as they might, the Burroughs High girls’ volleyball team came up just short in its CIF Southern Section Division III second-round playoff match against visiting Westridge on Thursday...
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