Eve Irvine, who became the first female police chief in Manhattan Beach in 2011, has been tapped to make history again as the first woman to lead the Torrance Police Department, the South Bay’s largest municipal law enforcement agency.

Torrance City Manager LeRoy Jackson said Irvine, one of four finalists for the vacant police chief job, had accepted an offer from the city. All that remains is a background check, which typically takes a couple of weeks but is expected to be largely a formality.

The University of California regents took disciplinary action against President Janet Napolitano on Thursday, publicly admonishing her for authorizing actions that led to her staff’s interference with a state auditor’s investigation last year.

The regents also ordered Napolitano to apologize for approving the scheme that resulted in her chief of staff and his deputy pressuring campuses to change their responses to a confidential state auditor survey to remove negative remarks and instead have them reflect positively on the president’s office.

SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California's governing board chastised UC President Janet Napolitano in a rare public rebuke Thursday and asked her to apologize for her office's interference in a state audit last year.

Napolitano issued a prompt apology, which did little to quiet criticism that has erupted over her office's meddling in what was supposed to be a confidential state auditor's survey of UC campuses.

As California begins finalizing its regulations for recreational marijuana ahead of a Jan. 1 change in state law, cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula are moving to blunt the effects of legal pot as much as possible with large fines, stringent permitting processes and strict regulations.

Veterans Day ceremonies took place throughout the South Bay on Saturday, Nov. 11, paying tribute to service members both past and present. City and regional dignitaries gathered at Veterans Memorials in Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach to honor local service members.

Before the ceremony in Manhattan Beach, World War II veteran David Cohen from the 42nd Rainbow Division shared a story with Lt. Col. Gilbert Rolden with the 578th Brigade Engineer Battalion in the U.S. Army National Guard.

In the wake of two mass shootings in just over a month, community leaders and gun violence advocates gathered at an interfaith discussion in Palos Verdes Estates this week to stress the need for gun safety education to combat such tragedies.

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown on Oct. 19 signed Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi’s Assembly Bill 651, which will strengthen the state attorney general’s oversight over the sale of nonprofit health care facilities, in order to protect and promote access to health care, particularly in immigrant communities.

AB 651 authorizes the attorney general to enforce any conditions imposed as part of the consent, with authority to seek specific performance, injunctive relief, and other equitable remedies and to recover attorney’s fees and costs.