818 Roundup: IKEA breaks ground on new Burbank store; Joint police operation yields 24 arrests

Good morning, 818! Today is Wednesday, September 2, 2015. Temperatures for today are forecasted to reach a high of 80 and a low of 66, according to the National Weather Service.

Here are your local headlines:

• Officials from Burbank were on hand as IKEA held a groundbreaking ceremony on the site of what officials said will be the Swedish retailer’s largest store in the United States.

• Police arrested 24 people Friday night during a crime-suppression operation conducted in southeast Glendale that involved the Burbank Police Department, county probation officers and the U.S. Department of Justice, authorities said.

• A La Cañada Flintridge resident was killed Thursday night when the car he was driving plummeted down a 500-foot embankment off Malibu Canyon Road, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office.

• Overall, the number of students attending Glendale schools declined slightly this year compared to last year, but a growing number of students are attending elementary schools, according to district data.

• Burbank has installed eight new electric vehicle charging stations to city curbs, though not everyone is happy about it.

• New students at Glendale Community College got some advice from their teachers, as well as some direction from fellow students on the first day of the fall semester.

• Foothill Municipal Water District is inviting local residents interested in learning more about California-friendly landscaping and the use of rain-storage barrels to an event set for Sunday, Sept. 13 at Descanso Gardens.

• After a thunderstorm stalled it last month, the 22nd annual Glendale Cruise Night rolled into town with hundreds of classic cars for a late-summer crowd.

• Police arrested two men Friday suspected in at least a dozen car burglaries and thefts over the last month-and-a-half in Burbank’s hillside.