Interest groups are plotting to change Proposition 13. They plan to place a citizens’ initiative on the November presidential election ballot next year that would require commercial property owned by all but the smallest businesses to be reassessed at market value every three years.
A 7-year-old boy from Fontana died in a two-vehicle collision in unincorporated Orange County on the 241 Toll Road that sent four other people to hospitals on Sunday, Aug. 25. The crash happened at about 1:36 p.m., Orange County Fire Authority Capt. John Muir said. A black sedan carrying a family of five and a…
A man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the parking lot of a Walmart in Irvine on Sunday, Aug. 25, police said. The shooting was reported at 16555 Von Karman Ave. at about 4:25 p.m., Irvine Police Lt. Matt McLaughlin said. A man was found dead near a vehicle in the store’s parking lot,…
Some Anaheim Hills residents attending church got a brief scare Sunday morning when a fire started in the building housing the church’s offices and classrooms. About 185 people were on the campus of Canyon Hills Presbyterian Church when smoke and flames were seen coming from the roof of an outbuilding near the church’s parking lot….
Deputy Angel Reinosa claimed he was shot while in the parking lot of the sheriff’s station. He later said he used a knife to cut holes in his shirt.
After seeing news about yet another round of mass shootings in the United States, Anu and Shivani Sharma were nervous about bringing their twin 9-year-old daughters from their home in Melbourne, Australia for a vacation in Orange County. The parents are originally from India, so they worried their skin color could make them targets. In…
The dialysis industry spent about $2.5 million in California on lobbying and campaign contributions in the first half of this year to avoid regulation, according to a California Healthline analysis.
Tech entrepreneur Steve Gordon, the new director of California’s DMV, says his know-how can help turn around the troubled agency.
1,500-acre wildfire in Northern California prompts some evacuations
RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA — One person was killed Saturday when a bicycle and motorcycle collided in the Rancho Santa Margarita area, authorities said. The crash was reported just after 6 p.m. in the 19900 block of Live Oak Canyon Road at Monastary Road, the California Highway Patrol said. The Orange County coroner’s office was called…
