Maria Tanori sits quietly on the couch, ready to answer questions. Apinya Imon bounces up and down on the same couch, barely able to contain her excitement. Maria and Apinya are ASK ambassadors, the community liaisons for this weekend’s Dew Tour skateboarding contests in Long Beach. The Dew Tour is the dominant showcase for pro…
The Irvine Co. has followed through on plans to transfer 29 acres it owns on the south shore of Irvine Lake to the county of Orange, but a dispute over what kinds of recreation to allow and who should profit from it must be resolved before the lake can reopen to the public. The 750-acre,…
LAGUNA WOODS — The votes are in — glyphosate will be a chemical of the past for Laguna Woods Village. In alignment with a decision made last month in a landscape committee meeting, the United Mutual board on Tuesday, June 11, approved an unbudgeted expense of $15,000 for the purchase of alternative herbicide products, voting…
Residents in Fullerton pay more for their water over the next four years, as the city upgrades its aging infrastructure. “Digging those trenches is expensive. It’s not easy,” Mayor Jesus Silva said as the City Council approved the rate increases – Councilman Bruce Whitaker opposed. “We need to move forward. We need to get our…
School’s out for summer for the most part. That means many kids are scrambling to have as much fun as possible and many parents are hustling to move into a new home before school is back in session. Buying a home is tricky for anybody, especially if it’s your first one, but parents have a…
A man suspected of shooting an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in the head after killing a person a few miles away Monday was arrested Tuesday after investigators received a tip from his father, authorities say. But there are still many unanswered questions about the seemingly random…
Homebuying in what we’ll call the “Beach Blvd. Corridor” — in and around Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove and Westminster — fell 16% in what was Orange County slowest nine months of sales since 2012. For nine consecutive months through April, CoreLogic housing stats show countywide sales failing to top the year-ago period. We…
University of California President Janet Napolitano vowed to get to the bottom of how UCLA handled allegations of sexual misconduct by a university gynecologist, saying “there were lessons learned” in the case. “What UCLA is doing is making sure… those kinds of issues don’t happen again,” she…
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON — Nursing facilities have failed to report thousands of serious cases of potential neglect and abuse of seniors on Medicare even though it’s a federal requirement for them to do so, according to a watchdog report released Wednesday that calls for a new focus on protecting frail patients. Auditors with the…
On a fog-steeped morning at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, a rocket from Hawthorne-based SpaceX powered its way out of the mist and into space early Wednesday. The Falcon 9 rocket recorded an on-time launch at 7:17 a.m., rising above a bank of fog and low clouds and into the skies. After separating from…
