There aren’t many businesses that claim growth of 250 percent in two years, but Green Solar Technologies can. The North Hollywood company accomplished it largely by going where other solar companies have failed to tread — or have treaded lightly. Edward Harner, Green Solar’s chief operating officer, explains it this way: Where opportunity exists “Our…
Crews remove dead brush on Thursday, April 18, 2019 after an illegal trail was cut in the Buck Gully Reserve in Newport Beach, CA. The trail was discovered Sunday, April 14, 2019. The trail in the photo is the illegal trail. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) A tree stump is all that’s left…
At least one person died in a crash on the Ortega Highway Monday morning, causing traffic backup on the major thoroughfare between Orange and Riverside counties. The crash between two vehicles was reported at 5:39 a.m. on the highway near Caspers Wilderness Park, according to the California Highway Patrol. Details about what led to the…
PLAYA DEL REY — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is scheduled to mark Earth Day by touring the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant in Playa Del Rey Monday with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. The visit is part of Booker’s “Justice for All Tour,” in which the candidate running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination speaks…
The ocean can draw you in — a place where passion and pastime meet just beyond the shore in a liquid playground. But as fun as the sea can be, it can be dangerous, even deadly. Among the dozens of films that will be showcased at the 20th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, which opens…
A man came home to his Newport Beach apartment Sunday night just before 9:30 p.m. and found his roommate and a woman he didn’t know dead, police spokeswoman Heather Rangel said. He called police who responded to the complex, at 15th Street and Irvine Avenue. Rangel did not have details about how the two died…
A strong earthquake in the north Philippines on Monday trapped some people in a collapsed building, damaged an airport terminal and knocked out power in at least one province, officials said. Gov. Lilia Pineda of Pampanga province, north of Manila, told DZMM radio that about 20 people were rescued,…
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan officials failed to heed warnings from intelligence agencies about the threat of an attack by a domestic radical Muslim group that officials blame for Easter Sunday bombings which killed more than 200 people, the country’s health minister said Monday. The coordinated bombings that…
Babies and toddlers go through a lot of diapers. Maybe a dozen a day, depending on age and other circumstances. Typically, for three years. For households already scrambling to pay for food and rent, buying disposable diapers — at an average retail cost of 20 cents a diaper — can be a prohibitive expense leaving…
A shallow magnitude-3.4 earthquake was reported Monday morning six miles from Fig Orchard, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 1:12 a.m. PDT at a depth of 1.9 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 18 miles from Tehachapi, 20 miles from Arvin and 22…
