In the past three years, Irvine went from treating its parks and nature areas with more than 50 pounds and about 60 gallons of synthetic weed and pest killers annually, all the way down to zero. The city now uses organic products with ingredients such as corn gluten meal and oil from soybeans, lemongrass or…
With officials now looking into every way possible to open up Hollister Ranch, many have asked: How exactly did 8.5 miles of California’s most pristine coastline remain so private, and with so little scrutiny, for four decades? The answer lies in a special section of the Coastal Act.
Weight Watchers President and Chief Executive Officer Mindy Grossman speaks at a global employee event in New York. Weight Watchers is trimming its name to just two letters: WW. The company says it is renaming itself to focus more on overall wellness and not just dieting. (Amy Sussman/AP Images for Weight Watchers, File) IHOP’s Sunset…
Robert Bly, 15-year-old Eagle Rock High School youth, returned after a three-week hitchhiking, hunting and fishing trip on which he was accompanied by his 7-year-old bull terrier, Don.
Q. While driving on the eastbound 91 Freeway in Anaheim Hills, a refrigerated tractor trailer was leaking water from the back door – it was like a waterfall, very heavy. I was debating whether to call 911; it was not really an emergency. Then a few miles ahead there was an empty dump truck, which did not…
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added just 134,000 jobs in September, the fewest in a year, though the figure was likely lowered by Hurricane Florence, while the unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent, the lowest level since 1969. Hurricane Florence struck North and South Carolina in the middle of September and closed thousands…
SANTA ANA — A 31-year-old Costa Mesa man died early Friday, Oct. 5, after the car he was driving crashed into a guard rail on the southbound 55 Freeway. At about 1:20 a.m. officers found the car with heavy damage and debris in the southbound lanes near MacArthur Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol….
By MARK LEWIS and JIM HEINTZ OSLO, Norway — The Nobel Peace Prize on Friday was awarded to a Congolese doctor and an Iraqi woman who was held captive by the Islamic State group for their work to highlight and eliminate the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war. Dr. Denis Mukwege and…
By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON — A deeply divided Senate pushed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination past a key procedural hurdle Friday, setting up a likely final showdown this weekend in a battle that’s seen claims of long-ago sexual assault by the nominee threaten President Donald Trump’s effort to tip the court rightward…
Former Vice President Joe Biden accused President Trump’s Republican allies in Congress of choosing “party over country” as he campaigned in Orange County for Democrats running for the U.S. House. “The truth itself is being thrown aside in favor of a cultish devotion to the whims of one man,” Biden…
