A slew of playing fields and basketball courts constructed at the Orange County Great Park recently opened to the public, as Irvine continues its development of one of the largest multi-sport complexes in the country. The recent addition of synthetic soccer and lacrosse fields, four basketball courts, natural turf that can accommodate four more soccer…
Neveah May, 8, of Calimesa, takes a leap into Mill Creek to beat the triple digit heat on Friday, July 6, 2018, in the San Bernardino National Forest. (Photo by Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Leonardo Gonzalez of Anaheim cools off in the splash pad at Pioneer Park in Anaheim, CA on Friday, July 6, 2018….
A fast-moving brush fire in the San Bernardino Mountains has forced authorities to issue a mandatory evacuation order for Forest Falls. The order, which covers the entire Forest Falls Valley community, went into effect shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Friday, with authorities asking all residents to immediately leave the area. An evacuation center has been…
Tustin is a diverse city, where almost 40 percent of residents are Latino and voters who register as Democrats edge out Republican voters. Thus, the city has reacted with caution to the anti-sanctuary movement that has swept Orange County, starting with the Los Alamitos City Council vote in March to “opt out” of SB-54. The…
Flowers are laid at the feet of the statue of Ben Carlson, a Newport Beach lifeguard who died four years ago in big surf, on Friday, July 6, 2018 in Newport Beach. Carlson is the only lifeguard in the US who has died in the line of duty. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG)…
A surfer rides a wave just after sunrise at The Wedge in Newport Beach early Friday morning, July 6, 2018. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) A body boarder gets some air off a large wave at The Wedge in Newport Beach early Friday morning, July 6, 2018. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County…
Family members, friends and co-workers gathered Thursday evening in Claremont to remember Mark Manlapaz, a Cal Poly Pomona campus security officer and Claremont park ranger who was killed last week in an attack at the university. Mark Manlapaz was a Claremont Park Ranger for three years and a sixteen year veteran of the Cal Poly Pomona Campus…
One man was killed and a juvenile was wounded Thursday, July 5, in a shooting at a park in La Habra. La Habra police responded to a report of shots fired near El Centro Lions Park about 2:50 p.m., a news release said. They found the victims, including the man in his 30s, in a…
A 39-year-old Irvine man was charged Thursday with setting several fires in Irvine this week. Imran Saaduddin Ahmad was charged with three counts of arson of an inhabited structure and single counts each of arson of a forest and use of a destructive device with the intent to injure, all felonies. He also faces sentencing…
Senior centers and public libraries may not be the first places that come to mind when you want to chill out. But in the kind of excessive heat expected this weekend, you can’t get much cooler. Those facilities make up the bulk of public cooling centers available for escaping temperatures predicted to hit triple digits….
