Anaheim CA

The annual Taste of Japan festival is returning to STC Anaheim GardenWalk from June 13–15, offering a full weekend of Japanese food, culture, music, and interactive fun for all ages. Now in its 6th year, the event has grown into a major cultural celebration, attracting over 100,000 attendees annually.

“Packing their stuff, it almost feels like they died.”. Stephanie Gonzalez became emotional Thursday talking about her parents, Gladys and Nelson — who are very much alive — but are thousands of miles away from their three daughters, son-in-law, and grandson. The couple, who lived in California for...

The Irvine Company plans to replace Oak Creek Golf Course with a 3,100-home village in Irvine. The development will include single-family homes, apartments, a school, and parks.

Orange County is now home to the nation’s first free surgery center dedicated to uninsured and low-income patients. Lestonnac Free Clinic (1215 E. Chapman Ave) held an opening ceremony for its in-house surgery center on May 1, unveiling a 4,000-square-foot facility designed to expand access to critical medical care.

A slim majority of Costa Mesa City Council members abruptly fired City Manager Lori Ann Farrell Harrison, who steered the city through the pandemic and its economic fallout. During a closed session vote on Tuesday, council members voted 4-2-1 to terminate Farrell Harrison’s employment with the city. Councilwomen...

Alexander Cueva, 28, pleaded no contest to felony animal cruelty for a brutal attack on a puppy in Long Beach that was caught on video.

A man suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot Thursday in Long Beach. Officers were dispatched to a hospital about 1 a.m. Thursday regarding a man who had walked into the hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the upper body, the Long Beach Police Department reported. The victim had been in the...

DOWNEY — The county Board of Supervisors is instructing the chief probation officer Wednesday to review a range of other options for moving youth detainees out of the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, including considering some youth for release and expediting the transfer of those who have already been...

LOS ANGELES — With the dismantling of the Department of Education, educators fear funding for special education students will be heavily affected. Studies show this group is already falling alarmingly behind across California. Aspire Firestone Academy in South Gate is blazing a new trail to change that, implementing...

Police Thursday are investigating a shooting that left a teenage boy wounded after a physical altercation near the Hellman Street neighborhood in Long Beach. Long Beach Police Department officers responded at 8:33 p.m. Tuesday to the area near Seventh Street and Cherry Avenue regarding a shots fired call. When they...