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A rare sea turtle discovered nesting on San Buenaventura State Beach in Ventura over the weekend marked a new first. Just weeks earlier, wildlife officials confirmed the first-ever recorded natural nesting for any sea turtle species on the U.S. West Coast. Both were olive ridley turtles . The turtles known for their heart-shaped shells normally stick to areas farther south in Mexico. But in September, the two turtles nested in Orange County. The first was spotted digging a nest and laying eggs n

There was a rare sighting off the coast of Southern California this week!   Whale watchers with Davey’s Locker & Newport Landing Whale Watching in Newport Beach were just five miles offshore on Tuesday when Captain Erica Page was the first to spot a large pod of approximately 70 short-finned pilot whales.  According to Davey’s […]

Three people were arrested and nearly 64 pounds of fentanyl were seized during a law enforcement operation in Riverside County last week, federal officials announced Wednesday. The arrests and seizure took place Oct. 28 in Murrieta, according to Homeland Security Investigations Los Angeles. HSI Riverside conducted the operation alongside U.S. Border Patrol and the Orange […]

The driver of a car was injured Wednesday morning after their vehicle plowed into a business in Orange County and then exploded into flames. The crash happened just before noon on the 24000 block of Alicia Parkway in Mission Viejo. Officials with the Orange County Fire Authority said the car crashed into a nail salon […]

Long Beach Animal Care Services announced Petey's adoption in a Facebook post Monday and said his new family liked his name enough to keep it. The City of Long Beach Animal Care Services said Petey's new family made repeated trips to see him over several weeks before completing the adoption. The post did not give Petey's age or breed.

Two people were arrested in connection with several package thefts in Irvine, police said Monday. More than $2,500 worth of items were stolen from an apartment mailroom on Miramonte last Wednesday, according to the Irvine Police Department. A photo the IPD shared on social media shows at least some items taken were clothing.

A 75-year-old woman is federally charged in the death of a puppy.

Bumble Bee Foods has filed a California WARN notice tied to layoffs at its Santa Fe Springs seafood plant. The filing matters to grocery shoppers and home cooks because it affects a longtime seafood processing site in Southern

A 66-year-old Long Beach woman who disappeared from her residential care facility without the medication she needed has been found safe. Cynthia Gerardi was reported missing after she was last seen leaving the facility on the 200 block of West Wardlow Road around 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 31, and police say she turned up unharmed two days later in Torrance.

There is a bowl of seafood stew at Bungalow Kitchen Long Beach that helps explain how this inaugural menu is Chef Eric Samaniego’s next culinary chapter. Guajillo, ancho, and puya chiles. Plenty of Mexican oregano. Shrimp stock and fish bones, plus the scrappy pieces left behind when a kitchen breaks down fish to make the stock. That broth—like a bouillabaisse gone Mexican—is then poured over, tableside, some shrimp, Prince Edward Island mussels, and sole. A seafood-laden nod to pozole.