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Orangethorpe Elementary School celebrated Earth Day with its annual “Orcafest,” a dynamic, student-led event focused on conservation and environmental stewardship. Held on April 22 in the school’s outdoor “Sherwood Forest” learning space, Orcafest brought together families of students in transitional kindergarten through sixth grade to explore a variety of student-created projects and activities.

Working Wardrobes, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people overcome barriers to meaningful employment and achieve lasting economic stability, hosted its inaugural Power Within Luncheon at the Balboa Bay Club in Newport Beach on March 27, 2026. The inspiring event celebrated the courage, community, and extraordinary power of women...

Local secrets usually feel smaller than the hype around them. Then a place like this comes along and makes that label feel completely deserved. Somewhere in California, there is a buffet people talk about a little more quietly, partly because they know how rare it is to find one that leaves this kind of impression.

SDG&E today rolled out a first-cut 145-mile corridor for the Golden Pacific Powerlink, a proposed 500-kilovolt transmission line that would run from the Imperial Valley to the San Diego-Orange County border and cross stretches of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The concept calls for towers as tall as a 15- to 20-story building and is already drawing sharp...

MomTok is heading west. Hulu announced that The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, a spinoff of its hit reality series originally located in Utah, at the streamer's Get Real event in April 2026. The confirmed cast includes McCall Dapron, Aspyn Ovard, Avery Woods, Bobbi Althoff, Salomé Andrea, Ashleigh Pease, Madison Bontempo and Chandler […]

A Las Vegas man is headed to state prison for 18 years after an Orange County jury found him guilty of human trafficking and a stack of weapons and pandering felonies for exploiting a 17-year-old girl in Anaheim. Prosecutors said he kept control of the teen during commercial sex through violence and a gun, and jurors signed off on enhancements for his...

Cody stood by the roadside, trembling and disoriented, with no way to make sense of what had just happened. He kept staring after the car as it got farther away, growing smaller and smaller until it was gone. It is easy to picture the questions that must have filled that...

James Olweny (3) and the Paloma Valley Wildcats will play at Mission Viejo on Tuesday. (Photo by Action Captures Media) Two local boys volleyball teams will be at home and two others are on the road Tuesday when the CIF Southern Section playoffs begin. In brackets announced on Friday, Liberty...

Bluewater Grill in Newport Beach is celebrating 30 years in 2026, and what better way to mark the milestone than to release a cookbook by Bluewater Grill co-founders Jimmy Ulcickas and Richard Staunton. “We’ve been fortunate to be able to share our love for fish and the sea with our...

At a school with the rich athletic tradition of Santa Ana Mater Dei, it is rare to be the first to achieve anything, but Matteo Huarte made history Saturday by becoming the Monarchs’ only CIF singles champion at the Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament. After losing in straight sets to...