13+ hour, 45+ min ago   (686+ words) Humid temperatures didn’t keep people away from the second annual Old Towne Burger Fest in Orange. The pop-up burger competition, held Saturday, Sept. 12, drew scores of burger aficionados to Chapman Crafted, where five local vendors battled for bragging rights — and…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (813+ words) A pastor kicked off a recent campaign stop for Michael Whatley, the Republican nominee for Senate, with a prayer that asked God to bestow “integrity and honesty” upon the event and to right wrongs “hammered down on the conservative movement....

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (759+ words) It was a moment that made the surf world collectively stop, a near drowning at one of the world’s heaviest waves. The Billabong Pipe Masters had just wrapped up, 11-time world champion Kelly Slater on the stage accepting his Triple…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (359+ words) Three months after Huntington Beach updated its housing element in response to mounting fines, the state is pushing for additional penalties based on regulators’ conclusion that the city’s plan is still out of compliance. In May, Orange County Superior Court…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (254+ words) Scuffed and dirty, it was unmistakably a golf ball. And in that moment, it represented an incomprehensible loss that would take years, if ever, to process. A person whose name I do not remember, most likely never knew, told me…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (641+ words) On Sept. 11, 2001, Jerrold Paskins, a 57-year-old insurance executive from Anaheim Hills, was in the north tower of the World Trade Center when, at 8:46 a.m., American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the 93rd floor. Two-year-old Christine Lee Hanson was with her parents aboard Flight…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (812+ words) California bosses like to complain that the Golden State is a very difficult place to operate. My trusty spreadsheet analyzed a LendingTree study that examined government statistics on the longevity of establishments to identify which individual businesses lasted 10 years or…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (627+ words) Taco Bell is leaving its longtime home at 1 Glen Bell Way in Irvine, relocating in spring 2028 to a larger campus in the city. News of the move was first reported by the Orange County Business Journal. Taco Bell and sister…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1125+ words) The ending of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” episode that aired Thursday, Sept. 10 isn’t anything we haven’t seen before. How many times, after all, have we seen Shannon Storms Beador or Tamra Judge melt down, declare themselves done with…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (571+ words) A 22-year-old woman was convicted Thursday of a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a man who was celebrating his wedding anniversary in Laguna Beach. Sysillia Kianna Morrison Montes De Oca was convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, hit-and-run with permanent and…...