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November 13, 2025

Orange County boys basketball preview: Talented Santa Margarita at No. 1

The Orange County boys basketball preview for the 2025-26 season that officially begins Monday, Nov. 17. The Eagles are ready to soar. Santa Margarita’s boys basketball team is No. 1 in the Orange County preseason...

November 14, 2025

Plans for Gateway Village and preserve approved by Irvine City Council

Irvine leaders are finalizing plans for creating a new nature preserve and for the housing project that is helping make it possible. This week, the City Council unanimously approved blueprints for the 81-acre Gateway Village...

September 15, 2025

Orange County football Top 25: Mater Dei falls, Mission Viejo rises to No. 1

ORANGE COUNTY FOOTBALL TOP 25 POLL Notable this week: For the first time in a long time, Mater Dei is not No. 1 in the Orange County football poll. Mission Viejo is now in that...

September 15, 2025

Status Update: Trader Joe’s confirms new Costa Mesa location

Trader Joe’s has updated its “coming soon” location list to include the street address for Costa Mesa’s next store. (Image courtesy of Trader Joe’s website) If anyone in Costa Mesa still had any doubts, it’s...

September 12, 2025

Irvine will stay with the Orange County Power Authority

The Irvine City Council voted this week to rescind its notice of intent to withdraw from the Orange County Power Authority, reversing a decision made last year that threatened to pull the plug on the...

September 12, 2025

Irvine football too strong in all areas against Laguna Hills

Irvine wide receiver Smith Spivey carries the ball after making a catch during a nonleague game against Laguna Hills on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer) Laguna Hills running back Khryztopher...

September 11, 2025

Fryer: A look at the early surprises, standouts in Orange County football

The Orange County football season is young. Enough games have been played, though, to provide plenty of information about trends in county football … Two teams that looked good coming into the season but are...

September 11, 2025

Ducks and Kings get a prospects preview this weekend

The NHL is so back in Southern California. Less than a week from the Sept. 18 start of training camp for the Kings and Ducks, the organizations’ youngest members will be in action this weekend...

September 11, 2025

‘They did good, they did right’: Orange County remembers those lost to Sept. 11 terrorist attacks

As the moment drew near when the first plane slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center 24 years ago, Orange County Fire Authority Chief Brian Fennessy recounted just a few of the...

September 9, 2025

Orange County passes proposal for small changes to league structures

SANTA ANA – Orange County’s releaguing meeting Tuesday concluded with the passage of the most conservative proposal of the 16 that were presented. The only change made from the current school year’s league structures was...