Category: Orange County News

Harvard Safety Improvements

Thursday, September 11, 2025 The City of Irvine, in partnership with the City of Tustin, is leading the Harvard Safety Improvements Project to enhance safety, accessibility, and mobility along Harvard Avenue between Irvine Center Drive and Walnut Avenue. The project will improve traffic circulation and expand transportation options for cyclists Read More

It’s a Play Date Founder Is on This Week’s Episode of The Zest

Hannah Akamine is the founder of It’s a Play Date, an empowering community where women come together to build real friendships through sports and community events such as Pilates, hiking, basketball, and more. In this week’s episode, she shares the sports she first fell in love with, moving to Orange Read More

Driver high on meth gets up to 30 years in prison for killing a boy in Costa Mesa

Richard David Lavalle, a 64-year-old Long Beach man, who killed Noel Bascon, a 12-year-old boy in a DUI collision in Costa Mesa a was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 5, to 30 years to life in prison. Lavalle was convicted of second-degree murder by an Orange County Superior Court jury earlier Read More

The SAPD is searching for a transient who stole $15K worth of copper wire from a building

Police detectives are asking for the public’s help in locating a homeless man wanted for commercial theft, Jason Ray Sentz, age 43, according to the SAPD. Sentz is wanted for a commercial robbery that occurred at 413 W. 17th St., where he forced entry into a commercial building and stole Read More

An e-bike rider was critically injured after a vehicle struck him, in Orange

The Orange Police Department is investigating a tragic collision that resulted in critical injuries to a 19-year-old man after a vehicle struck his electric bicycle on September 9, 2025, at approximately 8:43 pm. The collision occurred near the intersection of Lewis Street and El Prado Avenue. The e-bike rider, who Read More

Visit Newport Beach Launches Third Iteration of Signature Fall Campaign: Newport Beach Vacation Club

They were the first to create a post-Super Bowl drone show last February promoting Newport Beach, they’ve won dozens of awards for their creative campaigns, and they even sponsored a float in the January 1, 2024, Rose Parade that won the Extraordinaire Award. Now, the creative minds at Visit Newport Read More

Newport Beach Assemblymember Diane Dixon Recognizes September as Service Clubs Month

Assemblymember Diane Dixon (R-Newport Beach) introduced HR 59 which honors the month of September as Service Clubs Month. “Service clubs create space for people to engage in their communities and work with members towards shared goals,” said Assemblymember Dixon, “They are an integral part of communities.” Service clubs are voluntary, Read More

Several juveniles were shot in Santa Ana on Monday, one fatally

Santa Ana Police Detectives are investigating a homicide involving a 13-year-old boy who was shot and killed, and three other juveniles who were wounded. On Monday, September 8, 2025, at approximately 8:19 p.m., Santa Ana Police Communications received multiple reports of a shooting in the area of 400 S. Susan Read More

Orange County activists to rally at the Nixon Library: “ICE OUT OF OC!”

In a powerful show of grassroots resistance, hundreds of activists from across Orange County and Southern California are expected to gather tomorrow morning at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda, on Wednesday, Sep. 10, at 8:30 a.m. The protest rally, organized by the Visibility Brigade and Read More