Category: Orange County News

NB Police Department Cites 206 Vehicles During Joint Enforcement Operation for Loud Exhausts and Street Racing

NB Police Department along with Police Departments from other coastal cities underwent special training to address loud or modified vehicle exhausts and other illegal modifications to vehicles. In continuing with efforts to address increasing instances of street racing and the number of vehicles with loud/modified vehicle exhaust, the Newport Beach Read More

Laguna Beach Filmmaker Releases 50th Anniversary Edition of Classic Surf Film ‘Five Summer Stories’

Quicksilver co-founder Bob McKnight, former Surfing Magazine senior editor Sam George, filmmaker Greg MacGillivray at the premiere of the 50th anniversary screening of “Five Summer Stories” at the New Port Theater in Corona del Mar. Before Laguna Beach resident Greg MacGillivray was nominated for Academy Awards for his IMAX films Read More

Steel, U.S. Army Corps, local officials share update on Sand Replenishment Project

Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mayors of Orange County’s coastline cities, and local officials from the Orange County Board of Supervisors joined Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA) to share an update on the Surfside-Sunset & Newport Beach Replenishment Project, and to highlight the funding secured earlier this Read More

FTA awards OCTA $2.5 million toward zero-emission paratransit buses

More zero-emission buses are headed to local streets thanks to a federal grant awarded to the Orange County Transportation Authority for battery-electric paratransit buses. The Federal Transit Administration announced Tuesday that OCTA will receive $2.5 million in federal funding toward the purchase of 10 battery-electric buses that will replace 10 Read More

American Lung Association seeks grant applications from innovative researchers throughout California

The American Lung Association in California announced the start of its 2023-2024 research awards and grants cycle. The organization is now accepting research grant applications from researchers here in California and across the nation with the potential to improve prevention, detection and treatment options for all lung diseases including lung Read More