Newport Beach’s new short-term rental monitor has helped the city close the door on nearly 80 unpermitted vacation rental homes in the past month, with dozens more under review, the city says. Based on about five weeks of data from Host Compliance, a company that combs 22 online platforms such...
Former UC Irvine All-American Keston Hiura has picked up where he left off in his transition from college to professional baseball. Hiura, the No. 9 overall pick of the Milwaukee Brewers earlier this month, was seven for 12 through Tuesday in his first three games with the Brewers’ rookie Arizona...
The Newport Beach City Council approved three-year contracts Tuesday with six companies to help the city’s building division with inspections and plan reviews. The consultants — which will provide on-call plan review and help city staff with inspections, permit issuance and geotechnical review...
More than 160 Southern California Edison customers in Huntington Beach remained without power late Tuesday afternoon after a Mylar balloon got tangled in a power line, causing a transformer to explode, officials said. Nearly 2,800 Edison customers in the area of Melbourne Drive, Windemeir Lane,...
Laguna Beach recognized contributions of greeters Sunday during the second International Greeter Day. More than 100 people stopped to say hello and learn about greeters such as Michael Minutoli, the man who waves to motorists and passersby on the corner of Brooks Street and South Coast Highway,...
Sometimes the most important food experiences are the simplest ones — a bowl of fried baby anchovies, an exquisitely smoked piece of meat, a succulent cactus sorbet.
On Tuesday morning, I was supposed to be at the Newport Beach Tennis Club at 9:45 for a 10 a.m. ladies’ duplicate bridge game with my Encore friends. When I started up my car, the dashboard read-out said, “Replace key battery.” Oh, dear. I’ve never had a keyless ignition before, and I didn’t know...
It is too bad that the Newport-Mesa school district doesn’t teach students to read. That is the only conclusion one can come to when there are at least six signs saying, “No Jumping No Diving,” off the Lido Island Bridge. Aside from the fact that police have more important things to do than chase...
Our city’s commercial-friendly groupthink has made it official: Welcome to Laguna Beach, the Disneyland of O.C. beach communities, whether residents like it or not. Take that Huntington and Newport. Yes, we can. We can “out-gaudy” you, we can better deface and clutter our sidewalks, we can monetize...
Many of my neighbors and I in the Heights are in opposition to the construction of a six-lane “freeway” along what is fondly referred to as Mariner's Mile. To turn several established neighborhoods upside down to construct a six-lane highway for such a short stretch of land appears to us, in Newport...
I often speak of the nexus between public policies that affect real estate practitioners and those that affect everyone else. Perhaps there is no better example of this nexus than our current affordable housing crisis. While Realtors have trouble finding listings, other people have trouble finding...
Laguna Beach police arrested a Laguna Beach man on suspicion of stalking, criminal threats and burglary, authorities said. Gregory Murray, 28, was arrested last week at his residence, according to a news release, and was booked into Orange County Jail with bail set at $50,000. He was released Monday...
A Huntington Beach hazardous-materials team treated a person Friday who was injured while trying to clear a clogged drain. Fire Department officials received a call around 7:30 a.m. of a hazardous-materials incident in the 8200 block of Noelle Drive, according to a news release. They treated a...
A Newport Beach man who orchestrated a drug operation that produced “spice,” or synthetic marijuana, was sentenced Thursday to 120 months in federal prison, authorities said. Sean Libbert, 41, orchestrated a “wide-reaching conspiracy” that smuggled, manufactured and distributed millions of dollars...
Two out-of-state men were charged Thursday with pimping out of a Costa Mesa motel, authorities said. Tyshawn Johnson, 30, of Buffalo, N.Y., and Marco Marcellus Mowry, 34, of Honolulu are facing felony counts of pimping and pandering, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office. If...