Sara Cardine covers the city of Costa Mesa for the Daily Pilot. She comes from the La Cañada Valley Sun, where she spent six years as the news reporter covering La Cañada Flintridge and recently received a first-place Public Service Journalism award from the California News Publishers Assn. She’s also worked at the Pasadena Weekly, Stockton Record and Lodi-News Sentinel, which instilled in her a love for community news. (714) 966-4627
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NMUSD officials unanimously approved tentative agreements with the district’s two employeee unions, offering 7% raises and benefit enhancements to all employees, a move that will cost $25.4 million.
Sept. 19, 2024
Kerciu, who spoke truth to power in the Civil Rights-era south and was famously jailed for his provacative paintings, died on Aug. 25 at age 93. A celebration of life at the Laguna Art Museum is planned for Sept. 28.
Sept. 19, 2024
HBPD is investigating an early Sunday morning homicide near the intersection of Olive Avenue and Main Street, where a 29-year-old Anaheim man was discovered with significant injuries that resulted in his death.
Sept. 16, 2024
A CHP spokesman said officers received calls Sunday night of an SUV driving north in the southbound lanes of the Corona del Mar Freeway near MacArthur Boulevard. Minutes later, a head-on collision resulted in a fire and killed one driver, while injuring a second.
Sept. 16, 2024
Rancho Santiago CCD officials Monday agreed to keep a $30-million employee health policy with a risk pool operator that held $7 million of public money off the books. Meanwhile, top officials won’t say what happened and who knew what.
Sept. 14, 2024
Recommendations for improving compensation, recruitment and retention within CMPD’s bureau of 911 operators and public safety dispatchers is being pitched for council consideration Tuesday, to the tune of $589,650 beyond department’s nearly $62 million budget for 2024-25.
Sept. 13, 2024
This Saturday, ARTventure opens with a juried exhibition of regional art at the Norma Hertzog Community Center and a community celebration at Lions Park with opportunities to enjoy ceramics, painting, music, dance and more, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sept. 12, 2024
Costa Mesa police called to an apartment Sunday found the body of Denise Avila, who’d been stabbed to death. During the investigation, the victim’s partner returned to the scene.
Sept. 9, 2024
As stakeholders of the Orange County community college district probe a decades-long relationship with the Alliance of Schools for Cooperative Insurance Programs, the names of two now-retired administrators keep popping up.
Sept. 7, 2024
Kept off the books, and outside the awareness of elected officials, a risk management fund held for Rancho Santiago CCD by a risk pool operator quietly accrued millions — until people started asking about it.
Sept. 7, 2024