Costa Mesa

Costa Mesa is hoping more than $1 million in state grants will round out the funding needed to renovate the playground at Lions Park.

Political briefs from the Daily Pilot.

Homeless shelters currently are allowed in Costa Mesa only in “planned development industrial” zones. A code amendment recommended by the Planning Commission would also allow them in “industrial park” zones, where the city bought its $6.9-million shelter site.

Audi Fletcher Jones can rev up its plans to build a new automotive sales and service center on the former Ganahl Lumber site in Costa Mesa, the city Planning Commission decided Monday.

Nsight Psychology & Addiction has operated out of the six-unit compound at 2641 Santa Ana Ave. for about four years.

Nearly 1.4 million people visited the Orange County Fair this year — not quite a record, but enough people to eat more than three tons of sourdough bread at Ten Pound Buns.

Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, has taken on a mission to eradicate a global crisis that has plagued humanity for thousands of years.

(Third in a series of columns previewing the upcoming theater seasons) Costa Mesa is known as the City of the Arts, and for good reason.

The newlyweds, winners of the fair’s wedding giveaway, said their family is more traditional than they, but that their friends agree this is fitting.

Though some derby veterans came out to battle Friday night, newcomers stole the show as the police and fire chiefs’ Motorhome Madness demolition derby raised $30,000 for charities.

Dave Min, a Democrat from Irvine who is running in the 2020 election for the 37th District seat currently held by John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa), says ‘the tragic cycle of gun violence’ around the country has to end.

It’s called the Reisetomate, and it’s arguably the tomato with the most character.