Costa Mesa

The new design has more than doubled the club’s capacity from 125 children to 285, with an updated preschool space, a fully stocked area for young children and an expanded teen room complete with a kitchen and university-style study rooms.

A new California law requires middle and high schools in urban areas to delay start times to allow students to get more sleep.

A chain of crashes involving seven vehicles, including a California Highway Patrol cruiser responding to the initial wrong-way collision in Costa Mesa, left five people injured and led to two arrests early Sunday, according to authorities.

Children honked horns, clambered onto engines and learned the ins and outs of driving — at least the basics — during the latest Touch-a-Truck event at the Orange County Market Place in Costa Mesa.

It’s getting time to break out the blankets and light up the candles, because the holidays are just around the corner. And many people found this weekend’s two-day OC Home & Holiday Expo in Costa Mesa the place to stock up for the season.

Following the track of some neighboring cities, Costa Mesa is set to take up a new sidewalk vending ordinance at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.

With newly adopted methodology, Mesa Water District staff estimates the agency’s 100-year pipe replacement cost at $131 million — down from $200 million under the former standards.

News and events briefs from the Daily Pilot.

The Costa Mesa Sanitary District will celebrate its diamond anniversary Saturday with an open house at its headquarters at 290 Paularino Ave.

Renderings of the new $32-million theater complex planned for Costa Mesa’s Estancia High School show it sitting along the campus’s curving Placentia Avenue frontage — an anchor in a scenic area that abuts Fairview Park.

Construction workers found the bones Sept. 25, said OCTA spokesman Eric Carpenter. OCTA officials are prohibited by law from providing a location or description of a grave or sacred places.

If the state comes and tells your city it needs a few thousand more housing units, how do you respond? That’s the question that Costa Mesa, Newport Beach and Huntington Beach face, and to a lesser extent, Fountain Valley and Laguna Beach.