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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Figures released Tuesday night indicate Andrea McElroy leads the race in NMUSD’s Trustee Area 5 with 2,581 ballots, or 54.27% of the vote, over challenger Kirstin Walsh’s 2,175 votes. But the counting continues.
With assistance from CMPD’s Special Investigations Unit, officers Saturday located and detained 19-year-old Oscar Saldivar of Huntington Beach, after having obtained search warrants in the neighboring city.
Coming from a family of academic record holders, San Juan Capistrano resident Tycho Elling, 14, has earned his bachelor’s degree from UC Irvine and plans to attend USC in the fall to earn a doctorate.
After some last-minute reconfiguration, Costa Mesa officials passed a budget that spares using reserves and funds needed capital projects, but stalls some IT infrastructure upgrades.
A group of 51 graduates from the Costa Mesa college prep campus gathered in a May 29 ceremony to reflect on their time together, celebrate achievements and look with excitement toward what’s next.
Police found a 20-year-old Huntington Beach woman suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in a residential area of Costa Mesa.
Four male suspects from Riverside, including one juvenile, were arrested Sunday night after a man was shot during an altercation at Oceanfront and 23rd Street in Newport Beach.
Memorial Day weekend marked one year since a DUI driver killed 14-year-old Rosenda Smiley in a Newport Beach crosswalk. Now, her family is lobbying for safer streets and stricter penalties for drunk drivers.
Eighteen graduates Wednesday celebrated completion of the Seamless Transition Enrichment Program, which provides learning as well as job and life skills for adults with developmental disabilities through age 22.
Replacing HIVE, an underused creative office park, and the Los Angeles Chargers’ former practice field, Hive Live will bring needed housing, and affordable units, to Costa Mesa north of the 405 Freeway.