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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On Discovery Day Thursday, the last before the July 14 start of the O.C. Fair, volunteers shared their love of nature with children and their parents.
Funded largely by Irvine Co. Chairman Donald Bren, the Space Solar Power Project is testing the feasibility of transmitting electricity converted from sunlight anywhere on the planet.
An online campaign looking for the best canines employed by first responders is offering $15,000. Seal Beach’s one-dog K-9 unit is in the race, and voting ends Monday.
The first class of Orange Coast College in 1947 comprised 500 students. Today, more than 1.5 million students have enrolled, including a local mom who graduated Friday alongside her son.
City laws say it is illegal to keep bees outside of educational or scientific settings, but talk about drafting a law to legalize the practice is taking wing.
Carmen Sanchez Rodriguez, 24, of Tustin, entered a construction zone on a closed portion of the 405 Freeway shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday, and crashed into a work truck.
Ivan Chernov Dimov, 58, is still in custody after the November 2016 bludgeoning death of 53-year-old Kyle Avila near a Vanguard Way apartment complex.
The free event takes place in Costa Mesa Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and includes skills courses for pedal and e-bikes, free helmets, group rides and bikes to be raffled off.
Seal Beach work crews have built an emergency sand berm to hold back southern swells that arrived Wednesday night during high tide, flooding areas near the city’s pier.
Fountain Valley police made a pitstop at a local Arco gas station Thursday as part of a month-long “Fuel the Flame” rally benefiting the Southern California Special Olympics.