A heat advisory warning for Orange County was issued Monday evening by the National Weather Service. It will be in effect from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday in response to […]
Hot weather warning issued for OC
Rain is washing out the drought (we hope)
Can we officially say that the drought is finally over? Winter has returned with a wet vengeance this week in West Orange County. Storms moving across the southern California coast are dropping […]
Jobless rate inches down to 3.2%
Unemployment in Orange County dropped slightly in July, according to a report issued Friday by the state Employment Development Department. The rate dropped from 3.3 percent in June to 3.2 percent last […]
June jobless rate rose to 3.3 percent
Unemployment rose sharply in Orange County in June, jumping from 2.6 percent in May to 3.3 percent for the following month. According to the state Employment Development Department, the biggest part of […]
Budget, joblessness and festival traffic
The Westminster City Council on Wednesday approved the 2018-19 budget on a 5-0 vote. The budget for 2018-19 will be balanced with no need to draw on reserves. There’s a projected fund […]
Jobless rate drops to 2.6% for April
Unemployment in Orange County continues to drop as the jobless rate fell to 2.6 percent in April, compared to 2.8 percent in March. According to the state Employment Development Department, that meant […]
Joblessness declines to 2.8% in OC
The unemployment rate for Orange County continued its plunge in March, according to state Employment Development Department. On Friday the EDD reported that joblessness in the county fell from 3.1 percent in […]
Supervisors reject tent cities and AB54
A plan to house some homeless people in tent cities in Huntington Beach, Irvine and Laguna Niguel was rejected by the Orange County Board of Supervisors on a 4-0 vote Tuesday morning. […]
HB may fight “sanctuary state” law
In the wake of last week’s action by the City of Los Alamitos to fight California’s status as a “sanctuary state” which limits its cooperation with the federal government on matters relating […]
Joblessness declines to 3.1 percent
Unemployment in Orange County dropped in February from 3.2 percent to 3.1 percent in January, according to a report issued Friday by the state Employment Development Department. That compares to a rate […]
