Aided by fading winds, firefighters battling the “Canyon 2” blaze are getting the upper hand in the Anaheim Hills area as well as portions of Orange and Tustin. According to Anaheim Fire […]
Fading winds help contain north OC fires
Watson’s is nostalgia and great food
By Jim and Marilyn Tortolano If you’re looking for the kind of entertaining dining experience that can appeal to just about all ages and conditions, sometimes you’ve got to go back to […]
City limits, housing stock on the grow?
A measure which would help clear the way for both an expansion of the city limits and its stock of new single-family housing will go before the Garden Grove Planning Commission on […]
Man fatally shot by police in Orange
By Greg Hardesty An Orange man that police describe as having an extensive criminal history was shot and killed by an Orange Police Department officer late Sunday night after he armed himself […]
Violent crime drops in GG and HB
Violent crime is down in Garden Grove and Huntington Beach, according to figures released Friday by the FBI. In its nationwide study of cities with a population of 100,000 and over, four […]
Motorist killed on G. Grove Freeway
A three-car crash on the Garden Grove Freeway Sunday afternoon took the life of a 54-year-man from Orange, according to the California Highway Patrol. The motorist was identified as Felipe Nunez. The […]
Multi-city pursuit leads to an arrest
The pursuit of a suspect with a no-bail warrant that began in Garden Grove Thursday night ended up with his arrest in Santa Ana. According to the GGPD, Jacob Francisco Rodriguez, 34, […]
Street fair food and Civil War fights
It’s Labor Day weekend, the unofficial end of summer. Indulge yourself with some arts and leisure before the grind starts up again in earnest. We’ve always said that the actual year (rather […]
A citrus ‘war’ in the OC
By Jim Tortolano The County of Orange was not named after the golden fruit, but in the time before the great post-war boom, it might as well have been. Oranges, along with […]
OC turns 125 … sort of
By Pete Zarustica Orange County is (almost) officially 125 years old. On June 4, 1889, residents of the southeastern wing of Los Angeles County (typically referred to as the Santa Ana Valley), […]
