Supervisor Katrina Foley initially said publicly the controversial landfill expansion in South Orange County came as a surprise after South County residents began decrying plans to double the amount of waste being hauled into the Prima Deshecha landfill.
Yet emails show top OC Waste and Recycling staff and residents informed Foley of the move in 2023 – emails Foley says she can’t recall from her early days as a county supervisor, adding that she gets thousands of messages about county activity.
An OC Superior Court judge overturned a $2.9 million jury verdict that found a former Santa Ana police administrator was retaliated against for not picking a side between the retired chief and former police union leader.
Months after ICE protests, the Santa Ana police chief says federal officials called for back up last June and officers were sent there to act as a buffer between demonstrators and federal agents as some residents question if the police department was too heavy handed in their approach.
As cities across Orange County face increasingly bleak municipal budgets, city officials in Fullerton and Orange are eying cannabis shops as a way to drum up tax revenue in an effort to curb deficits.
Fullerton is also hiring an accounting firm to help the city figure out exactly how $10 million that was thought to be in reserves was actually money already allocated to other areas of the city as council members grapple with a projected deficit.
Huntington Beach City Council members are split over how the city should approach a rebranding contract as the mayor pushes for a certain contractor, while some elected officials say the process is tainted.
Irvine’s Oak Creek golf course could get developed into a nature park and housing as some residents still question if the move violates an open space voter initiative from the 1980s.
Fountain Valley is one of the latest OC cities to increase trash rates for residents as part of a countywide cost increase to use local landfills.
As Fullerton moves to ban synthetic kratom, Mission Viejo looks to ban all forms of the substance while advocates say the natural form of the drug provides an alternative pain relief.