Following safety concerns from residents, city officials are implementing an anti-camping ordinance and adding five more shelter beds as housing costs remain high in OC.
Category: Health & Wellness
Posted inCOAST
‘I Expected Worse:’ Measuring OC Beach Health After Wet Winter
While a wet winter spelled problems for beach pollution throughout California, Orange County’s coast managed to stay clean, even if knocked off the honor roll.
Posted inAnaheim
Anaheim Voters To Decide if Hotel Workers Get $25 Minimum Wage in October
Three resort-backed city council members are expected to write arguments against an ordinance opposed by hoteliers that aims to bump up pay for hotel workers.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
Newport Beach Looks to Curb Street Camping, Add More Shelter Beds
Newport Beach officials are looking to implement an anti-camping ordinance and add five more beds to their homeless shelter.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
California’s Housing Mandates: One Size Fits All? It Depends Who You Ask
Two Orange County cities roughly the same size with a similar number of residents see two very different state-mandated housing numbers.
Posted inHuntington Beach
Anti-LGBTQ+ and Anti-Semitic Flyers Distributed to Huntington Beach Homes
Residents living near Edison High School received the flyers this morning. It comes after a viral video surfaced earlier this week showing Edison students booing a Pride Month video.
Posted inAnaheim
Anaheim Voters to Decide if Hotel Workers Will Get a $25 Minimum Wage in Special Election
Anaheim city council members called for an estimated $1.6 million special election for residents to decide on the proposed minimum wage increase. Critics say it will result in low voter turnout.
Posted inCountywide
Southern California Hotel Workers Authorize Strike
Hotel workers across Southern California could soon go on strike as they demand better pay to keep pace with rising housing costs and better working conditions.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
Orange County Girl Scouts Who Can Sign
Mission Viejo’s Girl Scout Troop 8542 is the only one of its kind, where OC moms and girls connect around American Sign Language.
Posted inSanta Ana
Differing Ideas of Youth Services Collide in Santa Ana
It captures an ongoing debate in town over how exactly to serve young people in a city with one of OC’s youngest populations.
