A vacancy in the Santa Ana City Council’s Ward 4 seat — formerly held by Roman Reyna before he stepped down earlier this year amid allegations of election fraud — has attracted six candidates vying to win the upcoming November special election to fill his now vacant seat.
Category: Santa Ana
Santa Ana, the county seat and Orange County’s only sanctuary city, is home to about 313,000 people. We cover the City Council’s votes, its budget, policing and immigration.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE, Food, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Cooperative Garden Promotes Food Self-Determination for Santa Ana
The volunteers behind the one-time People’s Garden of Santa Ana want to make healthy food available to all.
Posted inCollegiate News Service, News Briefs, Santa Ana
Oversized Vehicle Parking Banned by Santa Ana City Council
City officials said the law was needed to alleviate safety concerns and obstruction caused to other drivers by oversized vehicles at night. Violations will be a misdemeanor.
Posted inGarden Grove, Government, NEWS, Outdoors, REGIONS, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Willowick Golf Course Sale Put on Hold
Garden Grove city officials have put on hold selling off the Willowick Golf Course – owned by Garden Grove and located in Santa Ana – to a for-profit developer and will instead abide by the state Surplus Land Act, which means they’ll look at affordable housing options for the site first.
Posted inCountywide, Government, NEWS, REGIONS, Safety, Security & Justice, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Santa Ana Will Weigh Becoming the Next OC City with a Police Oversight Board
The City of Anaheim is currently the only city in Orange County with a civilian police review board. Santa Ana City Council members this Tuesday will talk about joining those ranks.
Posted inCountywide, Housing & Homelessness, Laguna Beach, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Homeless Shelter Commitments Expand to Three New Cities
Santa Ana, Laguna Beach, and Bellflower agreed to provide specific amounts of shelter for homeless people and to not enforce anti-camping laws against them unless they’re refusing available beds that are appropriate for their disabilities.
Posted inCountywide, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Top Stories, Transportation
Downtown Santa Ana Businesses Say They’re Suffering During Streetcar Construction
Construction of the Orange County Streetcar has begun in Santa Ana, and it’s forced closures along 4th Street that downtown business owners say plummeted their sales.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Ex-Santa Ana Councilman Pleads Guilty to Election Fraud
Roman Reyna agreed to pay $578,053 in restitution to the city for the cost of an upcoming special election to fill his seat on the council, and will have a lifetime ban against holding elected office, according to prosecutors.
Posted inSanta Ana
Santa Ana’s Old YMCA Building will Become a Hotel
Developer Mike Harrah will turn the old YMCA building in downtown Santa Ana into a boutique hotel despite calls to make it a community center.
Posted inGarden Grove, Santa Ana
Critics Decry Secrecy Around Future of Willowick Golf Course
Development is on the horizon for some of the last remaining open space between Santa Ana and Garden Grove, and resident complaints are mounting about City of Santa Ana efforts to shut out the public while exclusively considering private companies’ bids to build on the area.
