Irvine’s Tanaka Farms, working with local businesses and nonprofits, formed an initiative named Helping Farms Feed Families.
Category: Irvine
Irvine, home to UC Irvine and the Great Park, has about 318,000 residents. We cover the City Council’s votes, its budget, the Great Park and development.
Posted inCountywide
Wild Rivers Officially Returning To Orange County Great Park
Nearly a decade after the water park closed in 2011, the Irvine City Council voted to approve a new lease agreement for the Orange County attraction.
Posted inIrvine
Veterans Cemetery Location To Be Chosen By Voters In November
With nearly 13,000 verified signatures, the initiative now moves to the Irvine City Council, who can approve the motion as written or place it on the November ballot.
Posted inIrvine
Irvine’s City Council Authorized Nearly A Billion Dollars in Great Park Neighborhood Debt With Less Than Five Minutes of Open Discussion
Over the past six years, Irvine City Council members approved nearly $1 Billion in potential bond indebtedness for the Orange County Great Park neighborhoods with less than five minutes of public discussion.
Posted inEconomy
OC Cities Debate Financial Response To Coronavirus Sales, Hotel Tax Losses
As cities begin to evaluate the loss in tax revenue due to coronavirus, different measures are being put in place to reduce spending and adjust upcoming budgets.
Posted inREGIONS
Without a Broader County Mandate, Mask Laws Vary By City
Tonight, Fullerton could join other cities in OC requiring face coverings to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Cities like Costa Mesa and Buena Park required everyone to cover up when out in public, while others like Santa Ana, Irvine, and Westminster only apply the mandate to employers and workers in essential businesses while residents in those cities are merely encouraged to cover up.
Posted inCountywide, Irvine, Top Stories
UC Irvine Students Wrestle With Lease Break Payments
College students living in the University Town Center managed by the Irvine Company are trying to return home after the university was shut down, but can’t afford the payments to break their leases early.
Posted inCountywide, Emergencies & Disasters, Government, Health & Wellness, Irvine, NEWS, Politics & Elections, REGIONS, Santa Ana, Top Stories, Westminster
How Coronavirus Will Affect OC Special Elections This Year
In-person voting has been cancelled for a special recall election in Westminster. It’s still up in the air whether Santa Ana’s special recall election will follow suit.
Posted inAnaheim, Costa Mesa, Emergencies & Disasters, Irvine, Top Stories
Cities Across Orange County Adopt Eviction Ban Ordinances
Cities across Orange County cities are adopting bans on evictions due to the economic fallout from the state’s stay home order. To date, Santa Ana, Anaheim and Costa Mesa have adopted bans while cities like Irvine and Garden Grove have adopted softer consumer protections. Meanwhile, questions mount about what the bans will do to smaller property owners.
Posted inCountywide, Emergencies & Disasters, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Irvine, Safety, Security & Justice, Top Stories
UCI Doctors Say Hospital Administrators Failing to Provide Enough Protective Equipment
Doctors in at least one OC hospital, UC Irvine Medical Center, are ringing alarm bells of crucial supply shortages and a lack of adequate response by administrators to a local outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
