A recent voter-backed initiative is funding new mental health programs across Orange County. But the traditional one-on-one care that clinicians have long provided mental health patients is being cut.
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Posted inInvestigative, Politics & Elections
More Details on the Juvenile Hall Fight
Guards, including one who was injured in the fight among 27 Orange County Juvenile Hall inmates, describe a scene consistent with a riot.
Posted inAliso Viejo, Investigative, Politics & Elections
IRS Agents Get Tax Break in Aliso Viejo
The city granted its lone hotel, the Renaissance ClubSport, a
hotel bed tax break because it didn’t want to lose the business of
the Internal Revenue Service.
Posted inCountywide, Top Stories
Letter: ‘Another Rackauckas Ruckus’
Writer says Orange County district attorney trivializes DNA collection by ‘selling dismissals for $75 and a spit in the bucket.’
Posted inCountywide, Top Stories
Ice Follies
KOCE reporter David Nazar’s “accidental” toppling of a work in progress of famed ice sculptor Roland Hernandez at the OC Fair has gone viral.
Posted inUncategorized
Ice Follies (David Nazar, Reporter; Keith Spitzer, Photographer)
KOCE’s David Nazar interviews famed ice sculptor Roland Hernandez, and more…
Posted inTustin
Two Tustin City Council Members Call for More Transparency
Councilmen Jim Palmer and Doug Davert approach the city with an idea to make commonly requested public records easily accessible.
Posted inSeal Beach
Houston, We Have a Solution
Seal Beach city manager travels to BP headquarters in Houston and returns confident that the contaminated soil from a gas station leak will at long last be removed.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Orange, Top Stories
Juvenile Hall Fight Prompts Questions About Staffing Levels
County officials say a fighting incident among 27 inmates at Orange County Juvenile Hall last weekend was quickly brought under control. Union officials argue that the melee is an example of what happens when a facility is not properly staffed.
Posted inLaguna Hills
Is the Laguna Hills Mall Getting a Facelift or Not?
A Laguna Hills city official says the mall’s owner has plans to renovate, but the owner denies that’s the case.
