Sara Cardine covers the city of Costa Mesa for the Daily Pilot. She comes from the La Cañada Valley Sun, where she spent six years as the news reporter covering La Cañada Flintridge and recently received a first-place Public Service Journalism award from the California News Publishers Assn. She’s also worked at the Pasadena Weekly, Stockton Record and Lodi-News Sentinel, which instilled in her a love for community news. (714) 966-4627
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A proposal by Mayor John Stephens to allow homeowners to offer temporary shelter to those displaced by the Palisades and Eaton fires was snuffed out by concerns about nuisance properties and the city’s own housing shortage.
Richards, who started working as a consultant for the Costa Mesa fairgrounds in 2002, said Tuesday her replacement will be installed before the 2025 O.C. Fair begins in July. She will be leaving for Georgia to care for her aging mother.
Anthony Rodolfo Samayoa, 20, was arrested on suspicion of DUI, vehicular homicide and attempted car theft, while passenger Sergio Avalos, 21, faces charges of conspiracy and taking a vehicle without consent. A third occupant, Oscar Azael Macias, 20, died at the scene early Sunday.
Westend, an arts-focused bar and restaurant, will be allowed to build out a back patio with enough space to offer live entertainment and extend its hours to 2 a.m.
Run by goldsmith Todd Jost and wife Pat, the shop is winding down its South Coast Plaza operations on Jan. 31, before relocating in March to a Watch Connection on Bristol Street. The watch repair portion of Jostmar will reopen as a standalone store, 9-High Watch Services.
Santa Ana-based OC Recycling reopened the Costa Mesa facility Wednesday after a post-pandemic recycling slump and steep operational losses caused the formerly student-run center to close in 2023.
For his decades of volunteer chaplaincy to U.S. Army and NATO peacekeepers stationed in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa missionary Mark Yocom receives the prestigious Order of Aaron and Hur medal.
Officials Monday approved Houston-based firm Weaver & Tidwell, LLP, bypassing the top recommendations of a selection committee for what one trustee described as possible conflicts of interest involving the vendor ASCIP.
All the way from Altadena to Huntington Beach, the first wave of wildlife refugees are finding sanctuary from the Eaton fire in the open arms, and pens, of Huntington Beach’s Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center.
Church leaders and dignitaries celebrated the 8,000-square-foot Stambolian Family Assembly Hall, the third phase in a building plan that began in 2005 and cost more than $15 million.