Two cities. Two very different vibes. And on any given Friday night, the debate between Downtown Santa Ana and Long Beach gets surprisingly heated among Orange County regulars. Both cities punch well ...

Happy Jewelers has long focused on supporting children and healthcare initiatives. Foster Love, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering foster youth, was a natural fit. What began as a client relationship ...

At the height of South Africa’s AIDS crisis in the 1990s, Ryan and Gerda Audagnotti faced a call that changed everything. “We knew we couldn’t just stand by,” they share. “There were children in ...

Dwight Manley: The Brea King? Illustration by Paul Nagel. Photo by Federico Medina. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, once a young apprentice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and who later ran “Rainbow ...

The logo for Newport Beach’s Helmsman Ale House is a sea captain with a beard of tentacles gripping a ship’s wheel. I don’t know what his official name is, but I can’t think of a better mascot for ...

White parents vastly outnumbered the handful of Mexican women who came from La Colonia Independencia to attend a Magnolia School District board meeting on Feb. 21, 1955. The show of force was there in ...

Garden-tenders Viet Tran, Jon Reiser and Angel Zaragoza. Photo by Federico Medina As Garden Grove Mayor Steve Jones walks the Garden Amp grounds, it’s obvious he’s just as excited as all of the ...

Accused serial killer Joseph James DeAngelo, Judge John Conley and DA Tony Rackauckas (Illustration by Jeff Drew) As she prepared for bed on the final night of her life, 28-year-old Orange County ...

The buildings that have stood at what’s now 16278 Pacific Coast Highway in Sunset Beach or Surfside (call it what you want, just don’t DARE call it Huntington Beach around a local) have weathered ...

The small, circular island at the center of the iconic traffic circle at the heart of Old Towne Orange is one of the town’s most prominent celebrities (step aside, Amber Lynn). The Plaza or the Circle ...

Two sister companies in Yorba Linda must shut down and cease doing business in California as part of a $7.8 million settlement with the Orange County District Attorney’s office, which had sued them ...

The Cambodian Advocacy Collaborative held a forum in Long Beach on Saturday to reveal the results of a new “needs assessment” survey while drawing attention to recent immigration detentions impacting ...