The city of Huntington Beach, California, won the first victory Thursday against the State of California over a controversial new “sanctuary state” law, arguing successfully that the law infringed on its local government powers.
Democrat Katie Porter, who is challenging incumbent Rep. Mimi Walters (R-CA) in California’s 45th congressional district, has been accused of flip-flopping on the state’s controversial gas tax and misrepresenting her earlier support for raising it.
A flock of 50 Bird dockless electric scooters that arrived at the Newport Beach Peninsula last weekend without a permit caused lots of complaints and were promptly banned by the city.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and his Democratic challenger, Harley Rouda, have started the race for the key Orange County congressional seat in a dead heat, according to a new survey conducted by Monmouth University in New Jersey.
Orange County Democrats are hoping that Asian-American voters will provide the votes necessary for a “blue wave” to crash across Republican-held districts — and avoid a shutout in key primary races for Congress.
A majority of Californians in Orange County oppose sanctuary cities, according to the most recent UC Berkeley Institute of Government Studies (IGS) poll released on Friday. The poll found that 51% of Orange County residents oppose the state’s sanctuary laws for illegal immigrants while 47% approve.
San Diego County’s Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 on Tuesday to support the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against California’s sanctuary laws.
More cities have joined the revolt against California’s sanctuary state law as opposition grows by the week and cities join a federal government lawsuit against their own state.
The City of Los Angeles wants to pay property owners to renovate garages and build backyard houses to rent out to the homeless.
Former Democratic congressman and now California Attorney General Xavier Becerra issued guidance to law enforcement on Wednesday, which said that the state would comply with federal immigration law but not act as federal immigration agents.
San Diego County and the city of Escondido in the coming weeks will also reportedly consider defying California’s “sanctuary state” laws, following Los Alamitos and Orange County.
Throngs of protesters from Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Laguna Niguel shouted-down an Orange County Supervisors meeting to force a reversal of the plan to set up homeless tent camps next to local city parks.
President Donald Trump offered support Wednesday to the Orange County leaders and activists who are rebelling against the State of California’s “sanctuary state” laws and siding with the federal government against them.
The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted 3-0 Monday evening to join the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the State of California’s “sanctuary state” laws.
The revolt against the State of California’s “sanctuary state” laws is growing in Orange County, with supervisors scheduled to discuss a resolution Tuesday condemning the state’s defiance of federal immigration law, and possibly directing the county to join the federal lawsuit against the Golden State.
The Los Angeles City Council voted last week to develop an “emergency” plan that could operate trailer and tent encampments to house 34,000-homeless — similar to the plan developed by Orange County.
The three cities where Orange County planned to erect tent camps to warehouse evicted Santa Ana River homeless people are threatening lawsuits to block the move.
More California cities may consider defying the state’s “sanctuary state” laws, after the city council of Los Alamitos passed an ordinance defying the state’s controversial new legislation preventing cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
The city council of Los Alamitos, California, in Orange County voted 4-1 Monday night for an ordinance to defy the state’s new “sanctuary state” law, and to assist federal law enforcement in stopping illegal immigration.
The city council of Los Alamitos, in Orange Country, will vote Monday on whether to defy SB 54, the State of California’s “sanctuary state” law, which passed last year and went into effect January 1.
Orange County found 13,950 used hypodermic needles left by evicted homeless people along the Santa Ana River, confirming public health concerns that led to the camps’ removal.
Progressive Democrat billionaire and environmental activist Tom Steyer believes California’s nearly 10 million millennials are the key to seeing a Democrat-controlled Congress, and he is reportedly prepared to spend at least $3.5 million of his own money to achieve it.
The “March Miracle” storm system that has lashed California for the last four days, dumping 6 feet of snow in the Sierra Mountains, just ended what appeared to be a new drought.
Warnings have been posted for the risk of mudslides in areas that burned in last year’s wildfires, as bone-dry California looks forward to its best week of rain and snow this winter.
Half of California is officially back in drought, while the Midwest and Plains may suffer from extreme flooding, as the extreme La Niña weather condition intensifies.
Democrats reportedly outraised their GOP counterparts in key 2018 U.S. House races in California last year — and in the battleground area of Orange County, that could make a major difference.
An Orange County jury awarded the Grumpy Cat $710,001 in damages this week after a beverage company allegedly failed to honor the kitty with the infamous sourpuss image.
Orange County officials have begun removing the thousands of homeless people that now line the 35-mile stretch of the Santa Ana River from Prado Dam to the ocean.
Left-wing billionaire and environment activist Tom Steyer is reportedly pouring millions of dollars into Orange County, California, to mobilize millennial voters to turn at least four at-risk red seats blue and shift the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.
Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), the powerful chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, currently serving his 13th term in Congress, announced Monday that he will retire after 2018 and will not seek re-election this November.
An armed 70-year-old Orange County, Florida, homeowner opened fire on two 18-year-old armed robbery suspects Wednesday, killing one.
Two California Republicans, Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), voted against the tax reform bill on Tuesday.
Cooler weather brought on by onshore winds helped more than 1600 firefighters knock down the “Canyon Fire 2” that ravaged the Orange County hillsides around Anaheim, Tustin, and Orange Monday and Tuesday.
Gale-force winds gusting upwards of 70 mph fueled a fast-moving brush fire in the Anaheim Hills area of Orange County Monday, destroying at least 24 structures and consuming 7,500 acres as it raged through the night, forcing thousands to remain evacuated.
Orange County seems on its own trying to fight fast-moving Canyon Fire No. 2 that is burning homes and forcing thousands to evacuate as CalFire’s entire capacity is deployed fighting the other 25 major fire’s burning across the state.
State and federal agencies are investigating an incident in California where a teacher is suspected to have distributed flutes containing his bodily fluids to Orange County students, officials say.
A new video has surfaced that shows how three inmates escaped from a California maximum security prison in January 2016.
A California man who pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and pimping charges in Orange County received a 31-year prison sentence, officials said.
A California Sheriff said this week that the Democrat-sponsored “sanctuary state” bill — barring all local law enforcement statewide from cooperating with federal immigration authorities — is “all about sticking it to Trump.”
Brandon Mebane, who is set to earn $3.5 million next year, was looking for a rental home with his wife in a brand new community in Irvine. The Mebanes were turned down due to the player’s credit score.
