Take a stroll along the sand in Seal Beach and Long Beach near the San Gabriel River after it rains and you might wonder if you’re in a landfill. Trash often covers the usually pristine beach after a downpour, a scene that is not just unsightly and detrimental to the ocean’s health, but a visual…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Thursday, Jan. 18 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday. THURSDAY’S SCORES GIRLS…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Newport Harbor has selected alumnus Matt Burns as its football coach, Sailors principal Sean Boulton announced Thursday. “Newport Harbor High School proudly announces the appointment of Matt Burns, a distinguished alumnus from the class of ’94, as the school’s 18th head football coach,”…
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A mistrial was declared Thursday afternoon, Jan. 18, when the jury deadlocked on the charges against a former Los Angeles Police Department officer who fatally shot an intellectually disabled man and wounded his parents after the man slugged the off-duty officer at the Costco on Corona in 2019. The state Attorney General’s Office must now…
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An $89 million home under construction Newport Coast Newport Beach, CA, on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. The four-story, nearly15,000-square-foot residence sits on a three-quarter-acre lot with unobstructed ocean, golf course, and coastline views from Laguna Beach to Newport Beach. When completed in 2025, it will have five bedrooms, eight bathrooms and indoor and outdoor pools.…
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Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Jan. 4 to Jan. 11. El Carnaval, 2026 W. Fifth St., Santa Ana Closed: Jan. 10 Reason: Insufficient hot water Reopened: Jan. 10 Landers, 1814 N. El Camino Real, San Clemente Closed: Jan. 10 Reason: Rodent infestation…
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Un-obsessed with the border, the southern border, the one everyone is talking about, I clearly need to get with the zeitgeist: The border! The border! It’s like Conrad’s Kurtz in “Heart of Darkness”: “The horror! The horror!” It’s an existential dread. But when I do think of the border, I sometimes get, instead of the…
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Imagine a future where plants are grown exclusively in biodegradable pots. That future is now for Bluestone Perennials. This mail-order nursery in Ohio now ships all of its plants in 3.5” x 4’ coir (coconut fiber) containers. The sides of the pots are breathable, allowing roots to grow through them instead of being confined and…
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The recent decisions in Colorado and Maine finding Donald Trump ineligible to run for the presidency have spawned a host of calls for the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. Rather than offer serious legal arguments, most opponents contend the decisions are anti-democratic and will have terrible consequences, such as by provoking red states to remove…
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Q. Last spring my peach tree had peach leaf curl. What can I do to prevent it from reappearing this year? Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease that causes red, warty disfiguration of peach leaves. Mild cases, in which only a few leaves are affected, will not harm the tree. Sometimes the discoloration will…
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