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Orange County news. Our nonprofit and nonpartisan news agency focuses on quality of life, arts and culture.

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BREAKING: Tito Ortiz Resigns From Huntington Beach City Council
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BREAKING: Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu Resigns After FBI Reveals Anaheim Corruption Probe
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OC Now Has Its First Democrat Majority on Board of Supervisors in Almost 50 Years
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Democrats Poised to Take Majority on OC Board of Supervisors for First Time in Decades
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Orange County Officials Told Anaheim City Manager to Keep Secret Coronavirus Zip Code Data -
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BREAKING: Huntington Beach bans the flying of any flags -- including the pride flag -- that aren’t official government flags or flags for the armed forces.
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Police unions are becoming the biggest spenders in elections across OC. Local leaders worry it’s creating an environment where cops have the power to elect – or unseat – the very people they’re supposed to answer to.
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HB Councilman Tito Ortiz Likely To Be Stripped of Mayor Pro Tem Title on Monday
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BREAKING: Anaheim City Council members vote 5-0-1 to designate an area along Brookhurst St., from Ball Rd to Broadway, as Little Arabia in the west end of town.
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Rhonda Bolton Appointed to Huntington Beach City Council, Becoming First Black Woman on Dais
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BREAKING: A three-judge panel decided Disney does get a “city subsidy” stemming from a 1996 resort bond agreement, which means the entertainment juggernaut now falls under the city’s minimum wage ordinance.
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State Launches Money Laundering Investigation into Andrew Do and OC Republican Party -
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NEW: Anaheim has recognized what may be the U.S.’ first, formal Arab American cultural district.
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BREAKING: San Clemente City Council Backs Off Abortion Ban Following Public Backlash
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BREAKING: Nya Jingles of Yorba Linda Found Safe Tuesday After Missing for 5 Days
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BREAKING: Orange County Residents Again Required to Wear Coronavirus Masks, Following Gov. Newsom Order -
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Orange County Board of Education Panel Calls for a Fall Return to Classes with No Masks or Distancing
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BREAKING: Fully Vaccinated Orange County Residents Still Required To Wear Masks Indoors For Another Month
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Orange County Fair Officials Resist Continued Calls to Take Down Pride Flag
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BREAKING: Democrats Take Strong Early Results Lead in Effort to Flip OC Supervisor Seat
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Largest Orange County School District Rejects Parental Notification Policy
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OC Supervisors Spent More Covid Response Money on Sheriff Staff Than Health Workers
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BREAKING: Feds Indict OC Residents Alan Hostetter and Russell Taylor for Conspiring in Capitol Riot
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BREAKING: California Supreme Court Swiftly Denies OC Board of Education School Mask Mandate Petition
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Update: Foley is leading the field with 44% of the ballots reported in the latest update at 9:30 p.m., followed by Republican John Moorlach, a former supervisor, with 31%.
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BREAKING: Santa Ana Unified School District Changes Reopening Plans to an Entirely Distance Learning Model
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Listen to one public speaker at Tuesday's Anaheim City Council meeting, Kenneth Batiste, react to this week's revelations about an FBI corruption probe into Mayor Harry Sidhu and a criminal indictment against the former Chamber of Commerce CEO, Todd Ament.
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Just One Vote Made The Difference In Brea’s Local School Board Race - the latest column from VOC Publisher @NorbertoSantana -
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Well, after updating our bio this morning to include our founding date (June 3, 2009) on our profile, Twitter locked our account in case the account was for a child. We've got it all cleared up and we're back at it.
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BREAKING: California Sues Huntington Beach For Failing to Adopt a Housing Plan
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Fullerton joins a host of OC cities who are rethinking their approach to homelessness by using social workers instead of cops to respond to calls under a county funded program.
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DEVELOPING STORY: The Orange County Board of Education approved guidelines for returning to school that advocate for the use of no masks or social distancing in a 4-1 vote on Tuesday night.
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OC Fair Officials Say They Have No Plans to Remove Pride Flag Amid Outcry
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BREAKING: Chairman Andrew Do quit his CalOptima board position on Thursday – the day after Voice of OC reported state officials are investigating the agency for large salary spikes and hiring practices.
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A flurry of recent felony charges against OC sheriff’s deputies – including falsifying police reports – is prompting questions about honesty and integrity lapses within the department.
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BREAKING: State Housing Department: Anaheim Illegally Sold Angel Stadium
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Democratic Rep. Katie Porter Wins Reelection
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BREAKING: Pipeline Operator Waited Over 3 Hours to Shut Down Oil Leak, 6 Hours to Report It, Feds Say
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Thanks to everyone, we’re at 10k!
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BREAKING: Feds Charge Anaheim’s Chamber of Commerce CEO in Corruption Probe
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BREAKING: Orange County Grocery Workers Vote to Authorize Strike
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Newport Beach Residents Stop $13K County Sale of Back Bay Parkland to Wealthy GOP Donor
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Editor's Note: Orange County Supervisors removed their term limits item from Tuesday’s public agenda after this column was published.
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Irvine Mayor Sued Over Facebook Blocking And Deleting Of Comments -
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BREAKING: State Officials Urge Two-Week Travel Quarantine as Second Coronavirus Wave Hits -
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BREAKING: Nearly All Orange County Residents Will Qualify For Coronavirus Vaccinations Next Month
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On Harvey Milk Day, Rancho Santa Margarita Residents Rally to Join Other Orange County Cities Flying Pride Flag
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Internal sheriff records obtained by Voice of OC are opening up a window into hundreds of sustained policy violations by Sheriff’s Department staff – ranging from excessive force to mishandling evidence, dishonesty and burglary.
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South County Teen Sues OC Sheriff Deputy Who Pulled Gun on Him at Skate Park While Off Duty
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BREAKING: Major Orange County Arts Orgs to Require Masks and Full COVID-19 Vaccination for the Foreseeable Future
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Every County in So Cal Offers Residents Public Updates on Covid, Except OC
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1/ With OC’s coronavirus hospitalizations reaching their highest levels yet, health and business leaders are raising concerns the county’s top elected official is underplaying the truth of the pandemic’s continued spread.
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Orange County’s District Attorney Todd Spitzer is refusing to publicly release racial data on who his office prosecutes following a court order on the issue.
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Judge Finds OC DA Todd Spitzer Violated Racial Bias Law – Could Be First in State for an Elected DA
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BREAKING: Anaheim City Council Cans Angel Stadium Deal After FBI Corruption Probe Into City Hall
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BREAKING: OC Residents in Ambulances Are Now Waiting Outside of Hospitals Nearly As Long As During Covid Winter Surge
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BREAKING: An OC Supervisor Gutted the Watchdog Office for Probing Sheriff, Says Grand Jury Report
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Did you feel it? Early data shows the M 4.6 earthquake at 11:38 p.m. in South El Monte was felt down into OC, as far south as San Clemente.
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BREAKING: Lead Police Detective Criticizes DA Todd Spitzer’s Statements About Race, Alleges Cover-Up
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BREAKING: OC Residents Need Proof of COVID Vaccine or Recent Negative Test For More Indoor Events
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BREAKING: The Orange County Board of Education is meeting tonight to discuss their guidelines for students returning to school, and have maxed out the Zoom attendees. It can be viewed on YouTube here . The Zoom maximum is 1,000 participants.
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Irvine Becomes First City In Orange County to Approve Hero Pay for Grocery Workers
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“People need to take authorities seriously and stay away from the area. People tend to talk about the tarry parts of the oil but there’s also volatile portions of the oil they can breathe depending on the type of oil,” said Linda Bui, a @LSU environmental service professor.
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“You are 25x less likely to be hospitalized if you get the vaccine. You’re 28x less likely to die if you get the vaccine. We don’t have any treatment that matches anywhere near those numbers.” Dr. Timothy Korber, med. dir. of em. medical services at F.V. Regional Hospital
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Fresh off a tight reelection win in a competitive Orange County district, U.S. Congressional Rep. Katie Porter (D-Irvine) has thrown her hat into the ring for Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat in an election that’s two years away.
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OC Board of Education Member Mari Barke is being sued by a retired federal judge for allegedly not reporting millions in income since she was elected.
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Oil in the Talbert Marsh.
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BREAKING: National Protests Against Police Violence Reach Orange County
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BREAKING: OC Judge Orders All 5 Mission Viejo Council Members Must Stand For Election in November
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County supervisors didn’t ask any questions about where the equipment ended up, and the sheriff’s department didn’t respond to questions on how $2 million in inventory disappeared.
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COMMUNITY OPINION: The Failings of Orange County’s Response to Covid-19 -
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There’s not one news outlet in Orange County that has kept up with an FBI corruption scandal one year since it rocked Irvine except the Voice of OC.
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Mask Mandate Returns to Orange County Wednesday
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BREAKING: A former Huntington Beach mayor is calling for an OC Superior Court Judge to immediately halt any payouts over the $7 million airshow settlement, saying it was improperly awarded.
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BREAKING: Gov. Newsom Closes Orange County’s Churches, Indoor Malls, Barber Shops and Gyms -
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BREAKING: Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do Faces $12,000 State Fine Over ‘Pay to Play’ Politics
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The Voice of OC team has been working tirelessly to bring you the 4,259 Board of Education emails debating fall school plans. Today, we publish just over half (2,573), while we work on the remainder.
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Orange County’s Coronavirus Death, Hospitalization Rates Now Higher than San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties -
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BREAKING: OC Board of Education Looking to Sue Gov. Newsom Over Classroom Mask Mandate
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OC Supervisors Were Warned About Approving Homes in Wildfire Zones That Just Burned Again
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Voice of OC Read by More Than 1 Million People in July
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DON'T MISS: Santa Ana Council Narrowly Moves Forward With Citywide Rent Control, Eviction Protection Policies
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OC Restaurant Outbreaks Rose Sharply When Indoor Dining Opened, And Are Down Since it Closed, County Says -
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Democrat Tom Umberg takes a slight lead over Republican Janet Nguyen with today’s updated vote count - by 438 votes - in the race for the 34th state Senate seat. Since Saturday, Umberg gained 6,063 votes to Nguyen’s 4,446 (OC updated today, LA updates again tomorrow).
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BREAKING: Journalists’ Association Calls on Top OC Official to Apologize for Criticizing Questions About Pandemic Spending
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OC Sheriff Says Covid Vaccinations Now Mandatory for Jail Deputies, as Infections Rise
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A bombshell report identifies nearly 60 potential criminal violations, much of it involving insider dealings, after an independent look at how Anaheim City Hall really works – or doesn’t – for residents.
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BREAKING: A new report from the OC Human Relations Commission found a 67% increase in hate crimes last year, continuing a growing trend of increasing hate in Orange County.
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