Sara Cardine covers the city of Costa Mesa for the Daily Pilot. She came from the La Cañada Valley Sun, where she spent six years as the news reporter covering La Cañada Flintridge and 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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Rodney Otis Rich, 37, faces felony charges of attempted murder and assault with a semiautomatic weapon, carrying a stolen loaded firearm in public, among others.
The 74-year-old Westminster man was crossing Skylab Road at around 2 p.m. Tuesday when he was struck by a white Honda Civic.
Two individuals — a 63-year-old Costa Mesa woman and her 37-year-old son — were arrested at a residence three blocks away from the store.
Newport-Mesa Unified School District campuses were bustling Monday as the district welcomed nearly 18,000 students to a new school year and marked the beginning of an important policy change for many middle and high schoolers.
With four council members terming out in December, Costa Mesa voters will see several new candidates this November, all of whom are already serving in civic roles with the city.
A venue in a box, Pacific Symphony’s outdoor concert series has summer shows planned in Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach.
To the dismay of Costa Mesans opposed to seeing up to 4,000 residential units built at Fairview Developmental Center, and with support from housing advocates, planning commissioners this week recommended a land-use plan for the state-owned site.
Investigators believe the driver, a man in his 70s, may have mistaken the accelerator pedal for the brake.
Council members refined the city’s response to a county grand jury report that characterizes the mandates as burdensome, opaque and impossible for cities to meet.
The process of converting an oceanfront duplex in West Newport Beach led to a lifetime of civic service for Janice “Jan” Debay, who died earlier this year in Santa Rosa at age 88.