Author: OCCLIPPER Editorial Team

A special election costing as much as $1 million will likely be called by the Garden Grove City Council to settle a protest of an ordinance approving the zoning for a 500-room, 23-story Nickelodeon hotel on Harbor Boulevard.

The first batch of ballots are scheduled to go out Saturday morning in Newport Beach’s evolving special election amid a series of legal challenges, including the California Secretary of State debating whether the election is legitimate or not, according to one city council member. 

Building more reasonably priced housing near good-paying jobs could cut California’s long commutes and trim – not increase – traffic jams for everybody.

Minnesota’s start to voting Friday begins without a cloud over how ballots sent through the mail are handled, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has turned back potential restrictions.

True or false: Trump’s name is now on the Kennedy Center. The quiz has the answerThe world made it to another Friday without an AI apocalypse, so here’s the quiz! See you next week … maybe.

A man was killed by a shark as he swam off a Western Australian city beach Friday while beachgoers watched in horror.

Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, after more than 60 years guiding the firm that turned him into a household name for millions of investors worldwide.

As a teenager, LeRoy Chatfield took an oath with the Congregation of Christian Brothers to live a life of poverty. For the next 16 years, he hardly owned any material possessions and worked for free as a high school teacher in San Francisco and throughout some of the poorest areas in the San Joaquin Valley.…

Newport Beach-based Tailwind Investment Group purchased the ground lease for a 62-unit affordable housing complex on Santa Catalina Island for $8.64 million, or about $139,400 per unit.

The Whittier Comstock LLC, an affiliate of Matt Waken’s MW Investment LLC, acquired the Fairway Center II, a 135,308-square-foot office building in Brea for $27.9 million.