The Latest Breaking News from Orange County

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An ambitious legislative effort to shut down three offshore oil rigs along the Orange County coast, where beaches and fragile wetlands were soiled after a major spill in October, could be hobbled by concerns over the eventual cost to California taxpayers.

MIAMI — As Florida legislators were rushing through passage of a bill to repeal the special district that governs Walt Disney World last week, they failed to notice an obscure provision in state law that says the state could not do what legislators were doing — unless the district’s bond…

Michael Lorenzen had no idea how many family members and friends requested tickets for his homecoming game Monday night, when the Orange County native and former Cal State Fullerton standout made his debut for the team he grew up rooting for.

Last month’s haul last was biggest in 16 years, attorney’s office said

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — Up and down the California coastline, centers that rescue seals, sea lions and other ocean life that has washed ashore are reporting a pretty normal season – except for a mystery that unfolded in Orange County that still hasn’t been solved.

LOS ANGELES — A divided Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District board voted late Tuesday night to ban the teaching of critical race theory in its classrooms, ending months of contentious debate in the Orange County school district.

LOS ANGELES — Orange County, California, prosecutors are reviewing cases worked by a DNA expert who has been accused by defense attorneys of altering her analysis to help win convictions.

Activists and historians in the Orange County city of Huntington Beach are rallying to preserve ‘sacred’ land that Japanese immigrants acquired before California enacted the Alien Land Law in 1913 that barred Asian immigrants from owning land

LOS ANGELES — An Orange County, California, man was sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison Monday for selling methamphetamine to an undercover FBI employee while he was on supervised release following a 2009 terrorism conviction.