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Read more about NBFD’s mutual aid to the fires here. The Newport Beach Fire Department personnel who responded to the wildland fires in northern California are now on their way back home, officials announced in a press release this week. The 11 NBFD employees and...

As the state continues to burn with multiple wildfires, Newport Beach Fire Department joined in the fight to extinguish the dangerous blazes. On July 25, 10 NBFD fire personnel, consisting of two battalion chiefs and two engine companies (NE 62 Lido and NE 63 Fashion Island),...

Former President of the United States Barack Obama announced his endorsement of Harley Rouda, candidate for Congress in California’s 48th District, which covers Newport Beach, on Wednesday. In a press release on Wednesday, Rouda said he was honored to have the 44th...

The narrow roller coaster race for second place in California’s 48th Congressional District, which includes Newport Beach, had another switch-up this week. Monday’s update caused Hans Keirstead and Harley Rouda, both Democrats from Laguna Beach, to again swap places, leaving...

As California’s statewide primary election unfolded Tuesday night, the nation’s eyes were on the 48th Congressional District. Would one of the leading Democratic candidates advance in California’s top-two primary? Or would another Republican in the predominantly red-leaning...

Wednesday’s 5 p.m. election results update brought with it yet another dramatic change-up — and at a difference of just 45 votes, a more narrow gap — in the race for the coveted second place position in the 48th Congressional District, which covers Newport Beach. The latest...

In the tightest race on Newport Beach voters’ ballots Tuesday, the 48th Congressional District, the top spot easily went to the longtime incumbent, but the fight for second place is down to a difference of just 73 votes. While Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher held...

By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy About 100,000 new voters who have recently registered to cast ballots in anticipation of next week’s California primary election, where four congressional districts in Orange County are in play. Despite the bump in voter registration countywide, within...

By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy Political campaign advertising in the run-up to California’s June 5 primary is surfacing on lawns, on cable television, in mailboxes and online, but some of the sloganeering is being underwritten by interests other than the candidates themselves. At...

Newport Beach City Council hit the pause button this week on the official effort to pursue legislation that proposes to establish Newport Harbor as a “port” and authorize the city to apply for a Port Master Plan. Council voted 4-1 on Tuesday, with Councilman Scott Peotter...

The California Coastal Commission voted April 12 to oppose Assembly Bill 1196, which proposes to establish Newport Harbor as a “port” and authorize the city to apply for a Port Master Plan. The CCC voted 9-3, with commissioners Erik Howell, Ryan Sundberg and Roberto Uranga...

As some have coined 2018 “Year of the Harbor” in Newport Beach, the idea of a “Port Master Plan” is making waves. The possible PMP was the focus of the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce Marine Committee’s discussion Tuesday. About 40 people, including city staff, Council members,...

A man died Thursday after the pickup truck he was driving collided with a heavy equipment grader on southbound 73 toll road between Bison Avenue and Bonita Canyon Drive, authorities reported. A 30-year-old man was driving a Ford F-250 southbound on state route 73 when, for...

By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy Kylie Mawson experienced first-hand the terror of being a human target as she crawled across the grounds of a country music festival in Las Vegas as a gunman fired more than 1,100 rounds from a high-rise hotel, leaving 58 fans dead and 851 injured on...

By Andrea Adelson and Victoria Kertz | LB and NB Indy In a first sign of consolidation among candidates bidding to unseat Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in the midterm election, Newport Beach resident and architect Laura Oatman this week ended her campaign and endorsed one of her...

In order to preserve the original intent of the Central Avenue Public Pier, the Newport Beach Harbor Commission voted 3 to 2 Wednesday to “respectfully decline” state grant funds that included a requirement they found to be conflicting to the dock’s main purpose. The Commission’s...

As the laws regarding marijuana change, so does authorities’ approach to enforcement, as local police informed a  city committee this week. On Monday, Officer David Spenser of the Newport Beach Police Department briefed the Civil Service Board with a cannabis enforcement update....

By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy A question about identifying foreign security threats to the United States elicited both half jests and dead serious replies at a candidate forum in Irvine Tuesday. The five Democrats featured on the panel are bidding to challenge the Republican...

By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy With the national reckoning over sexual harassment as the backdrop, six candidates who want to represent Orange County’s coastal cities, including Newport Beach, in Congress took to a stage in Costa Mesa last week to stake their claim as champions of...

By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy In the race for the state Assembly district that covers Newport Beach, the candidacy of Laguna Beach resident Cottie Petrie-Norris received a boost this week from the California Democratic Party, which endorsed her bid for office. At several locations...