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During the second round of discussions about revising Title 17 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code, or, the Harbor Code, a group of boaters, residents, and mooring permitees shared opinions, ideas, and concerns on a number of topics. As part of their ongoing effort to update the...

A lot of opinions, ideas, and concerns were shared by boaters, marine-related business owners, and mooring permitees during the first public forum for the Newport Beach Title 17 Harbor Code review this week. As part of their ongoing effort to update the city’s Harbor Code, Harbor...

The Harbor Commission Ad-Hoc Committee is seeking public input on revisions to the city’s Municipal Code, Title 17 Harbor Code. The committee is holding a series of meetings to thoroughly review Title 17, which kicks off on Monday. On Monday, and again on May 6, the...

Newport Beach Harbor Commissioner Bill Kenney announced Wednesday the key topics of review as the Commission works to update Title 17, the city’s harbor code. During the Commission meeting, Kenney went over the general topics that the Harbor Commission’s subcommittee formed to...

  Newport Beach City Council provided feedback and direction to staff over the weekend on a few specific projects and efforts, including adding some code enforcement staffing. About 60 people gathered in the community room at the Civic Center on a rainy Saturday morning for...

Residents interested in Newport Harbor got an on-the-water overview of current issues and projects from the officials over the weekend. Newport Beach Harbor Commission hosted their biennial special ferry tour meeting on Saturday. About 50 people attended the meeting, which...

Newport Harbor got some attention this week, as Newport Beach City Council unanimously approved some changes to staffing and speed limits. Council voted 4-0 on Tuesday in favor of two position re-classifications in the newly created Harbor Department and, in another agenda item,...

Following a recent Newport Beach City Council discussion and decision, there won’t be any extra local paperwork for paid signature gatherers hired to circulate petitions within city limits. Council considered, but a majority ultimately decided against, incorporating state...

There won’t be any room for tasting alcoholic beverages in West Newport Mesa anytime soon following a unanimous Newport Beach City Council meeting last week. Council voted 7-0 on May 8 to deny an amendment to the Zoning Code revising some of the city’s regulations regarding craft...

Locals in West Newport Mesa may soon find themselves “tasting” drinks in the upcoming craft alcoholic beverage manufacturing business following a city commission vote last week. The Newport Beach Planning Commission on March 22 approved a recommendation, with conditions, to City...

Management of the approximate 1,220 onshore and offshore moorings in Newport Harbor may soon switch hands from county to city control, following a meeting last week. City staff presented a program that would allow the city to take over administration of the moorings from the...

A study from the real estate research website Property Shark ranked the most expensive zip codes in the country. “We dug deep in our data, pulled out selling prices for homes throughout the country, then ranked each ZIP code based on them,” wrote Georgiana Mihaila on the Property...

Morse code and radio messages from all over the world were received loud and clear over the weekend by a group of volunteers at Coastal Peak Park as part of a nationwide event. Messages from as far as Belgium came in as volunteers from Newport Beach Radio Amateur Civil Emergency...

Records Show Party Bus CdM Girl Fell From Was Operating Illegally Charlotte Boyse, 17, a Corona del Mar High School senior fell out of a party bus on the 73 highway on her way to prom last weekend. Boyse had apparently been standing on a seat and leaning against a window when she...