Orange County Report 269 More COVID-19 Cases, 98 Deaths
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Orange County's push to graduate to the less-restrictive red tier of the state's COVID-19 monitoring system continued Friday as cases and hospitalizations declined.
Work on a special tribute to country music legend Dolly Parton in Orange County is nearly complete.
Despite continuing good news on COVID-19 statistics, Orange County reached one unfortunate milestone Thursday when its coronavirus death toll surpassed the 4,000 mark.
According to the Auto Club of Southern California, gas prices in Los Angeles County have hit their highest rates since December 2019, with self-serve regular gasoline getting more expensive for most of February.
Orange County Wednesday continued to show declining trends in cases of COVID-19, giving county officials hope of graduating to the less-restrictive red tier of the state's coronavirus reopening system by St. Patrick's Day.
The storm started to come down late Wednesday morning, and brought brief, heavy downpours to several areas in Orange County, making for some dangerous driving conditions in places like Aliso Viejo.
Orange County inched closer Tuesday to moving to the less-restrictive red tier of the state's COVID-19 monitoring system but the county must now keep its current metrics through Sunday.
The woman who organized the watch group posted on Friday that OCSD wanted the watch group to stop and said that detectives had spoken to numerous families and teens in the area.
Orange County officials believe they could reach all key metrics this week needed to move into the less restrictive red tier of the state's COVID-19 monitoring system.
To date, more than three million tests have been administered in Orange County and among them, there were 245,983 positive cases.
Youth athletes in Orange and Los Angeles counties playing sports like football, lacrosse and water polo finally have the green light to resume outdoor competition after being sidelined due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Orange County received more than 83,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses Thursday, allowing officials to catch up on canceled appointments and keep large-scale county-run sites open.
Orange County leaders are vowing to crack down on anti-Asian hate incidents. Since the pandemic began, these crimes are up by an estimated 1,200% in the area, according to the Center For The Study Of Hate And Extremism.
On Thursday, workers carefully hoisted the giant donut onto the shop's newest location on Harbor Boulevard in Costa Mesa.
As Orange County's COVID-19 metrics continued to move closer to the less-restrictive red tier Wednesday, restaurant workers began to prepare for the possibility of indoor dining returning.
A Santa Ana police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to accepting $128,000 in bribes from a person who was seeking to obstruct law enforcement activities against his illegally operating businesses in Orange County.
With the adjusted daily case rate of coronavirus falling behind the necessary thresholds in both counties, high school sports that were banned during the pandemic – like football and basketball – can now resume under new guidelines.
A elderly woman found wandering on foot in the 5900 block of Iroquois Road in Westminster was reunited with her family Wednesday morning.
Orange County was closer to moving out of the purple tier of the state's coronavirus monitoring system Tuesday, as the weekly update from the state showed that it meets key criteria to enter the red tier.
Orange County inched closer to moving from the purple tier to the less restrictive red tier Monday as coronavirus cases continued to decline.
With the no contest plea, Rasmuson – who had previously served time for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy in Santa Barbara County and a 3-year-old boy in Los Angeles – is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on April 27.
A routine traffic stop in south Orange County netted two kilograms of fentanyl powder and more than 11,000 counterfeit pharmaceutical pills suspected to also contain fentanyl -- a haul that may have been smuggled into the United States from Mexico, authorities said Saturday.
Orange County officials Friday received continued good news regarding declining COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations as the county waited for word on the restocking of vaccines held up by winter storms.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Thursday a lawsuit challenging a DNA database overseen by his office was "outrageous" and "absurd."
