The lawmaker said he knows there aren't tracking devices in vaccines, but he wanted his constituents to hear it from the top county health official.

At least 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes in Irvine, California. A wildfire that began Monday morning has already scorched 7,200 acres. Two firefighters have suffered critical injuries fighting the blaze. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. The Silverado Fire in Southern California has forced the […]

Disneyland Resort can safely reopen once local COVID-19 cases fall, unions representing more than 10,000 workers have told California governor Gavin Newsom. Currently, large theme parks in the state are barred from opening, regardless of local infection numbers. The unions urged Newsom’s theme park taskforce to meet with them and […]

A cop in Southern California who wore a patch on his uniform in June referencing far-right extremist groups will not be fired, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department announced. “Although I cannot go into the specific details of the investigation, I can tell you that there is no evidence revealed that […]

On Monday, the Orange County Board of Education voted to approve guidelines to reopen schools for in-person learning in the fall – without requiring masks or social-distancing measures. Individual school districts within the county can decide whether to heed the board’s recommendations, but local parents told us the decision has […]

The Orange County Board of Education voted to approve recommendations for reopening schools in the fall – without masks or social distancing measures, the Los Angeles Times reported. The Board of Education ruled that individual school districts could decide their own reopening plans – but recommended widespread reopening. Its ruling […]

The Los Angeles and San Diego unified school systems said they will be starting the fall semester off online in a joint statement. The announcement comes after President Donald Trump said he’d pressure states to reopen in-person classes in the fall. The two districts have a combined total of 700,000 […]

A man has been charged with poisoning a group of homeless people in Huntington Beach, California. Prosecutors accused William Robert Cable of using a substance twice as strong as pepper spray to tamper with food that was offered to at least eight people, and then filming their reactions. Some suffered […]

Orange County’s former chief health officer resigned after she received threats for issuing a requirement that residents wear face masks in public. A few days later, Orange County’s district supervisor said masks would be “strongly recommended” instead of required. But evidence suggests that mask wearing helps lower coronavirus transmission and […]

South Coast Plaza is a luxury shopping centre in California’s Orange County speckled with recognisable luxury brands like Balenciaga, Chanel, Gucci, and Christian Louboutin. There has been a visible decline, however, in visitors amid the coronavirus scare, according to two employee accounts and photos taken on a recent visit on […]

Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna were buried in a private funeral service on Friday, according to reports. Citing Kobe Bryant’s death certificate, the local Fox affiliate KTTV and Entertainment Tonight said the funeral was at Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona del Mar, California. Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant, and […]

Orange County tap water is “as clean as water can be,” the activist Seth Siegel writes in his new book, “Troubled Water.” Things weren’t always that way: For decades, seawater was seeping into the community’s freshwater supply, threatening to expose residents to excess sodium in their taps. But in 2008, […]

Five people were killed Sunday after a small plane crashed in a suburban neighbourhood in Yorba Linda, California. A male pilot was the only person in the plane, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said Sunday, and police confirmed four additional victims were inside the home. The plane was a Cessna […]

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VIDEO: Three inmates escaped from a Southern California maximum-security jail sometime between their 5AM and 8PM headcount on Friday, January 22.

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