Dr. Dallas Weaver, 79, left, and his wife, Janet Weaver, 75, on the Huntington Beach Pier on Wednesday. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Orange County had 42 confirmed cases of the coronavirus on Wednesday up from 29 on Tuesday.

The City Council on Tuesday night declared a local emergency in order to be eligible for federal and state relief funds. Many other cities, including Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach, also have closed their city halls to the public and declared local emergencies.

Gov. Gavin Newsom emphasized that California relies on National Guard assistance in times of emergency, and said its role would be public safety.

It looked like business as usual at the Boys & Girls Clubs site in Huntington Beach. Despite the shuttering of schools this week due to the coronavirus, children chatted and laughed together Thursday morning, March 19, as they drew pictures or cut construction paper into shapes. At second glance, however, another story materialized. The kids ...

Last week, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, which includes Corona del Mar, Costa Mesa, Estancia and Newport Harbor high schools, and the Huntington Beach Union High School District, home to Edison, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Marina, Ocean View and Westminster high schools, decided to close their campuses starting Monday and ...

Regular hours will begin at 8 a.m. Jesse Gonzalez, 30, an assistant manager at Buffalo Wild Wings at the Bella Terra mall in Huntington Beach, said he didn’t react immediately to news of the coronavirus’s outbreak weeks ago, but a recent trip to a grocery store changed that for him. “I wasn’t panicking or none of that,” Gonzalez said.

ANDESITE mission spacecraft integration team working at Rocket Lab's Huntington Beach, California, facility. Pictured from left to right: NASA's Brad Poffenberger; Boston University's Alexsandrs Zosuls, Rousseau Nutter, Thuc Huy Nguyen and Cameron Winslow; and TriSept's Jason Armstrong. Credit: TriSept SAN FRANCISCO – Boston University ...

The long-standing professional beach volleyball tour joins the list of sports pausing due to coronavirus concerns.

Costa Mesa also halted public admission to its City Hall on Monday. Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Fountain Valley have not done so, though Newport Beach closed its libraries for the rest of March. Libraries in Laguna Beach, Costa Mesa and Fountain Valley were closed by the OC Public Libraries system for the rest of the month. Gov.

“We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and look forward to resuming full library services as soon as we can.” As of Monday morning, the Huntington Beach Public Library, which like Newport Beach isn’t part of the OC Public Libraries system, had not closed. Newport’s four library branches already had suspended all events ...