With this year’s legislative session closed, the Register took a look at what Assembly members who represent portions of Orange County accomplished in 2021.

The U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities are taking to the sky Thursday to determine the location and size of a possible new oil sheen that was spotted off the Bolsa Chica State Beach coast.

The indictment comes as cleanup and repairs related to the spill continue, and a civil legal battle over the spill is taking shape.

A Houston-based oil company and two subsidiaries were indicted Wednesday for a crude spill that fouled Southern California waters and beaches in October, an event prosecutors say was caused in

On a spreadsheet about homeless deaths maintained by the Orange County coroner’s office, a particular word jumps out: “Overdose.” It shows up repeatedly — 124 times — as the cause of death for the 372 people with “no fixed abode” who died so far this year in Orange County.

A sheen in the ocean water approximately half a mile offshore from Bolsa Chica State Beach was reported around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, prompting the U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies to respond and look for the source,

The big storm that slammed the region on Tuesday, Dec. 14 was the season’s “first flush” of trash that pushed down from inland, straight onto beaches and into the ocean.

With 14 civil lawsuits already filed in federal court since the early-October oil spill off of Huntington Beach, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter is planning to decide on which lawyers should

Orange County lost some iconic eateries and the rest ran the gamut from fine dining to quick service. Here is a roundup of those that closed in 2021.

Ralph Stanford Davis III, 51, is facing felony counts of inflicting injury on an elderly adult, violating civil rights causing violent injury, and a hate crime enhancement.