The pandemic’s two-year homebuying binge pushed prices up an extra quarter-million bucks or more in 23 of Orange County’s 83 ZIP codes. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with December’s closed transactions from DQNews/CoreLogic,

Filing by the Center for Biological Diversity says federal agencies are failing to protect endangered sea life.

MicroPort Scientific America Inc. bought the office and R&D buildings at 16800 and 16802 Aston St. from an unidentified seller.

Poseidon is going to keep applying for all programs that help reduce costs for Southern California ratepayers.

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

The work stoppage by more than 400 employees of Republic Services, who collect trash in the contract cities and work at the company’s waste management facilities in Anaheim and Huntington

Claudia Bonilla Keller at Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County has been promoted to chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1.

Castro-Graham’s resignation is the latest issue to raise concerns over authority CEO Brian Probolsky. Some clean energy advocates complain he’s a politically connected bureaucrat with no experience in the energy field and no college diploma.

With a ship anchor suspected in the oil spill off Huntington Beach, and with record volumes of traffic in San Pedro Bay, some local leaders demand a new offshore survey.

The SBA’s disaster area declaration could help companies to resume operations, or claw back revenue, stopped or lost because of the spill.

September had 29 seven-figure ZIPs with 1,261 sales —  36% of all purchases and 9 “affordable” ZIPs with 280 sales, or 8% of the market.

Regulators… view themselves as having a customer service relationship with the oil industry,” said Miyoko Sakashita, an attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity.

Jaz Kaner, owner of Banzai Surf School, which has operated for more than a dozen years, alleges he will lose tens of thousands of dollars in early October alone because of the oil spill off of the

Two environmental groups have sued the Regional Water Quality Control Board over its decision to grant a permit for Poseidon Water’s desalination plant proposed for Huntington Beach, saying the

The buyer plans to first redo all the roads inside the park as well as some other cosmetic work,” said Jeff Benson with Marcus & Millichap, the brokerage that presented the Coulter

But the same activists who spent five years rallying support for the four-city Orange County Power Authority, which became a reality last December, are now criticizing its operations, with the biggest concern being that the authority is not adequately dedicated to clean energy.

Let me put the absurd pricing of Orange County housing into simple terms: Nearly one-third of local neighborhoods have a median selling price of $1 million or more — twice the share of two years ago.

An apartment building with nine units at 216 6th St. in Huntington Beach has been sold for $4.95 million, or $550,000 per unit, according to CBRE, which brokered the deal. The buyer, a family trust, was unidentified and was represented by Dan Blackwell and Mike O’Neill.

Irvine 92618: $1.09 million (new) — up 21%. Huntington Beach 92649: $1.06 million — off 20%. Huntington Beach 92648: $1.06 million — up 1%. Ladera Ranch 92694: $1 million (new ...

Activists, regulators and utilities all emphasize the urgency in meeting the state’s ambitious clean energy goals, while last August’s rolling blackouts and the state’s decision to extend the life of outdated Southern California gas-fired power generators help underscore the call to step up the pace.