“Ruth was always doing something for others,” said her sister and best friend, Huntington Beach resident Judith Spirtos. Just 18 months apart, Spirtos and Cortes grew up in Anaheim as inseparable playmates. Her trademark selflessness compelled Cortes to postpone medical school. After her mother died in 2002, Cortes put acceptances on hold ...

The tournament is the Jim Harris Classic at Ocean View High. The Orange County teams in it are Capistrano Valley, Fountain Valley, Huntington Beach, Ocean View, Portola, Trabuco Hills and Villa Park. The first-round schedule Monday: Capistrano Valley vs. Long Beach Wilson, 3 p.m.; Murrieta Valley vs. Diamond Ranch, 4:30 p.m.; Long Beach ...

Ten veterans and first responders paddled nearly 30 miles from Catalina Island to Huntington Beach on Veterans Day Monday. The group with nonprofit Operation Open Water hopes to highlight high rates of PTSD and suicide among former service members. Chip Yost reports for the KTLA 5 News at 3 on Nov. 11, 2019.

“We can do together what I cannot do alone,” said Danny Nichols, event director for the inaugural Operation Open Water, an endurance trek across the ocean on Monday, Nov. 11, that ended in Huntington Beach. Joining Nichols were eight other paddlers who set out with the same purpose: To raise awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder ...

Orange County teams selected for Divisions I-V: Division I, Aliso Niguel, Corona del Mar, Esperanza, Foothill, Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach; Division III, Tustin; and Division IV, Garden Grove. Mater Dei is seeded third in the Open Division that starts play Wednesday. The Monarchs were given a first-round bye and will play at No. 2 seed ...

Last spring she sold SeaSalt, her other restaurant in the same shopping center on Beach Boulevard and that is now Social Huntington Beach. She thought that would give her enough time back but it hasn’t. Her SeaLegs lease was ending in 2020 and she thought she would ride it out, but a regular customer approached her and that person is now ...

At the state level, this same tension recurs. At the end of October, an appeal was heard on the challenge the cities of Huntington Beach and Los Alamitos made to the same California laws banning assistance by state or local police to federal law enforcement efforts regarding immigration. How cities direct their own police departments ...

Huntington Beach’s girls tennis team aimed Monday to show it belonged with the top teams in CIF-SS Division 1. Last season’s CIF-SS Division 3 champion defeated postseason regular Troy 10-8 in a quarterfinal match at Huntington Beach High to advance to ...

Shabu shabu meats are offered a la carte or through an AYCE option that starts at $13 per person. 605 N Euclid St, Anaheim, CA 92801 Luli Cafe has opened in Huntington Beach, serving breakfast and lunch. Menu items include omelettes, pan con chorizo y huevo, and shrimp tacos. 3801 Warner Ave, Huntington Beach, CA 92649 Gob Chang, a Korean ...

Costa Mesa saw a similar flip earlier this year. And while more than half (18) of Orange County’s 34 cities remain majority GOP, four of the five biggest cities in the county (excluding Huntington Beach) are now Democrat majority. And, overall, 64% of the county’s residents live in a city with more registered Democrats than Republicans.

HUNTINGTON BEACH — Edison quarterback Braeden Boyles and Heritage running back Kenny Teter were locked in a one-on-one duel Friday night in the first half of their CIF-SS Division 3 first-round game. Boyles ended up getting the best of Teter in the 42-27 victory at Huntington Beach High, as he completed 15 of 20 passes for 323 yards and four ...

Long Beach moves ahead with cruise terminal expansion, despite environmental concerns Developer scales back apartments, commercial space in proposal for redeveloping Laguna Hills Mall Unveiling of clock tower marks start of $330 million Dana Point Harbor renovation Huntington Beach sued for rejecting 48-unit condo complex The 128-home The ...

California State Parks Lifeguard Steven Hicks at Bolsa Chica State Beach in Huntington Beach on Wednesday, November 6, 2019. Hicks is retiring after 40 years as a lifeguard on the same beach. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG) Steven Hicks scans the sand and the water, his eyes darting back and forth just as they’ve done fo ...

The wife of a Huntington Beach man found dead after going on a hike in the Inyo National Forest is pregnant with their first child, according to a fundraising page launched Friday. The remains of Alan Stringer, 40, were found on a glacier in the Eastern Sierra beneath Mount Darwin around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office said.

Some of the dead western gulls that washed ashore on Huntington Beach last month tested positive for a type of botulism more commonly associated with humans. That was the unexpected finding from necropsies performed on the birds, the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center said Friday. On Oct. 10, personnel from the care center responded to a report ...

A person found dead in the eastern Sierra Nevada was confirmed Thursday as a Huntington Beach man who went missing after going on a hike in the Inyo National Forest last week, authorities said. On the evening of Monday, November 4, authorities received a call about Alan Stringer, 40, who had planned on taking a hike out of the Bishop area one ...

Michelle Brianna Hughes, 30, of Huntington Beach, identified herself as an Orange County sheriff’s deputy when she was stopped by officers near the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and Merrimac Way, Costa Mesa Police Department spokeswoman Roxi Fyad said. She had been driving a Chevrolet Impala equipped with California exempt license plates ...

Even as California dials down the use of fossil fuels, the state Public Utilities Commission on Thursday unanimously approved extending the life of outdated gas-fired generators at power plants in Huntington Beach, Long Beach, Redondo Beach and Oxnard. The old generators were scheduled for closure by the end of 2020. But in making their ...

Even as California dials down the use of fossil fuels, the state Public Utilities Commission on Thursday unanimously approved extending the life of outdated gas-fired generators at power plants in Huntington Beach, Long Beach, Redondo Beach and Oxnard. The old generators were scheduled for closure by the end of 2020. But in making their ...

Huntington Beach’s Chase Dodd tries to stop Orange Lutheran’s Riley Catino during the first round of the CIF-SS Division 1 boys water polo playoffs at Santiago Canyon College in Orange on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Huntington Beach defeated Orange ...