Eric Licas covers Newport Beach for the Daily Pilot. He previously was a crime and public safety reporter and, before that, spent four years as a staff writer with the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. He has been on the ground to cover active wildfires, civil unrest and mass shootings. He was born in the Philippines, raised in the San Fernando Valley and is a Cal State Northridge alumnus.
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Committee appointments, street improvements, Buck Gully rehab greenlit by Newport Beach City Council
The items were unanimously approved as part of the City Council’s consent calendar on Tuesday.
Surf City Church has been fighting to keep its doors open since the California Pacific Conference of the United Methodist Church sued for possession of the local congregation’s property in 2022.
Drones, automated surveillance and more were points of discussion at a special meeting Friday, Jan. 31.
The antique jewelry was heavily damaged and found in a safe that was literally the only thing left standing on the Knap family’s property in the Alphabet Streets neighborhood of Pacific Palisades.
Newport Beach is slated to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on major improvements to the city’s infrastructure and services over the next several years.
Dave Miner, a 22-year veteran of the department, had been serving as acting chief of police since his predecessor, Joe Cartwright, retired at the end of 2024.
Footage posted on social media shows a small Honda SUV tailed by Santa Ana police to the Newport Pier and racing past at least two dozen people Saturday morning.
Since 2012, at least 13 applications have been submitted for licenses to teach surfing in Newport Beach, but only three have ever been approved, according to the federal lawsuit.
Most of the beach at PCH and 9th Avenue was reopened, but a portion directly beneath the landslide remained closed until further notice.
Biologists found significant blunt-force trauma on the right side of the head of a 3-year-old whale and suspect it was hit by a vessel.