Sara Cardine covers the city of Costa Mesa for the Daily Pilot. She comes from the La Cañada Valley Sun, where she spent six years as the news reporter covering La Cañada Flintridge and recently received a first-place Public Service Journalism award from the California News Publishers Assn. She’s also worked at the Pasadena Weekly, Stockton Record and Lodi-News Sentinel, which instilled in her a love for community news. (714) 966-4627
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Shopoff Realty Investments, which aquired the Magnolia Tank Farm in 2016, said the senior mortgage from Lionheart Strategic Management, LLC will allow the company to refinance its debt and start building this year.
After more than five decades as the timepiece headquarters of a family-owned enterprise since 1969, the shop on Newport Boulevard closes Monday. But the flagship location in Newport Beach will remain open.
After undergoing a screening by the City Council last June, Newport Beach-based Intracorp Homes Monday presented an amended plan for 38 four-story units on the 2.3-acre 16th Street parcel to planning commissioners and was approved.
Piecemakers Country Store was closed Jan. 31 amid bankruptcy proceedings spurred by a $4.5-million ruling for a former member who alleged the fellowship emotionally abused her and failed to pay for 20 years of labor.
Hosted by Newport Beach couple Gary and Julie Crisp, an annual Super Bowl watch party at American Legion Post 291 will offer activities for veterans and active duty Marines sensational enough to rival an NFL win.
A law prohibiting motorists from parking within 20 feet of crosswalks took effect in January 2024, offering a one-year education period before police could begin issuing citations. But in Costa Mesa, that didn’t happen.
The musical play, co-produced by Segerstom Center for the Arts and Belfast-based children’s theater company Cahoots of Northern Ireland, opens in a world premiere Saturday.
City leaders engaged in a master plan process for the 200-acre park on Tuesday considered how hobbyist uses might coexist with environmental and cultural preservation efforts.
Detected by a fire alarm at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, the cave-in took place on a portion of the Santa Ana building used as a paint shop, where artisans created scenes for the Costa Mesa theater company.
A proposal by Mayor John Stephens to allow homeowners to offer temporary shelter to those displaced by the Palisades and Eaton fires was snuffed out by concerns about nuisance properties and the city’s own housing shortage.