Orange County News

Climate & Environment

How Orange County gets PFAS out of its drinking water

Water utilities across the country will have until 2029 to comply with EPA limits on "forever chemicals" in drinking water. Orange County got a head start.

Climate & Environment

Weather continues to cool down for the weekend

It's starting to feel like fall!

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Civics & Democracy

Reform bills inspired by LAist investigation are before Newsom for final approval

The proposed ethics and transparency reforms are in response to LAist’s investigation of millions of unaccounted for tax dollars directed by O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do to a group his daughter was helping lead.

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Civics & Democracy

OC Supervisors remove Andrew Do from his board committee assignments

The move comes more than nine months after LAist first started reporting on issues with public funding he directed to a nonprofit where his daughter served in leadership roles.

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Civics & Democracy

OC supervisors to vote on whether to remove Andrew Do from his committees

Board Chair Don Wagner moved for the vote as Supervisor Andrew Do faces escalating calls to resign in the wake of an FBI search and long-running LAist investigation.

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Health

After audit raises dozens of concerns, OC cuts short a key mental health services contract

The audit, obtained by LAist through a public records request, looked at the county's Be Well campus in the city of Orange. The director of the O.C.’s Health Care Agency tells LAist the county will terminate the contract.

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Civics & Democracy

Huntington Beach calls for OC Supervisor Andrew Do's resignation

Do has faced increasing calls to step down amid an unfolding scandal involving fraud allegations.

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Education

New high school sports rules mandate more breaks, water, cancellations in heat

California schools must monitor temperature and adjust practices and games accordingly to keep student athletes safe.

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Climate & Environment

Will private donors help California pay for new wildlife crossings?

A new effort to create more wildlife crossings in Los Angeles and throughout the state seeks to raise hundreds of millions in private funding.

Civics & Democracy

Federal agencies suspend bank accounts for VAS, Perfume River and Peter Pham

Federal authorities have frozen the bank accounts for Viet America Society, the nonprofit at the center of a high-profile controversy over what happened to millions of taxpayer dollars, according to reporting from the Orange County Register.

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Civics & Democracy

Andrew Do is a no-show at OC board meeting as calls intensify for him to resign

Board members were informed that Do “will likely miss a number of meetings in the future."

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Civics & Democracy

Two fellow OC supervisors call for Andrew Do to be forced out of power and resign immediately

Also on Monday, Don Wagner, who chairs the board, said he was scheduling a vote to remove Do from his committee assignments.

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