Orange County News

The U.S. men's soccer team poses for a photo on the field in two rows.

Explore LA®

How to watch the US Men’s soccer team practice in Irvine before the World Cup

The team’s first practice will be open to the public on June 8. It’s limited to about 7,000 people. You can get free tickets through a lottery that closes Monday.

An overhead view of single-family homes.

Housing & Homelessness

Huntington Beach faces $50k monthly fine for ignoring state housing mandate

A San Diego judge ordered the penalties earlier this month after the city ran out of legal appeals.

A shiny pinball machine in a room. The room has lots of pinball machines.

Explore LA®

An auction house in OC deals in pinball and arcade machines. A special batch is up for grabs Sunday

Chris "Captain" Campbell runs Captain's Auction House in Anaheim. On Sunday, Ryan Adams' collection of pinball and arcade machines is up for bid.

Aerial view shows the ocean in the foreground with a long pier with a red-roofed building at the end. Beyond the beach you you see homes and buildings.

Civics & Democracy

Huntington Beach's MAGA coalition is fracturing over 'cronyism'

Huntington Beach’s MAGA majority showed signs of fracturing over recent allegations of self-dealing. Some say the problem is pervasive.

A white man with a shaved head wearing sunglasses and running shoes stands next to a paved bike path on one side, and a concrete culvert with a small creek running through it and some vegetation on the other.

Civics & Democracy

OC halts use of chemicals that critics say poison the county’s creeks and coast

A tiny OC environmental group used election jostling to score a big win.

Looking down a train track with waves crashing into boulders on the right hand side, a slope with palm trees and houses on top on the left side, and an excavator about to pick up a boulder next to the tracks in the distance.

Civics & Democracy

San Clemente voters will decide on a sales tax to pay for more sand

If approved, the sales tax increase will bring in $15 million annually.

Two people ride skateboards as one of them records on their phone. A large building in the background has signage above an entrance that reads "Radio Korea."

Arts & Entertainment

For some in Koreatown, Radio Korea’s move to Orange County feels bigger than a change of address

Former employees and longtime listeners say the station’s departure carries emotional weight in a neighborhood where it became a lifeline.

A man with light skin tone and short brown hair wearing a gray hoodie stands in front of several large pieces of paper tacked to a white board. The center sheet reads "What tools do we have individually to repair our democracy? What tools do we have collectively to repair our democracy?"

Education

Civics education is struggling. How one South LA school teaches ‘nitty-gritty’ work of democracy

At Ánimo Pat Brown Charter High School, government class is an opportunity to register to vote, meet local elected officials and shape their community.