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October 30, 2025

Fryer: What we’re likely to see in the CIF-SS football playoff pairings

The CIF Southern Section football playoff brackets will be released Sunday morning. The first thing to know is that teams are placed into one the Southern Section’s 14 playoff divisions according to how the teams...

October 31, 2025

Amazon cutting 760 corporate jobs in Southern California

Amazon, which announced plans this week to reduce its global corporate workforce by about 14,000 jobs, says it is laying off 760 jobs in Southern California beginning in January as part of a shakeup driven...

October 5, 2025

UC Irvine raises more than $2.4 billion in fundraising campaign, considered largest in Orange County history

UC Irvine has concluded its decade-long Brilliant Future campaign, raising more than $2.4 billion, university leaders announced Saturday, Oct. 4, which they say is the largest philanthropic effort in Orange County history. The campaign, which...

October 6, 2025

Hoag physicians see campus expansion project as opportunity

Hoag leaders make a bold promise as they prepare to open the hospital’s $1 billion Sun Family Campus in Irvine next September: Come to Hoag and you won’t have to travel anywhere else for care....

October 6, 2025

Status Update: New stores open at Mission Viejo mall, San Clemente outlets

Simon, the property owner of the Shops at Mission Viejo, broke ground Sept. 18 on its expansion project for the 49-year-old mall. The construction work, which will add new retail space on the mall’s southeast...

October 6, 2025

Orange County football Top 25: Corona del Mar rises to No. 10 in Week 7

ORANGE COUNTY FOOTBALL TOP 25 POLL Notable this week: Corona del Mar (6-0) moves into the Top 10 after a 33-10 win over then-No. 8 San Juan Hills. … Crean Lutheran (6-0) climbs to No....

October 7, 2025

Raise your glass: Whiskey festival coming to Irvine

Reserve your Uber rides home posthaste. Nearly 20 top whiskey brands will gather in front of Bosscat Kitchen in Irvine for the open-air Orange County Whiskey Festival. The event, happening Wednesday, Oct. 15, will offer...

October 7, 2025

Steve Fryer’s Orange County football Top 35 rankings, Oct. 7

Here is how I voted this week in the Orange County Top 25, plus teams I consider to be in the Nos. 26-35 range. FRYER’S TOP 25 1. Mater Dei 4-1 overall record 2. Mission...

October 10, 2025

Two Nobel Prizes at UC Irvine in one day: 30 years later, the moment still resonates

To understand why Oct. 11, 1995, was such a big deal for UC Irvine and two of the school’s best-known scientists – the late Sherwood “Sherry” Rowland, a radiochemist who theorized that man-made stuff was...

October 11, 2025

Football roundup: Servite, Dana Hills, Villa Park, Brea Olinda win in Week 7

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Kalé Murphy threw for 197 yards with two touchdowns for Servite in a 43-26 win over JSerra in a Trinity League game Friday...

Fryer: What we’re likely to see in the CIF-SS football playoff pairings

Amazon cutting 760 corporate jobs in Southern California

UC Irvine raises more than $2.4 billion in fundraising campaign, considered largest in Orange County history

Hoag physicians see campus expansion project as opportunity

Status Update: New stores open at Mission Viejo mall, San Clemente outlets

Orange County football Top 25: Corona del Mar rises to No. 10 in Week 7

Raise your glass: Whiskey festival coming to Irvine

Steve Fryer’s Orange County football Top 35 rankings, Oct. 7

Two Nobel Prizes at UC Irvine in one day: 30 years later, the moment still resonates

Football roundup: Servite, Dana Hills, Villa Park, Brea Olinda win in Week 7

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