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August 12, 2024

Status Update: 99 Ranch Market opens in Tustin

99 Ranch Market is open at Larwin Square in Tustin. The Buena Park-based company debuted in late July in the former Vons at 550 E 1st St. The store was briefly a Haggen supermarket before...

August 9, 2024

Man shot by Irvine police after fatally stabbing his mother had violent past

Irvine police have identified a knife-wielding man shot by Irvine police after he stabbed his mother to death. Paul Parvea Montazer, 37, attacked his mother, Parvin Montazer, 72, on Green Tree Lane near Coral Tree...

August 9, 2024

White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders hosts economic summit at UCI

Small business owners gathered at The Cove at UC Irvine on Thursday, Aug. 8, along with local leaders, politicians and two members of President Joe Biden’s administration to talk about how to break through the...

August 9, 2024

Irvine-based Golden State Foods sells majority stake to private equity firm

Irvine-based Golden State Foods, a behemoth distributor to fast-food chains, is selling a controlling interest in the longtime family-run business to Lindsay Goldberg, a private equity investment firm based in New York. Neither company disclosed...

August 9, 2024

Hoag recruits top doctor in hospital’s push to become research leader

Kenneth Chang discovered he had a knack for inventing while doing medical missionary work in a rural Taiwanese fishing village. Short of all sorts of supplies, he recalls using fishnets for sutures, fishhooks for needles...

August 7, 2024

Disabled youth learn to ride bikes at Irvine summer camp

On a warm summer day in Orange County, loud music plays as a group of excited youth, going around in circles, are eagerly learning to ride bicycles. The participants are part of an annual summer...

August 7, 2024

Months after their arrests, UC Irvine students’ fates remain uncertain

Shenai Aini’s life, for two months, has been in limbo. Aini, 21, was arrested on May 15 during a confrontation between police and pro-Palestine protesters at UC Irvine. Of the 47 people arrested that day,...

August 6, 2024

‘Big light in this dark world’: Friends mourn disabled Irvine man who police say was stabbed by ex-caretaker

The caregiver accused of fatally stabbing his disabled, former client in the victim’s Woodbridge home Monday did so “out of the blue,” having no known dispute with the man, Irvine police said on Tuesday, August...

August 5, 2024

Construction begins on long-awaited $25 million Irvine animal shelter upgrades

After much ado, work has begun to renovate and expand the Irvine Animal Care Center on Oak Canyon. For years, residents and city officials sought upgrades for the decades-old shelter, but planning took far longer...

August 6, 2024

Disco lights, fog machine decorate trespassers’ makeshift home at Great Park’s former Marine station

A makeshift living space featuring numerous amenities and packed with allegedly stolen items at the former Marine Corps Air Station at the Great Park in Irvine was dismantled after authorities discovered it last week. Disco...