Sara Cardine

5 days ago | latimes.com | Sara Cardine

Costa Mesa officials this week rejected a cannabis dispensary planned for a busy Harbor Boulevard retail center, after business owners and residents complained there is an over-concentration of pot shops in the neighborhood and called the applicant’s moral character into question. A played host to a dispute between Keith Scheinberg, of Newport Beach-based RDK Group Holdings, LLC, and Jayne Flinn, who owns the Harbor Place shopping center directly south of the site, located at 1912 Harbor Blvd.

6 days ago | latimes.com | Sara Cardine

Heidi Zuckerman speaks during OCMA’s grand opening in Costa Mesa in 2022. The Laguna Beach resident announced this week she will step down at the end of the year. Heidi Zuckerman — who helmed the transition of the Orange County Museum of Art from a regional exhibition space to a capstone institution in Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts — announced this week she will step down as chief executive in December.

1 week ago | modbee.com | Sara Cardine

Two people died in separate Huntington Beach incidents Wednesday morning - a fatal collision involving a pedestrian near Beach Boulevard at Talbert Avenue and an apparent suicide about one- half mile north of the pier - that are both under investigation by police. Huntington Beach police spokeswoman Jessica Cuchilla confirmed a male pedestrian was declared dead at the scene of the vehicle collision, which happened shortly after midnight.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Sara Cardine

Two people died in separate Huntington Beach incidents Wednesday morning — a fatal collision involving a pedestrian near Beach Boulevard at Talbert Avenue and an apparent suicide about one-half mile north of the pier — that are both under investigation by police. Huntington Beach police spokeswoman Jessica Cuchilla confirmed a male pedestrian was declared dead at the scene of the vehicle collision, which happened shortly after midnight.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Sara Cardine

The Greater Irvine Chamber of Commerce was all set in January to recognize organizations, businesses and individuals whose innovative work makes a meaningful difference in healthcare and patient outcomes, when a mysterious last-minute edit to the event’s program was made. One of the recipients due to be honored — Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties — was quietly removed from all public mention associated with the Jan. 16 ceremony.