Orange County Register

2 days ago | ocregister.com | Pat Maio

A week-long strike involving over 200 workers at a Keurig Dr Pepper plant in Victorville expanded Monday to include hundreds more people at five other facilities in Southern California. The workers with Teamsters Local 896 authorized a strike May 5 after their three-year contract expired April 1, according to Christian Castro, a spokesman for the Teamsters in Southern California.

2 days ago | ocregister.com | Cathy Thomas

Memorial Day marks the unofficial opening of grilling season. Although our weather is conducive to using the barbecue all year round, cooking and entertaining outdoors takes on new meaning as the days get warmer and longer. Eating delicious food outdoors is part of the joyful holiday tradition. The pace needs to feel relaxed. Who is better to guide the feasting prep than celebrity chef, restaurateur, and television personality, Michael Symon?

2 days ago | ocregister.com | Jon Lansner

California is world’s No. 4 economy. How do other states rank?

2 days ago | ocregister.com | Kaitlyn Schallhorn

Could extending substitute teaching permits help alleviate the shortage in California’s schools? That’s the plan nearly every member of California’s Assembly backed in a vote last week. The Assembly, in a bipartisan vote with zero no votes, agreed to advance a bill from Assemblymember Avelino Valencia, D-Anaheim, that bumps up the time substitute teachers can spend in a single classroom to 60 days, up from 30. The same increase had been implemented during the pandemic, but it expired last year.

2 days ago | ocregister.com | Douglas E. Schoen

A meeting between the President of the United States and Prime Minister of Canada is rarely newsworthy. But, with tension between the two nations at the highest levels since the 1800’s, President Trump’s meeting with newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney was worth watching. Put another way, a meeting that should have been routine, even anodyne, has become important, in large part only because the two leaders did not fight in the Oval Office.