“The land in question is situated in the vicinity of Batim lake, a notified wetland, and a part of it falls within its buffer zone, a vital area that is crucial for the preservation of migratory ...

The much-lauded “Be Well” partnership between Orange County and the nonprofit Mind OC to provide mental health and substance abuse services for the poor appears to be collapsing. The Orange ...

A civilian employee of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department admitted Wednesday, Nov. 20 to forging tens of thousands of dollars worth of checks and fraudulently using credit cards that were in ...

The Ocean City library was packed Monday night as residents heard from a developer who described his plans to build a hotel to replace Gillian's Wonderland Pier on the boardwalk. Reaction from the ...

Orange County is still tallying votes, but overall, the results are clear — O.C. is more purple (purple-er?) than ever. LAist talked to political scientists and analyzed trends to come up with ...

OCEAN CITY, N.J. (WPVI) -- Residents in Ocean City attended a 3rd Ward meeting on Monday night. It ended with intense comments regarding the current plans for the shuttered Wonderland Pier property.

Ocean City leaders will soon be faced with a decision about whether to approve a luxury hotel at the site of Gillian's Wonderland Pier, the boardwalk fixture that closed in October after nearly a ...

"It's because there are places we want to go in the solar system to look for life, and we think life needs water." A swarm of tiny robots destined to search for life on a faraway moon recently ...

The Orange County Health Care Agency is canceling a $95 million contract for Mind OC to oversee future services at a campus under construction in Irvine – nearly three months after firing the ...

The researchers also created ocean-degradable plastics using polysaccharides that form cross-linked salt bridges with guanidinium monomers. Plastics like these can be used in 3D printing as well ...

The Indian Ocean "gravity hole" is a region where Earth's mass is reduced, leading to weak gravitational pull, lower-than-average sea levels and a puzzle scientists have only just begun to solve ...

A vast 'gravity hole' in the Indian Ocean, where sea levels dip significantly due to weaker gravity, has finally been explained. Scientists discovered that ancient remnants of the Tethys Ocean ...