The smoke from one beach fire pit generates the same pollution as a heavy-duty diesel truck traveling 564 miles, according to air quality experts who are considering banning the popular pits.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic.

Orange County residents gathered Friday to participate in an ongoing debate about a Southern California tradition—beach bonfires.

Moorlach compliments her but would prefer that an Orange County person, rather than L.A. transplant, replace him.

It's a good thing Lindsay Lohan blew off Morningside Recovery for the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage because the Newport Beach rehab may have closed with her in it!Following an Orange County ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The team of Vivante on the Coast, a luxury retirement community in Southern California, was honored by the Orange County Alzheimer’s Association as 2013 Corporate Partner.

NEWPORT BEACH - Police say a detective who died in an off-duty crash in Orange County was legally drunk, wasn't wearing a seat belt and was texting in the moments before impact.

Shohet Ear Associates, the first practice to offer the SoundBite™ Hearing System in Orange County, will be demonstrating the SoundBite Hearing System to the public at their Newport Beach Office.

NEWPORT BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Temperatures in the 80s and 90s at Orange County beaches on Friday drew residents looking to cool off and escape the inland heat. “Redlands is really hot today,” said Rebecca Pedersen. [...]