2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (532+ words) After years of litigation and anticipation, Camarillo is getting its own Costco Wholesale outpost. Michael Okuma, Costco’s director of real estate development, confirmed that the newest warehouse is scheduled to open to shoppers on Oct. 30. Located on West Ventura Boulevard…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1766+ words) Cheryl Palumbo was out shopping for herself and her husband last week to pick up some items she had forgotten the day before at the supermarket — and couldn’t quite believe her bill. The 78-year-old retiree had already spent $150 and here…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (785+ words) When Costa Mesa leaders were considering in 2021 how an influx of retail cannabis sales tax revenue under Measure Q might benefit the city’s denizens, they envisioned a program that would help first-time homebuyers enter an otherwise formidable housing market. As…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (533+ words) Brooks Orradre is a senior at Southern Methodist University, studying both psychology and business. In a way, the Newport Beach native has melded both into a business enterprise he recently began — even if it involves an industry he wasn’t previously…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (488+ words) Help is on the way for California’s film and TV postproduction workers. A bill, known as AB 2319 and aimed at supporting the industry’s editors, sound mixers, composers and visual effects artists, passed the Senate on Sunday, marking the state’s first-ever…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (1225+ words) In 2025, a New York resident filed a lawsuit against JetBlue Airlines. The lawsuit included a screenshot of a tweet from X. In it, a user complained to JetBlue that they were trying to “make it to a funeral” but that flight…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (675+ words) The business progression for Danielle Whisenand has taken her from working out of a back house at her Newport Heights home to a warehouse on the west side of the Costa Mesa. She was more than happy to move Backhouse…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (356+ words) Southern California residents blasting air conditioning to get through the summer heat waves will get some relief this month, though not from the 100-degree temperatures. Edison is providing a $72 climate credit on summer electricity bills as a part of a…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1645+ words) Joe Porter toured the squat apartment building in L.A.’s Koreatown five years ago, excited to be leaving his parents’ house in Arkansas. The rent on the studio was cheap — about $1,500 a month — and the leasing agent, he said, told him…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (469+ words) Dear Liz: My mail with a check to the IRS was stolen from inside the post office (I dropped it into the internal wall slot). The envelope was pre-addressed to the IRS P.O. box. The payee on the check was altered....