Southern California's National Scholastic Skateboarding League, which originated in Orange County, held its second competition of the season at the Volcom Skatepark in Costa Mesa on Friday, featuring five middle school teams and six high school teams...

The city has upgraded a crosswalk at Mitchell Avenue and Utt Drive. The project, which cost $74,305, was funded 90 percent by the state's Safe Routes to School program. Upgrades include an in-pavement lighted crosswalk adjacent to Beswick Elementary,...

LAGUNA NIGUEL – In the four years Julia Moss has been playing the viola in her school orchestra, she's felt the threat of funding losses for music programs. So she's vowing to do her part to ensure kids get to keep playing. Last fall, the...

MISSION VIEJO – Barcelona Hills Elementary is closing in June, but not because it's an underperforming school or because neighborhood parents are demanding sweeping changes. The 34-year-old Mission Viejo school, a 2010 California Distinguished...

The instructor of an ROP class from San Clemente High School that launched two model sailboats into the Pacific in hopes that they would reach Hawaii canceled his planned trip to San Clemente Island on Saturday to try to retrieve one that apparently...

At 12:12 p.m. every Monday, something magical happens to 26 high school students who have developmental disabilities. Mainstream students from across the San Clemente High School campus file into Room S-3a and join the special-needs teens for lunch....