Dana Point News

Feb. 09--Laguna Niguel city staff must decide whether three council members have conflicts of interest when it comes to passing a state-mandated ordinance.

Slideshow: Ocean Institute presents Girls in Ocean Science conference for middle-school students who could be the marine experts of tomorrow.

World renown author and spiritual teacher Fr. Richard Rohr is joined with John McAndrew, Director Spiritual Care at Betty Ford Center, Ranch Mirage, CA for a special St.

Children's librarian Carolyn Hopkins looks back as she closes the book on her nearly 40-year career with Orange County libraries.

ROP class's trimaran was on a commercial fishing boat near San Clemente Island. It will be returned to the class instructor.

City officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to celebrate the opening of the new Marriott Residence Inn at Stonehill Drive and Camino Capistrano.

Emails the Capistrano Unified School District solicited for public input into the proposed boundary changes for trustee areas never reached the trustees before they selected one of the maps.

Laguna Beach ordinance passes on a unanimous City Council vote. Dana Point's council approves bans on plastic bags and plastic foam containers on 4-1 votes.

September 24, 2011 - Army Sgt. Tyler Holtz , 22, of Dana Point, Calif., a Joint Base Lewis McChord Ranger, was killed in an attack against insurgents in Wardak Province.

Nearly 500 lovers of jazz and fine dining gathered over the weekend at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point for a two-day extravaganza, netting more than $180,000 for the institute's awarding-winning educational programs for children.

Drunk in public. 5:06 p.m. Camino Capistrano and Calle Loma. A caller asked deputies to check for a beer-drinking woman with a large dog who was sitting on a bench at a nearby park.

Winners from the city's Capistrano Unified School District campuses will compete for District Teacher of the Year, to be announced in March.

Laguna Beach and Dana Point will consider ordinances Tuesday night that would prohibit businesses from handing out single-use plastic bags to customers.

CommVault Systems Inc has managed to skirt rampant consolidation in the fast-growing storage software market, and CEO Bob Hammer is planning to keep it that way.

Norm Denton, a commissioner since 1997, says he will run in November for the seat to be vacated by Mayor Lara Anderson because of term limits.

Police received a call for help after a local employee said a customer tried to beat him up.

Sitting on a double lot just off the oceanfront with unobstructed ocean and golf course views is the largest MLS-listed home for sale in Dana Point .

On Thursday evening, the Orange County Fire Authority will recognize its "Best and Bravest" during its annual award ceremony at the Irvine Marriot.

The R.A.R.E. Project and the Global Genes Project, both rare disease advocacy organizations based in Dana Point, will launch a month-long campaign in February to raise awareness for patients suffering from uncommon diseases, culminating in World Rare Disease Day on Feb.

Clarey Castner, CEO of the high-powered University of Nebraska Foundation, is no longer with the foundation, a university regent said Wednesday.