San Juan Capistrano News

California Highway Patrol officers plan to ramp up enforcement on Ortega Highway over the extended Memorial Day weekend with the goal of preventing injuries and deaths to motorcyclists as well as other drivers.

While Chicago works to establish itself as the camera-enforcement capital of the United States, with electric eyes writing tickets at 190 intersections, and speed cameras set to start clicking this year, another city, San Diego, has scrapped red light cameras altogether.

Do you own a business in San Juan Capistrano? The state agency that oversees sales tax collection may be coming for a visit soon.

Mission San Juan Capistrano sits atop 10 acres of lush gardens and cool fountains, cloistered by old adobe walls, offering visitors a reprieve from the sights and sounds of a busy world.

Orange County Sheriff's deputies arrested two employees for possible sex crimes in an undercover sting at a San Juan Capistrano day spa, the chief of police reported Monday.

Under warm blue skies on Saturday, the " Battle of The Mariachis " started at 11 a.m. Mission San Juan Capistrano Executive Director Mechelle Lawrence Adams offered the welcome and ntroductions.

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A caller stated that his vehicle was at a repair shop in San Juan Capistrano when his insurance company informed him that someone drove it, crashed it and returned it to the shop.

CEO Larry Miller, a Southern Californian from the South Bay, says business is booming and he hopes he can play some part in reviving the local economy by bringing in more jobs.

By Debra Auerbach for CareerBuilder Have you ever had an itch to quit your job and instead do work that makes a real difference in the world? We've compiled a list of seven jobs that help people live a better life - from the buildings they work and live in, to the energy that fuels their homes, to the air they breathe.

In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo provided by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Alison Macfarlane, second from right, the chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, listens to Richard St.

The U.S. women's national volleyball team will host Japan in three matches this summer in the inaugural USA Volleyball Cup, a new effort to bring elite volleyball to the United States.

At 8:03 p.m. Friday, a caller reported a loud party in the 30700 block of Paseo El Arco.

A Newport Beach-based child psychiatrist who bought an ocean view lot in San Juan Capistrano for a song six years ago finally got the green light Tuesday to build his dream home.

A state Supreme Court ruling Monday upholding the city of Riverside's ban on storefront medical marijuana dispensaries will likely buttress a similar ordinances, prompting one San Juan Capistrano councilman to explore options for keeping the city free of dispensaries.

A rescue mission to save the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans was gutted amid the Benghazi siege, a "whistleblower" will testify Wednesday, according to the head of the House oversight panel.

During the week of Sunday, May 5 through Saturday, May 11, Caltrans will not perform any nighttime closures on the I-5 / Ortega Highway interchange in San Juan Capistrano.. Crews will work during the day performing construction activities behind k-rail. Be sure to visit www.ortega.dot.ca.gov and check out the Google Map on the "Construction ... (more)

A report of a hit-and run turned into a high-speed chase in a San Juan Capistrano neighborhood Monday night.

Owners of the independent Granada Books opened its door for tours Thursday at 1224 State Street, a few doors from the Granada Theatre.

By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent developed by four co-inventors for a "process monitor for monitoring an integrated circuit chip." The co-inventors are Lawrence M. Burns, Laguna Hills, Calif., Leonard Dauphinee, Irvine, Calif., Ramon A. Gomez, San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and ... (more)