Today: OC cities look to motels to help house homeless people, whistleblowers say a Santa Ana sheet metal factory is unsafe, polluting water, and pandemic made housing’s rich only richer.

Today: Is Anaheim’s resort gamble paying off for local residents? Santa Ana officials want people on buses to fight climate change, and OC supervisors make controversial hospital executive appointment.

Today: More OC school boards oppose student vaccine mandates; Santa Ana winds returning to Southern California but with less power, and there is a long road ahead to recovery from Huntington Beach oil spill.

Today: Warm, windy forecast brings more wildfire worries for Thanksgiving week; Moviegoers returning to theaters but with caution, and angry pandemic-era customers? Some fear vaccine mandates will make things worse.

Today: Orange County residents’ voting power just got reshaped for next decade; in historic vote, O.C. supervisors approve majority-Latino district, and SpaceX to give SoCal residents evening lightshow tonight.

Today: Residents upset ahead of today’s decision on County election map; Santa Ana’s rent control law is on after efforts to repeal it fail, and authorities identify source of oil sheen off Huntington Beach.

Today: Costa Mesa officials oppose proposed OC Election maps; Santa Ana officials charge community center $40K for homeless camp clean up, and OC sheriff’s reserves leader charged with $17 million fraud.

Today: OC health director publicly challenged by his bosses over no-bid contracts; contrary to popular belief, no great migration in pandemic, and Costa Mesa looks to underused motels to help meet housing goals.

Today: OC Supervisors shorten residents’ review time of proposed election maps; definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ is changing to three Covid-19 doses, and UC strike averted with ‘groundbreaking’ agreement.

Today: Board of Supervisors is expected to approve majority Latino district for 1st time; Amplify Energy absent again from state hearing on OC oil spill, and OC mayors eager for the projects the new federal infrastructure bill could fund.