After Costa Mesa’s planning commission narrowly approved permits allowing a new cannabis store, city council members reversed the decision by approving an appeal against the new business.

Costa Mesa officials this week rejected a cannabis dispensary planned for a busy Harbor Boulevard retail center, after business owners and residents complained there is an over-concentration of ...

Costa Mesa has gone coastal, that is to say the Mustangs have felt quite at home in the sand while chasing a bit of history on the beach volleyball courts this spring. The mission was completed on ...

On Sunday, while looking into a domestic violence and carjacking incident that had occurred a day prior, a police officer obtained an arrest warrant on the suspect and issued an interagency alert, ...

is that theater itself can be messy — sometimes wonderfully so — and it’s satisfying to encounter it alive and kicking once again in Costa Mesa.

Costa Mesa residents are raising concerns that cannabis shops could be oversaturating the city after planning commissioners approved another retailer, inching the city closer to its 35-store limit.

On Friday night, April 11, 2025, at the Costa Mesa Police Department’s DUI and driver’s license checkpoint on Harbor Blvd. south of Sunflower Ave., a total of 469 drivers were contacted. The ...