Irvine News Archives - Page 19 of 135

August 14, 2024

City of Irvine to build $100 million municipal gym on Red Hill Avenue

The city of Irvine is moving forward with plans to build a municipal gym for around $100 million. On Tuesday, the City Council authorized the purchase of a seven-plus acre property on Red Hill Avenue...

August 14, 2024

Taco Bell is reprising its tostada, Caramel Apple Empanada and more; find out where

Taco Bell is reprising some of its menu items from decades past, but they will only be available at three restaurants in Orange County, at least for now. Beginning Thursday, Aug. 15, the Irvine-based fast...

August 13, 2024

Starbucks taps Chipotle’s Brian Niccol in Newport Beach to lead coffee chain

By Max Zimmerman | Bloomberg Starbucks has named Chipotle Mexican Grill Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol as the coffee chain’s new CEO and chairman, replacing Laxman Narasimhan after just over a year in the role....

August 12, 2024

Status Update: 99 Ranch Market opens in Tustin

99 Ranch Market is open at Larwin Square in Tustin. The Buena Park-based company debuted in late July in the former Vons at 550 E 1st St. The store was briefly a Haggen supermarket before...

August 10, 2024

Irvine-based Golden State Foods sells majority stake to private equity firm

Irvine-based Golden State Foods, a behemoth distributor to fast-food chains, is selling a controlling interest in the longtime family-run business to Lindsay Goldberg, a private equity investment firm based in New York. Neither company disclosed...

August 9, 2024

Man shot by Irvine police after fatally stabbing his mother had violent past

Irvine police have identified a knife-wielding man shot by Irvine police after he stabbed his mother to death. Paul Parvea Montazer, 37, attacked his mother, Parvin Montazer, 72, on Green Tree Lane near Coral Tree...

August 9, 2024

White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders hosts economic summit at UCI

Small business owners gathered at The Cove at UC Irvine on Thursday, Aug. 8, along with local leaders, politicians and two members of President Joe Biden’s administration to talk about how to break through the...

August 9, 2024

Hoag recruits top doctor in hospital’s push to become research leader

Kenneth Chang discovered he had a knack for inventing while doing medical missionary work in a rural Taiwanese fishing village. Short of all sorts of supplies, he recalls using fishnets for sutures, fishhooks for needles...

August 7, 2024

Disabled youth learn to ride bikes at Irvine summer camp

On a warm summer day in Orange County, loud music plays as a group of excited youth, going around in circles, are eagerly learning to ride bicycles. The participants are part of an annual summer...

August 7, 2024

Months after their arrests, UC Irvine students’ fates remain uncertain

Shenai Aini’s life, for two months, has been in limbo. Aini, 21, was arrested on May 15 during a confrontation between police and pro-Palestine protesters at UC Irvine. Of the 47 people arrested that day,...