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April 29, 2023

A look at Orange County’s baseball teams and the CIF-SS playoffs

The CIF Southern Section baseball regular season is finished. The playoff brackets will be released Monday at 10 a.m. Teams qualified for the playoffs by earning one of their league’s guaranteed playoff berths. The top two...

April 28, 2023

Sega of America workers in Irvine file for union election

Workers with Sega of America in Irvine have voted to unionize and have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a union election as they lobby for higher wages, improved benefits...

April 28, 2023

Real estate news: Apartment developer buys offices near Outlets at Orange for $22.5M

A 150,161-square-foot office building just blocks from the Outlets at Orange shopping center has been sold to an investor looking to convert the property into a multifamily project, according to the brokerage Newmark. City Centre...

April 26, 2023

UK blocks Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision deal

By Katharine Gemmell | Bloomberg Microsoft’s $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard was vetoed by Britain’s antitrust watchdog, in a potentially fatal blow for the gaming industry’s biggest ever deal. The Competition and Markets Authority...

April 25, 2023

Irvine will be home to country’s first all-electric hospital

The country’s first all-electric medical campus should be fully open in Irvine by 2025. Spanning more than 800,000 square feet, and under the UCI Health umbrella, the medical campus will be powered by a central...

April 24, 2023

Could Irvine’s plans to go all-electric in most new buildings be jeopardized by federal ruling?

A federal court may have dealt a blow to Irvine’s plans to have most new buildings in the city be all-electric. A federal appeals court last week ruled that Berkeley cannot enforce a natural gas...

April 24, 2023

EV-maker Rivian lays off 239 Orange County workers

Irvine-based Rivian Automotive has laid off 239 workers at its Irvine, Costa Mesa and Tustin operations as part of a cost-cutting measure to reduce its headcount by 6%. Notices sent to the state Employment Development Department...

April 24, 2023

Orange County baseball Top 25: Santa Margarita moves up to No. 1, April 24

This week’s Orange County high school baseball rankings. Notable this week: Santa Margarita is back in the No. 1 spot in the Orange County rankings for the final week of the regular season. … There...

April 22, 2023

Huntington Beach and Newport Harbor will get early rematch in CIF-SS boys volleyball playoffs

There will be Huntington Beach vs. Newport Harbor III in the first round of games in the CIF Southern Section boys volleyball playoffs. The decades-long rivals meet in the Division 1 contest at Newport Harbor...

April 21, 2023

Real estate news: Military optics maker Maztech shifting HQ to another Irvine facility

A manufacturer of military and commercial optical systems has signed a lease in Irvine for its new headquarters. Maztech Industries, with offices on Peter Canyon Road in the city, will occupy the 17,500-square-foot facility at...