By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager
The next meeting of the Newport Beach City Council will be on Tuesday, March 11. The full agenda is available here: https://newportbeach.legistar1.com/newportbeach/meetings/2025/3/3739_A_City_Council_25-03-11_Agenda.pdf?id=64ca6b68-c8f6-4e07-a3c9-291f8fe499b3.
A Study Session will begin at 4 p.m. Agenda items include:
Capital Improvement Program (CIP) early look. City staff will present new...
Save the date for the 30th Annual Balboa Island Parade on Sunday June 1 at 11 a.m. Celebrate the opening of Fire Station #4 30 years ago.
The parade theme this year is “Celebrating 30 Years on Balboa Island: A Tribute to our First Responders.” Grand Marshall for this year’s...
For the past 25 years, the Newport Beach Film Festival – one of the largest luxury lifestyle film festivals in the United States – has included a dedicated UK film showcase during its eight-day program, as well as an Honors Award event that celebrates cinematic achievements.
And for the past...
What is the state of Newport Beach?
Find out at the next Wake Up! Newport meeting on Thursday, March 6, when special guest Newport Beach Mayor Joe Stapleton talks about the past present and future of Newport Beach.
Mayor Joe Stapleton was elected to the Newport Beach City Council in November...
Join the Corona del Mar Chamber of Commerce, along with community friends and neighbors, for an informative monthly discussion group called Good Morning CdM featuring hot topics in the community pertinent to both business and residential interests.
For the March 13 Good Morning CdM event, the featured guests are Newport...
By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager
On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the City Council will consider a $2.1 million, five-year agreement with BRINC Drones, Inc. for seven public safety drones, a significant part of the Newport Beach Police Department (NBPD) technology upgrades that began last year.
The drone program, if approved,...
By Grace Leung, Newport Beach City Manager
The next meeting of the Newport Beach City Council will be on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. The full agenda is available here: https://www.newportbeachca.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/77121/72.
Agenda items include:
Consideration of a $2.1 million, 5-year agreement with BRINC Drones Inc., of Seattle, for public safety...
The Newport Beach Public Library is on financially sound ground, but that didn’t stop a group of Chapman University students from locking up a Little Free Library on Orchid Street in Newport Beach last week to protest against library funding cuts across the country, including Orange County.
Nearly identical displays...
According to data provided by CAL Fire, 13 of the largest wildfires in California, seven of the deadliest wildfires and 15 of the most destructive in the state’s history have occurred since 2015, leading Assemblymember Diane Dixon (R-Newport Beach) to introduce AB 623 and AB 624 last week as...
It wasn’t just the perfect storm—it was the perfect fire storm.
The recent, all-consuming and catastrophic fires that stampeded through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena areas of Los Angeles in a three-week horror scene would have dwarfed even in the most exaggerated Hollywood disaster flick.
Hurricane-force winds cast giant embers so...
