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The Line, Bridge, and Airport fires have been active since Sept. 6, with the Bridge Fire the largest fire currently blazing in California.

Portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties have been engulfed in wildfires, most of which are still burning out of control uncomfortably close to the University of La Verne.

The University of La Verne’s Regional and Online Campuses will be transitioning from a campus model to a regional-serving model beginning with the Ontario and Irvine campuses as their leases end. 

Crude oil covers a seagull in Huntington Beach after an oil spill off the coast of Southern California on Monday.

Orange County’s 2017 Point-In-Time count showed 57 percent growth in the homeless population since 2013. The number of homeless, or “unsheltered” people has greatly risen in recent years, and although the problem has been obvious, there is still no long-term solution for the issue in sight. Point-In-Time is a calculation of people who are without permanent residence on a particular night, which is usually assessed near the end of January each year. Currently, the coastal county is fighting to remove those encamped along the Santa Ana River and find proper housing for them in cities such as Laguna Niguel, Huntington Beach and Irvine.

A 20-year-old man from Orange County who raped a 3-year-old girl last summer will face a punishment that certainly does not fit the crime.