Irvine leaders are pushing forward with a series of audits amid questions over the city’s growing budget deficit after council members asked for a better understanding of how the spending gap happened ...

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The sound of small voices yelling “konichiwa” – Japanese for hello – drifted out of the small children’s room in the University Park Library. Inside the room, colorful patchwork quilts hung on the ...