The Newport Beach Police Department Traffic Unit will be conducting a DUI/Drivers License Checkpoint on Friday, August 28th, 2015 at an undisclosed location in Newport between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. DUI Checkpoints are claimed to reduce drunk driving mostly by deterrent, but also serve to actively arrest those who are driving under the influence. This is a good …

The final annual Grunion Run is happening this weekend! Grunion are a species of fish that spawn on the beaches after new or full moons during the summertime, and joining in to watch or participate in the grunion run is a famous pasttime for our long history of Southern California beach residents. This segment of spawning is estimated as the following: Sa 9:40 …

Today is National Dog Day! My first dog was a stray poodle we adopted called “Licker” because when we found him he was so grateful, he kept licking everyone for the next several months. My second dog was a stray black lab that we named “Baby”, because she was so young when we first saw her (she was running with …

Thank you for all the tremendous support you have given my voice over the last few years (has it really been that long?). We’ve had some very significant events! We defeated Dixon’s “Lights Out At 11pm”, we saved our small businesses, got our historic fire rings back, and we raised the very first dollars for the Ben Carlson Memorial (and …

Monday morning, a rare oarfish was found on the shores of Catalina.  The oarfish was the biggest oarfish ever found in the area, measuring 15 feet!  Now, 15 feet is pretty long, but it’s not the longest, right?  After all, on June 3rd of this year (just before the magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Japan on the 8th of June), there …

If you’ve been following our Facebook feed, you will see that we’ve had TONS of updates so far this week.  The coolest one?  Being the second-ever partner for Google’s Waze service.  Here’s how you can join our team! Open Waze, then 1) Click on “My Waze”, 2) Click on Teams 3) then click on SaveNewport! Yes, I realize that the icon is …

The violent and homeless troublemaker who calls himself “Sarge” was arrested last week on felony burglary charges on a commercial building. This is the same man who was arrested just a few weeks ago for strong-armed robbery on a woman, stealing the contents of her purse. Businesses throughout the area now have restraining orders on him, legally requiring him to say 30ft …

You asked for it, and you got it! I am excited to announce that– due in large part to our tremendous local traction– SaveNewport has just inked paperwork to finalize our official partnership deal with Google’s Waze service– only the second of such partnerships in the nation! This deal has allowed us to create a new, permanently dynamic page which …

BREAKING: The hit and run driver who hit a 14 year old girl on her bicycle last night on Balboa Peninsula has turned himself in.  Anthony Michael George, 36, was booked on suspicion of felony hit-and-run.  His champagne-colored Mercedes was impounded earlier today. The victim is reportedly in stable condition, but does have a skull fracture from the incident that is …

UPDATE @3:35pm: Local Newport resident, Sara Lunsford, who reported the car, had heard about the incident from the news in the morning.  When she went for a run she noticed a car with minor front-end damage on the drivers side and a windshield which she said looked like “honestly, a body had hit it. It was pushed in and shattered on the …