Year: 2025

A growing number of Irvine students are using electric bikes (e-bikes) to get to and from school, and for getting around town. Physicians, police officers, and emergency medical service professionals have begun raising safety concerns due to the increase and severity of e-bike accidents and injuries.

Many of these kids were not wearing helmets that protect the brain and face, which has led to major facial injuries that can require extensive reconstructive surgery to correct. All bicyclists (and e-bike riders) under the age of 18 are required by California law to wear helmets.

Last year, the City of Irvine launched a one-year pilot program for a free shuttle bus service to connect Irvine residents to parks, schools, hospitals, and shopping centers.

All of the buses are equipped with bike racks, and are fully accessible by wheelchair and other mobility aids. And riders have access to free wi-fi service.

The Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) is ranked No. 1 in California — with IUSD students...

In the face of federal and state inaction, Irvine has begun exploring the idea of creating a local plan to move highly dangerous nuclear waste now stored at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station site — located between San Clemente and Oceanside — to a more secure and safer facility.

All of the speakers agreed that the current situation at the San Onofre plant site was not intended to be permanent, and that the federal government is still decades away from having a national waste repository, originally promised for 1998.

A Statewide Special Election will be held on Tuesday, November 4th regarding Congressional Redistricting (Proposition 50).

You can also take your ballot to a post office or Vote Center and turn it in there.