Nineteen Portola Pilot staff members competed at the Orange County Journalism Education Association Write-Offs, winning second place for Online Best of Show and bringing home eight individual awards on...

As many students know, high school is difficult. Students work very hard for good grades and to keep their GPAs high. To get an 89 percent on an assignment that students worked very hard on can be in some...

Seventeen people were killed in a school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 14. Nikolas Cruz, 19, admitted to committing the shooting, according to CNN. Cruz arrived...

North and South Korea have decided to put politics aside and create the first-ever multi-country Olympic women’s hockey team under a unified name of Korea (COR) on Jan. 18. With both North and South...

Coins clink as they are clumsily forced through a narrow opening of a blush pink ceramic pig. From a young age, children use their piggy banks to learn how to earn and save money. As high schoolers, students...

Girl Scouts selling cookies deserve a pay raise. With every box sold, Girl Scouts of Orange County (GSOC) Council receives $2.67, almost four times as much as what each troop receive. For each box, girls...

The Wounded Warrior Project club hosted three World War II veterans to speak about their experiences on Feb. 10 in the Portola High theater. These veterans include Bill Hamilton, Loren Major and Jim Robertson....

The following recipes are a continuation of a longer article that can be found here.   Raspberry Layered Cake:   This cake takes it a step further from the cupcakes with two layers...

A rare phenomenon known as the super blue blood moon, a combination of a supermoon, blue moon and lunar eclipse, appeared across the United States on the morning of Jan. 31. According to Fox News, the...

Super Bowl LII finished with Philadelphia Eagles taking the win 41-33 against New England Patriots on Feb. 4, and while the game was memorable, companies paid large amounts of money to advertise their...