The City of Irvine halted a single-use plastics ban proposal on Nov. 28 which would prohibit these items in food and retail services if enacted, according to the OC Register.  This recent ordinance...

So you’ve devised a villain character, but you don’t know what propels them. What do you do then? Most authors tend to take the tragic backstory approach, but a tragic backstory is not a necessary...

What makes a Boy Scout? The prototypical Boy Scout that comes to mind cleans beaches, ties knots and starts fire from sticks. But Ashwin Goel and Vish Satuloori, both senior patrol leaders (SPLs)...

Science Olympiad placed fifth in their first competition of the season at the Wolfpack Invitational, which took place at Great Oak High on Dec. 16. Competing against 26 other teams from across Southern...

Barbie, Ken, Buddy the elf and Santa lit up the performing arts center as Portola High choir members performed in “The Spirit of the Season '' annual concert held on Dec. 15. The Barbie-themed concert...

Before the semester officially ends in January, the weeks leading up to finals are packed: students urgently prepare for their cumulative or unit exams and grade-based anxiety is nearly tangible in the...

It is the most wonderful time of the year: Christmas time. Studios push out new movies so often that you can find a Christmas movie with any plot imaginable. Considering these holiday films’ overwhelming...

Telling kids that they are constantly under surveillance and cannot escape the creepy gaze of a home intruder is usually the script of a poorly written 90s horror movie.  Well, guess what happens every...

As the season of oversized hoodies and 50-question exams is here, students across Portola High frantically prepare for their semester finals. Whether your worries lie in calculus or English, it may seem...

Few literary works are as associated with the holiday season as Charles Dickens’ timeless classic, “A Christmas Carol.” Unsurprisingly, the 1843 novella has been adapted to the silver screen far...