Four National History Day club members placed as finalists at the first in-person NHD-OC Competition since 2019 on March 12. At the March 16 virtual awards ceremony, judges named vice president and...

Portola Pilot had its best showing in the program’s history at the Southern California Journalism Education Association State Media Contest hosted at the Maywood Center for Enriched Studies on...

Delve into the murky waters of Tilly the Tilapia's cannibalistic legacy in aquaponics.

At Portola High, the two physics courses offered to juniors – CP Physics and AP Physics 1 – cover the required subject in vastly different ways. From the amount of coursework to the number of concepts...

Junior varsity swimmer and junior Tessa Trieu’s voice bubbles with excitement as she describes her biggest victory in the pool. The memory comes to life as she recounts how she led the girls’ swim...

Face masks will no longer be mandatory but instead “strongly recommended” inside Portola High classrooms starting March 12, in accordance with California’s new indoor mask policies announced by Gov....

The fifth annual senior assassins competition ended on Feb. 27 and awarded senior Kian Miremadi with the jackpot amount of $1,220. The final round of competition was between Miremadi and senior...

As seniors Celine Aoki, Aafiyah Chohan and Chloe Choi enter their fourth and final season of lacrosse, we asked them four questions to learn about how their lacrosse journey all started, what it was like,...

Portola Pilot swept the competition, winning first place in Best of Show for Newspaper in Division 1, Website, Podcast and overall Sweepstakes at the Orange County Journalism Education Write-Offs hosted...