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Shaped like a string of boxcars that tumbled off the CSX rail line, Chicago Ridge is a working-class southwestern suburb known for the regional mall that attracts shoppers like a magnet. Thanks to its abundance of modest multifamily housing, Chicago...

Homebuilders are the most confident they've been in five years, and those good feelings are translating into price increases for new-home buyers. It's very gradual, only in increments of a few thousand dollars at a time, but companies are testing...

Irvine is moving forward with a plan to sculpt 30 more acres of an old military base into soccer fields, basketball courts, gardens, ponds and a visitors center. The $22.8-million expansion of the Orange County Great Park will break ground......

IRVINE — The first-phase plans for the development of nearly 5,000 homes and 1.2 million square feet of commercial space to ring around the Orange County Great Park was submitted to the city by project officials this week. Five Point Communities...

Barry Minkow, former boy-wonder businessman, former born-again minister, former fraud buster and former FBI informant, is headed back to prison. A federal judge in Miami handed Minkow, 45, a five-year sentence Thursday -- the maximum possible term on...

Barry Minkow: The judge also said Minkow should be placed in a work camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, but the federal Bureau of Prisons decided camp wasn't appropriate. "The Feds found a way to be a bit punitive and put me in an 'administrative...

A coalition of environmental and Native American groups has sued the California Department of Fish and Game over permits issued to build 21,000 homes on Los Angeles County's last major tract of undeveloped land. The coalition, which filed the suit......