The character of Newport Beach's Balboa Island, first home to small vacation beach cottages, is changing as more and more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ferris wheel at the Balboa Fun Zone is shown in 2009 behind one of the red-and-white ferries that shuttle cars, bicyclists and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Balboa Island Ferry has operated in Newport Beach since 1919, but a new mandate handed down by the California Air Resources ...

Jodi Bole began her fight three years ago to save the towering, lemon-scented eucalyptus trees along Marine Avenue on Balboa Island. At the time, the city was planning to remove some of the trees from ...

The Balboa Island Ferry, which has transported cars, bikes and pedestrians across Newport Bay for more than 100 years, has reached an agreement with state air quality regulators to fully electrify its ...

For starters, the name is misleading. “Balboa Island” is not an island – well, not a real one, anyway. Back in the early 1900s its harbor, Newport Harbor, needed channels dredged of sand and silt to ...

Talk about charming. Balboa Island hardily matches that description and a day-trip there is something every Tinseltown family will not only enjoy, but reminisce about time and time again as the years ...

Maxine Maly was 5 years old the first time she visited Balboa Island, the harborside neighborhood in Newport Beach, California, about 40 miles south of Los Angeles. It was 1963, and she was on a day ...

A small, man-made island connected to the Newport Beach mainland by bridge, Balboa Island is bursting with fun activities. Marine Avenue is the island's main hub for shopping and dining. Here, you'll ...