(AP) -- After an eight-hour meeting, the Irvine City Council has voted for an audit and reorganization of plans for the Great Park, the former military base that officials intended to turn into one of the nation's largest urban parks before financial problems slowed plans.

It’s a new year, and with it comes higher taxes and more government spending. In 2013, overtaxed Californians will send more of their hard-earned dollars to Sacramento than ever before, growing total state spending to a record $225 billion.

(AP) -- San Anselmo, Calif. has approved a new downtown park to be built on land donated by filmmaker George Lucas that will feature statues of Indiana Jones and Yoda, two of his most popular characters.

The San Diego City Council approved more items than usual on Tuesday for its first meeting of the year.

(AP) -- A San Diego County grand jury has indicted 15 people in a widening corruption case involving construction contracts at school districts.

Fasten your seatbelts, San Diego. We may be in for a less bumpy ride – if the City Council gets its way.

(AP) -- The latest trawl-net fish count shows the population of California's six species of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta fish are dwindling.

(Bloomberg) -- Equity Residential, the largest publicly traded U.S. apartment landlord, agreed to sell 27 properties to a joint venture of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC for as much as $1.5 billion.

Happy 2013! The champagne is gone and the confetti is cleaned up, so it's time to get back in the swing of things. Get the new year off to a good start by joining your colleagues for a week of informational meetings and forums, an economic forecast and a workshop to create your dream life. End the week in celebration at one of two installation dinners hosted by the Greater San Diego Association of Realtors and the NECA San Diego Chapter.

Real estate development runs in the Turk family's blood.

For the 12th consecutive year, Brickman Group was recognized for excellence by the California Landscape Contractors Association (CLCA), San Diego Chapter, during a recent awards ceremony.

The new owners of Belmont Park in Mission Beach are meeting with residents, planning groups and associations to get a sense of what the community would like to see at the entertainment center.

(AP) -- A Maryland board has approved a $3.3 million contract to conduct a survey off the coast of Ocean City related to developing offshore wind.

The California Department of Transportation has started a pilot program to accept contractor bids through an online bidding system.

The Urban Land Institute San Diego/Tijuana will host a discussion on the Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan at its monthly breakfast meeting on Tuesday.

(AP) -- A top executive with the company proposing to build a football stadium in downtown Los Angeles said no NFL team has yet expressed serious interest in moving to Southern California.

San Diego-based West of Five Group recently opened Clayton on the Park, a 206-unit luxury high-rise apartment tower in St. Louis. Interior design work was done by Catalina Design, of San Diego.

A recent meeting of the newly created San Diego chapter of the California Solar Energy Industries Association proved one thing: Dan Sullivan is admired in the San Diego solar community. Attendees there revered Sullivan as a pioneer in the local industry.

A person of many roles, Jim Umpleby has, for some time, been anything but a typecast player in San Diego or within Caterpillar Inc.

2012 was a big year for commercial real estate, as several hotels were sold and changed ownership and area malls responded to pressure from Internet retail sales by renovating their properties. In the construction industry, the public sector saw more of the spotlight as projects dealing with government-approved developments or tax payer-funded work made the front page more often in 2012.