Year in Review: Top Staff Photos of 2021

Shoppers leave the Target on Harbor Boulevard in Costa Mesa after California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered a statewide mask mandate for indoor public spaces.

A picture of Aiden Leos is displayed at the memorial shrine for him which grew to hundreds of items on an overpass above the 55 freeway in Orange. Two suspects were arrested in the freeway shooting case that took the life of the Costa Mesa 6-year-old.

Newport Harbor sophomore Peter Castillo, center, cheers with teammates after the Sailors defeated Huntington Beach in the CIF Southern Section Open Division title match at Woollett Aquatics Center in Irvine.

Grayson Foley, 7, and his brother Braxton, 14, from Redlands, play football on the beach near Balboa Pier on a November day.

A city worker clears debris from a drain that begins to clog at Jasmine and PCH during a heavy storm in Laguna Beach.

Crude oil covers the sand as low tide recedes at Huntington State Beach after the October oil spill.

Employees walked-out to protest reported sexual harassment and discrimination at Irvine’s Activision Blizzard in July.