It’s hard to miss the 100-foot-tall, 72-foot-wide orange helium balloon rising above I-5 a few days each week. That visibility has Great Park staff wondering if it can sell the space for adve… ...

When movie producer David Wolper set out to wow the world at the opening ceremonies for the 1984 Olympic Games, he contacted a 30-year-old Garden Grove native, who was building a reputation around ...

For more than four months Irvine’s balloon ride, the lone attraction at the fledgling Orange County Great Park, sat grounded and criticism grew that the project was neither great nor a park.