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The concept, being called Park Plaza, is envisioned as an outdoor café-type setting, with tables, chairs, décor, plants and lighting.

Immunization rates in Laguna Beach public schools have improved dramatically and stand at 93 percent of student enrolled in the current school year, a marked improvement from the 86.3 percent in 2016 and the 71.1 percent rate in 2013.

Johnny Benitez, of Lake Forest, who organized last month’s demonstration by the anti-illegal immigration group America First, informed local police last week he had cancelled another rally in Laguna Beach set for Sept. 24.

When Laguna local Josh Nuefeld read about an Israeli aid group making their way to Houston, he decided he, too, should lend a hand. He quickly mobilized friends and family to bring tools and cleaning supplies to hurricane-ravaged Texas neighborhoods struggling to recover as home improvement stores, too, were wiped out.

Last month, Longi’s artist work/live project won a second unanimous approval from the California Coastal Commission, which regulates land and water use along the state’s coast.

“I’ve been in preschool for a million years,” said Macie Shearer. “I’ve been waiting a really long time to go to kindergarten. I’m 150 times excited!”

The Laguna Beach Planning Commission has decided to do away with the city’s long-standing historic home rankings of C, D, and E, and instead adopt the more widely used 1-5 ratings scale of the Secretary of the Interior.

The characters created by novelist Gloria Fickling are in the spotlight again in a documentary about their influence in changing women's roles in film and television.

An injured sea lion that had evaded rescuers in Dana Point Harbor since last week was successfully picked up Wednesday, Sept. 6, by the Pacific...

It’s been a long stage journey for a once introverted seventh-grader, freshly arrived in San Diego from Clinton, Iowa, who was pushed into a drama class as part of a middle-school humanities requirement.

The Reynolds opened Pearl Street General Market and began selling a curated collection of gourmet food items in 2013. In addition to the store, they dreamed of creating a neighborhood hangout, a place where people could stop by for coffee, cocktails, and conversation.

The Rev. Rod Echols, the new minister at Neighborhood Congregational Church, expresses a passion for “progressive Christianity,” and he thinks it’s the key to growing the church founded in 1943. “It means we can’t stand by. We must speak to the issues happening around us,” he said in defining what the concept means to him.

Laguna Beach residents with ties to Houston share their anxiety over how loved-ones are coping and a local store offers a donation to hurricane relief.

In one of the largest home burglaries in Laguna Beach in years, a property manager was arrested for allegedly breaking into a vacation home...

The painting looks stained and frayed at the edges. Haphazardly stored in the basement home of Laguna Beach artist G. Ray Kerciu for decades, he wagers that it might even have been sprinkled with a bit of rat pee. And yet, it has suddenly emerged as the piece de resistance that the artist added at the last minute to a one-man show, “G. Ray Kerciu: A Radical Retrospective.”