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Almost half of the $2.2 million in revenue anticipated from the Laguna Beach's Measure LL-approved increase to Laguna Beach's transient occupancy tax will fund utility under-grounding.

The Women’s March on Washington is expected to draw 166,000 attendees, says a Facebook page, with 254,000 more expressing interest. Seventeen women from Laguna Beach plan to attend.

By Cassandra Reinhart, Special to the Independent If you've ever wondered what the summer of 1969 was like in beach cottage No. 9 at Crystal...

Moorea Howson stepped with ease into Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis last week, grinning and greeting everyone she met among the 72 homecoming queens recruited to entertain the 75,000 cheering fans.

The Laguna Beach Arts Commission is focusing attention on better maintaining the city's large public art collection.

Police say they are considering filing new charges against a thrill-seeker suspected of jumping into a swimming pool from a Laguna Beach hotel roof...

After 78 years, the Laguna Beach High School baseball team finally got to have its dog pile.

And Moorea Howson, the high school’s 2015 homecoming queen, will join other homecoming queens in Memphis for the pre-show and halftime show at the Liberty Bowl. Georgia and TCU face of Monday, Jan. 2.

Laguna said goodbye this year to residents and community contributors who touched our lives and will long be remembered in our town.

This year, state and national trends buffeted Laguna Beach and helped reshape the town’s landscape.

In a letter to the Indy in 2011, local resident Peter Navarro, a registered Democrat at the time, characterized himself as “an environmentally sensitive, fiscally conservative Clintonite.”

Here’s a look back at what made news in Laguna’s art scene in the past year. Wall Rises on Main Beach Crowds flocked to Main Beach...

Since arriving in Nepal a month ago, Laguna Beach resident Rosalind Russell has been heartened by loving welcomes from villagers grateful that her R Star Foundation has given them “a fighting chance” to recover since the destructive 2015 earthquake.

Santa’s Beach House glittered in the sun as Maggie Ladislao Ramirez and her two young children, Arianna Purez, 6, and Cartur Ladislao,2, played with Santa while waiting to meet Chris Loidolt, 69, to receive Christmas presents Loidolt purchased for the family through the Adopt-a-Family Program Loidolt has participated in for over 20 years.

By Charlie Warner, Special to the Independent  The worship centers of Laguna Beach have scheduled a full plate of events, from taking part in the...