Corner Blooms With Native Plants
At the corner of Laguna Canyon and El Toro Roads, near Anneliese’s Willowbrook campus, the Greater Laguna Coast Fire Safe Council is transforming a...
Laguna Police, Firefighters in Talks Over New Contracts
A tentative agreement with Laguna Beach firefighters and a separate progress report on negotiations with police employees was to be reviewed at a special...
Laguna Icons Flavor Airport Concessions
After a contentious bidding battle over revitalizing dining options at John Wayne Airport, two iconic Laguna Beach businesses will soon have an extra storefront...
City Hires New Asst. Manager
Jumping from Wine Country to Beach Brew
Drawing from outside employee ranks this time, Laguna Beach has hired Christa Johnson from Windsor, a town in...
Cox’s New Channel Guide Gets Bad Reception
Advertisements on Cox Cable’s guide channel proved to be the “straw that broke the camel’s back” in the words of local gadfly Jim Dorf,...
Preservation Advocates Wrap Up Their Work
Friends of the Newport Coast, established 35 years ago to preserve open space on nearly 10,000 acres of the Irvine Ranch that bordered the...
Laguna’s Safety Rating Improves
The town’s risk for potential losses from fire has diminished in the last five years due to stricter building code requirements and enforcement, according...
City to Install Flood Alarm System
The City Council approved the installation of a $38,000 flood warning system on Tuesday, eight months after a record-breaking rainstorm and deluged Laguna Canyon...
Sept. 11 Installation Underway
Though the months long reconstruction of Heisler Park ended before the summer season got underway, a contingent of joggers, dog walkers and tourists encountered...
Unraveling Mosun’s Demise
The popular Laguna Beach sushi bar and night club Mosun abruptly closed last week under legal pressure, an attorney for the landlord said.
After filing...
Animal Shelter Reopens
The city’s flood-damaged animal shelter reopened to the public in its original Laguna Canyon location on Monday.
Some of the replacement furnishings, damaged by last...
Relaying Hope
Survivors celebrate putting the darkness of cancer behind them
Tori Degen was 10 when she first noticed her abdomen getting larger, and upon a subsequent...
A Lingering Memory Uncovers a Forgotten Favorite
If you lived in Laguna Beach between the early 1960s and the late ‘80s, chances are good that you patronized La Paz, one of...
Emerald Bay Still Pursues its Own Signal
Despite the lack of support from Laguna Beach’s City Council, an Emerald Bay homeowners’ group will continue to pursue installing a traffic signal at...
Local Artist Hooks a Whale of a Job
California motorists will soon sight the tail of a new humpback whale above vehicles’ bumpers. It’s replacing another whale tail designed by popular marine...