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Huntington Beach councilmember Kim Carr announced her candidacy for the newly drawn 36th State Senate District, which now includes Laguna Beach, on Tuesday. The district...

Available for the first time since its completion in 2011, the modern, Balinese-inspired residence welcomes is located in the front row of Lagunita, one...

The Laguna Beach Planning Commission is expected to get its first look Wednesday at a draft of the Downtown Specific Plan, a hugely consequential document that will guide redevelopment in the historic core for decades, which has been in the works for about seven years.

By Randy Kraft, Special to the Independent When Robert Owens, the adopted son of now retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Claude Owens, first made...

She led Laguna's incorporation effort in the '20s. She was a founding member of the Presbyterian church and the art association that became the Laguna Art Museum. Anna Hills finally gets her due in a museum exhibit.

Three women who grew up in Laguna Beach are among the 600 young stars identified by Forbes in its 2018 edition of 30 Under 30, which the magazine describes as an “annual encyclopedia of creative disruption” across 20 different industries.

By Jean Stern, Special to the Independent Joseph Kleitsch was born in 1882 in Nemet Szent Mihaly, a part of Hungary that is now part...

In this class, acting out is encouraged. With its emphasis on less is more, the new Common Core state-mandated academic standards still require teachers to...

Bill Ogden happily returned to Laguna Beach and Sawdust Art and Craft the Festival this week. Here, he earned recognition as an era-defining artist whose vision made him a standard bearer for heady times when youth culture pushed hard against a prevalent art establishment.

The artists who carved a wooden likeness of Laguna Beach greeter Eiler Larsen hopes to restore it.

  Local experts share how to incorporate beautiful aquatic features into your landscape. Section by Kate Miller   Sometimes, there is nothing more relaxing than the sound...

Chef Rainer Schwarz recently revamped the menu of Laguna Beach’s Deck restaurant with sophisticated seasonal entrees. Soon his sous chefs will turn out the...

Gallery owner Marion Meyer confirmed she intends to close her self-named contemporary art gallery, anchoring a block of North Coast Highway known as Gallery...

A man who served as a male nanny for families across Southern California, including in Laguna Beach, faces four felony child molestation charges for victimizing two young boys under his care, authorities said Wednesday.

A Laguna Beach school board member recently suffered a setback in California federal court when the presiding judge tossed her complaint that the superintendent...