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By Suzie Harrison Ascending a spiral staircase to the North Laguna Beach set, a cheering crowd goes wild for “The Duke Fightmaster Show,” a weekly...

Part 1 Pennsylvania mining heiresses Blanche and Florence Dolph chose the coastal foothills of Laguna and south Orange County as the focus of their property...

By Andrea Adelson Two years ago, Pat Forster was served up an unknown chapter of his storied family history while having lunch at Molly’s Café...

By Dale Ghere, Special to the Independent The first metal towers  Around 1958, Chief Lifeguard Art Fizette decided lifeguards needed to be up off the beach...

BY SUZANNE DUNN Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton stopped briefly last month. So did one of her Democratic rivals, New Mexico’s governor, Bill Richardson. Four years ago, so...

St. Clair Family Norman St. Clair, Laguna's First Artist  Part 1 By Ann Christoph Artist and architect Norman St. Clair and his descendents played a powerful role...

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...

                      By Mark Chamberlain, Special to the Indy In the Spring of 1989, my partner Jerry Burchfield and I, with the help of scores of dedicated...

By LAUREN KORDUNER In her office, City Treasurer Laura Parisi keeps a photo of herself wearing a borrowed prop from the most recent production of “Lagunatics,”...

Ousted for a few days by the landslide and evacuation of the Bluebird Canyon area, Pam Hagen met her neighbor, Al Trevino, at a...

You never know what life is going to hand you when you get up in the morning. As usual this morning I walked down the...