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Laguna Beach parents have been fighting for a skatepark in town for so long that the kids of early advocates are now adults. Initiatives...

At a performance for her aunt’s memorial, Whitney studied and adopted the jazz and blues stylings of Eva Cassidy. Another Cassidy fan, one of Whitney’s elementary school teachers, sent a video of her studentto Wendy Milette, of the My Hero Film Festival in Laguna Beach.

Where seawater mixes with freshwater at the mouth of Aliso Creek lies a six-acre remnant of what was once a broad estuary, which restoration...

An hour after a robber presented a demand note to U.S. Bank tellers and fled the downtown Laguna Beach branch, police arrested a 24-year-old...

By Cassandra Reinhart, Special to the Independent After the fireworks fade, the Laguna Beach Planning Commission will again spark debate on both sides of the...

  For a town already wealthy in dining options, Laguna Beach will soon get a little richer. Four new additions to the restaurant scene will...

By Allison Jarrell | LB Indy Plans for the highly anticipated Village Entrance project are finally nearing fruition, as the Laguna Beach City Council is...

  My sister, Kathy, went to Laguna Beach High School. Once in a while she would skip school in the afternoon, grab a taco, and...

Before the price jumps more than $100,000, the City Council voted to purchase outright the modular structure that has served as the city’s overnight homeless shelter since 2009.

Three factors – drought, climate change and bark beetles – make this fire season potentially riskier than in the past, fire Chief Jeff LaTendresse told the City Council in a presentation Tuesday.

Girls Water Polo (30-1) Makenzie Fischer scored five goals and had five steals to help power Laguna Beach past Newport Harbor 10-7 to capture the...

On March 12, Takafumi "Taka" Oiwa locked the doors to his studio for the final time. It was a bittersweet moment for the salon...

In a town with an abundance of non profits organizations, charities board recruiting efforts sometimes are hindered by the expected financial contributions of its members.

When the confusion cleared about what was being proposed, the City Council decided that the “Sunbathers” metal sculpture will be repositioned at Nita Carmen Park and completely recast in stainless steel at triple the original estimate.

A strip of land just 60-inches wide and 190 feet long in the Temple Hills Neighborhood generated heated debate Tuesday before the City Council,...