The Lead

Managers of the two water districts serving Laguna Beach residents say lead contamination like that experienced in Flint, Mich., is unlikely here, even in older homes, because the water source is constantly monitored by suppliers.

Police will start picking up homeless people sleeping under the Main Beach boardwalk in Laguna Beach during the early morning hours in a new four-seat golf cart big enough to hold their belongings.

  By Rita Robinson The 13th year of the 21st Century brought good luck as well as bad, victories and resignations, beginnings and abrupt endings.  Here’s...

Addressing the Chamber of Commerce’s annual State of the City lunch, Mayor Bob Whalen redefined the stated agenda Wednesday by describing not the status...

  By Bill Norris, Special to the Independent After 78 years, the Laguna Beach High School baseball team finally got to have its dog pile. The Breakers...

Welcome to the fifth annual Holiday Digest, a collection of fiction and nonfiction stories published in the Indy by members of the Third Street...

Immunization rates in Laguna Beach public schools have improved dramatically and stand at 93 percent of student enrolled in the current school year, a marked improvement from the 86.3 percent in 2016 and the 71.1 percent rate in 2013.

Two weeks after a masked gunman known as “the faceless bandit” held up banks in Laguna Beach and Seal Beach, a 36-year-old state prison...

Love Laguna Beach, a city-wide volunteer day where residents, businesses, city government, faith-based organizations, and non-profits will unite to make Laguna Beach a better...

A broad 10-year cultural arts “master plan” recommending more affordable space and global connection for the arts and artists in Laguna Beach, and ultimately requiring more money, was approved by the Laguna Beach City Council Tuesday.

A Return of the Most Hospitable Night of the Year Street closures begin at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in downtown Laguna Beach in anticipation...

By Donna Furey, Special to the Independent Laguna Beach residents are known for coming out to help their own. A fundraiser planned this Saturday, March...

More children may have access to after-school programs through Laguna Beach’s Boys and Girls Club if the City Council approves a proposal to lease...

Mayor Elizabeth Pearson officially announced Friday, April 4, that she will not seek a fourth term on the Laguna Beach City Council in November,...

Last weekend, three sick sea lion pups came up on the shore and rocks below Laguna Beach’s Heisler Park and a dog that had...