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A power outage impacted 2,450 Laguna Beach residents near Oak and Catalina streets on Friday, according to a Nixle alert. The outage started around 10:14...

There’s life again at the village entrance, a highly visible and often-congested downtown corner where hundreds of people park their vehicles between a concrete flood channel and a chain-link fence.

Norm Grossman will end 26 nearly consecutive years on the Planning Commission, when his current term expires June 30 after the City Council rejected...

An effort by hospital personnel to save a patient from an apparent suicide attempt at Mission Hospital Laguna Beach was unsuccessful, police and hospital...

The painting looks stained and frayed at the edges. Haphazardly stored in the basement home of Laguna Beach artist G. Ray Kerciu for decades, he wagers that it might even have been sprinkled with a bit of rat pee. And yet, it has suddenly emerged as the piece de resistance that the artist added at the last minute to a one-man show, “G. Ray Kerciu: A Radical Retrospective.”

After 25 years of building an acclaimed student drama program at Laguna Beach Unified School District, Mark Dressler is expected to experience another outstanding...

The South Laguna Community Garden stood in as an informal open-air chapel for the observance of Ash Wednesday, which uses ashes as a sign...

Nirvana Grille Executive Chef Lindsay Smith-Rosales was delivering a meal to the Laguna Beach home of a longtime customer when she learned his apple...

Team 33.5 Miles Across the Sea lived up to their name, swimming 33.5 miles and into the record books by crossing the Catalina Channel...

Local residents Martin and Tabatha Yewchuk will premiere of “The Greeter,” on Thursday, Feb. 25, at Seven Degrees, 891 Laguna Canyon Rd., and ticket sales will aid their efforts to promote the film worldwide.

The Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce will host a Zoom meeting with principals involved with the historic restoration of Hotel Laguna at 5:30 p.m....

By Bradley Zint I   An electric car company is looking to renovate the historic Laguna South Coast Cinemas theater into a new public-serving venue. Rivian, which...

Visit California honored tourism destinations and attractions across California for excellence in tourism marketing at the organization’s biennial Poppy Awards, held Feb. 11 in San Diego.

A Laguna Beach man joined the U.S. Olympic Skateboarding Team in Tokyo to compete in the sport’s debut at the Summer Olympics. Four-time world champion...

By Breeana Greenberg, Special to the Independent The Laguna Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education voted Sept. 9 against requiring all students to get...