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Mission Hospital will seek permission of state Public Health Department regulators to allow admitted patients to recover in under-used private rooms of the intensive...

Based on the most recent figures available Wednesday, June 13, Keirstead leads with 17.3 percent of the vote to Rouda’s 17.1 percent. Scott Baugh, a Republican who came in fourth with 16.2 percent of the vote, has conceded and endorsed the incumbent. The other 12 candidates in the contest received less than 5 percent of the vote.

The medical condition of a 36-year-old woman wounded in a shooting by Laguna Beach police was upgraded to stable from critical this week after she underwent surgery for gunshot wounds.

By Sara Hall and Victoria Kertz In the tightest race on local ballots Tuesday, the 48th Congressional District, the top spot easily went to the longtime incumbent,...

Laguna Terrace Park, the family owned 156-space mobilehome neighborhood with ocean-views in South Laguna, is in escrow, though the buyer was not identified, according...

With more than 9,600 acres burning in Orange and Riverside counties as of Thursday morning, fire danger is on the minds of many in South Orange County. Smoke from the Holy Fire has been visible from Laguna since Monday afternoon, when the blaze first erupted in the Holy Jim Canyon area of Cleveland National Forest. As of Thursday morning, the fire was only 5 percent contained, according to authorities.

Mission Hospital made an informal inquiry of state Health Department regulators about seeking permission to change the sort of patients that could make use...

Laguna artist Joan Gladstone part of Airport Exhibit 'California Dreamin' Air travel in and out of John Wayne Airport looks a lot more colorful this...

Monday, Jan. 21 Vandalism. 200 block of Forest Ave. 12:42 a.m. Vandalism was reported in the vestibule of a restroom. Drug activity. 1200 block of Coast...

A 34-year-old Costa Mesa man who was hired as a nanny for families across Southern California, including Laguna Beach, was sentenced on Friday, Nov....

The city of Laguna Beach is heading into the 2018-2019 fiscal year with $4.8 million more in its coffers than anticipated, according to city staff.

Donations amounting to several thousand dollars tipped into candidate Harley Rouda’s campaign treasury in the past few days following the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s decision to back him in the hotly contested June 5 primary election in the 48thcongressional district.

Members of the Laguna Beach Planning Commission are questioning the benefit of keeping so-called C-rated properties on the city's 1981 historic inventory, and some questioned keeping the inventory at all.

The Festival of Arts plans to roll out the red carpet for its end-of-season celebrity gala on Saturday, Aug. 26, which will feature a performance by nine-time Grammy award winning trumpeter, songwriter and music executive Herb Alpert and an appearance by actor Brian Cranston, who will act as commentator during the Pageant of the Masters production.

The purpose of the 11th annual National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Month, proclaimed by the city council and organized by the Housing and Human Services committee, is to enhance community awareness of the issue in society, our own hungry and homeless in Laguna Beach, and the community organizations that assist the homeless and hungry in Laguna Beach and Orange County. The community of Laguna Beach can participate in numerous ways.