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Every parking meter and public lot in downtown Laguna Beach will increase to $3 an hour, starting June 24, and free summer trolleys will venture uphill to run the city bus routes now serving neighborhoods.

Teresa Rodriguez of Santa Ana broke into tears upon hearing that she had won the Women’s Opportunity Award from Laguna Beach’s Soroptimist’s chapter. The single...

Mason Bruderer to Present City Council with Donation for Moulton Meadows Dog Park Improvements  Laguna Beach Boy Scout Troop 35 member Mason Bruderer recently reached...

The public information officer for the Laguna Beach Unified School District said Tuesday that she plans to leave just over a year after taking...

When all the ballots were counted, property owners in Coast Royal and the historic Sara Thurston Park overwhelmingly voted to tax themselves to finance infrastructure improvements...

Former astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of former Arizona Rep. Gabriel Giffords, pulled away his daughter’s dog that had attacked a sea lion pup...

Sage Hill School in Newport Coast recently announced that two of their alumni, who both hail from Laguna Beach, Carolyn Witte (2008 graduate) and Luke Droulez (2007 graduate), have been named to Forbes Magazine’s annual ‘30 under 30’ list. Witte and Droulez are the fifth and sixth graduates of Sage Hill to make the list.

After years of imploring city and school officials to ensure that all local children learn to swim, 50-year Laguna Beach resident Bruce Hopping got...

Oceanfront landowners may have a more difficult time adding onto or remodeling structures under a proposed policy reviewed by the Planning Commission on Wednesday.

With four days remaining before the start of a new fiscal year, the Laguna Beach school board approved an annual budget of $56 million, 1.89 percent lower than the previous year, Tuesday, June 27. By a 4-0 vote, board members also ratified new employment contracts, giving district employees a 1.5 percent pay raise in ongoing compensation and a one-time, 1 percent off-schedule payment, according to the agenda.

Laguna Art Museum has tapped Julie Perlin Lee, outgoing executive director of Catalina Island Museum, to lead the storied organization amid a pandemic that...

Laguna Beach schools will see significant changes this fall with Dr. Jason Allemann starting as the new principal at Laguna Beach High School, while another era may be ending at Top of the World Elementary School, with the suspension of a 34-year-old program.

By Clara Beard, Special to the Independent After feedback and discussion from concerned residents regarding the installation of an enclosed lifeguard tower at Moss Street...

The Laguna Beach City Council became the first in Orange County to unanimously renounce reopening oil and gas drilling off the California coast, renewing a decades long stance against the practice.

Filmmaker William Kirkley's "Orange Sunshine" depicts the hippie era in Laguna Beach in a premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival.