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By Jennifer Erickson | LB Indy Better promotion of peripheral parking lots supported by a strong trolley system prevented more cars from circulating downtown in...

A new memorial should be erected near Laguna Beach’s existing Sept. 11 and veterans memorials in remembrance of three public-safety employees who died in...

By Donna Furey | LB Indy To help Laguna Beach girls envision life in other parts of the world, they can slip on a burka...

The rain fell softly outside the Neighborhood Congregational Church on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 20, as dozens of Barbara Metzger's family and friends gathered to...

By Donna Furey | LB Indy The newly established Laguna Club opened last month and already has a following, with 45 out-of-school children enrolled in...

America, Still Exceptional? The acid test for my columns is to read them to the Beautiful Wife, hoping she approves. This time the BW wondered...

  Kaitlin Gunsolley is a go-getter. Even so, the jazz-dancing, flute-playing, 4.0 seventh-grader at Laguna Beach’s Thurston Middle School shines in October. For the sixth year,...

By Kellie Hall, Special to the Independent A memorial service will be held for Mike Herdman, Wednesday, July 9 at 11 a.m. at the Arcadia...

Karen Klammer calculates that dedicated volunteers put in about 1,000 hours over the past 18 months to obtain the necessary support of 60 percent...

By Andrea Primer, Special to the Independent   Juicing, a dietary trend gaining popularity in recent years, has attracted fruit-blending entrepreneurs to Laguna Beach for some...

An Irvine man died and six other people were injured in a four-car collision in Laguna Beach that resulted in the closure of a...

A jam-packed candidate forum in Newport Beach shed light on the field of eight Democratic hopefuls looking to oust the 48th District incumbent, Dana Rohrabacher, who silenced speculation about his future intentions this week.

By Randy Kraft, Special to the Independent Local resident Sam Goldstein will require more patience to learn if his petition for a rooftop deck on...

The owners of the Sandpiper Lounge, a well-known bar known for music acts and its Dirty Bird moniker, appealed without success to the City Council to refrain from adopting a citywide smoking ban that the brothers claim will hurt their business.

To affirm transparency of a subcommittee established to structure a law governing short-term rentals, Mayor Steve Dicterow called for an open meeting to air concerns and suggestions at 4 p.m., Tuesday, June 21, in the Laguna Beach City Council Chambers.