The Lead

By Justin Swanson | LB Indy   The stage goes black and when the lights re-illuminate it, the audience sees Mary Todd Lincoln, alone. She bustles...

Albert “Monte” Butler, 59, of Mapleton, Iowa, passed away April 20 due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Born March 8, 1954, in Onawa,...

A scuba diver died from cardiac arrest after surfacing from an afternoon dive with his son in one of Laguna Beach’s most popular coves...

About 50 members of the Laguna Beach Republicans elected longtime resident Howard Hills as its incoming president at a meeting on Saturday, Dec. 14. Wasting...

Laguna's abandoned pets and stranded pinnipeds are better off today because of a $720,000 donation from the estate of Enid Patricia Greaves, a 49-year...

Click Chicks Wins WeddingWire Award The online wedding marketplace WeddingWire selected Click Chicks Photography, owned by Laguna Beach resident Leslie Cunningham, to receive their bride’s...

Trash day proves much more of a chore than it used to be for Deborah Young and her neighbors in an unusual Laguna Canyon...

After years of talks and studies, Laguna Beach’s City Council voted 3-2 on Tuesday to proceed with a $42 million village entrance park and...

Candidates and organizations spent $300,240 on last November’s race for three seats on the Laguna Beach City Council, making 2014 the most expensive campaign...

  A seated man holds a hyena, an animal not exactly known for its docility, as if he were holding a lamb. Both man and...

Trained rescuers go into harm's way to free a whale entangled by a fishing line off San Clemente this past Sunday.

With 948 square miles to cover countywide, volunteers convened at 4:30 a.m. last Saturday, Jan. 28, at five deployment centers to undertake the biannual Point in Time survey of Orange County’s homeless population.

By Rita Robinson | LB Indy A cordial handshake over a solution was finally reached this past Tuesday, Jan. 13, on the contested repair of...

Residents in one Laguna Canyon neighborhood hard hit by a 100-year flood in 2010 are taking hard-earned lessons from one disaster to prepare for...

By Jennifer Erickson | LB Indy Laguna Beach Sister Cities Association President Karyn Philippsen was on a plane returning from England this past Monday just...