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A wave of violence erupted in Surf City USA after the conclusion of the U.S. Open of Surfing on Sunday in Huntington Beach. Local police...

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...

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,...

Randolph Leonard Hargrave, 72, passed away Saturday, July 27, 2013, at home in Laguna Beach among family and with his dog on his lap....

Lugano Diamonds opened a salon in partnership with the Montage resort to create a special deal for brides-to-be. The “Something Borrowed” program allows brides who...

Laguna Beach’s Mayor Kelly Boyd, who took wedding vows himself three times, for the first time served as a wedding officiate, presiding over a...

By Christine Carpenter, Special to the Independent Selling their work alongside 125 professional artists at this summer’s Art-A-Fair festival are two Orange County students, awarded...

Old School Barbershop Provides Cuts and Camaraderie    Tyler Berryhill confesses to cheating on his regular barber while ensconced in a vintage chair at The Den,...

  Rehabilitated California sea lions Grace and Evanora will be released back into the wild this weekend by the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, whose staff...

Critics continue to air objections to a plan approved by elected officials in June to develop a $42 million village entrance park and parking...

Springing into action after an unexpected power outage last weekend, a Pacific Marine Mammal Center board member managed to get a generator operating to...

Harrison Milanian never got a chance to see the face of the railroad engineer, who stopped a 200-car train somewhere between Amarillo, Tex., and New...

Master Gardener Sows SEEDS City Council member Toni Iseman awarded junior master gardener certificates recently to Laguna Beach elementary school students Katelyn Kolberg, Keala Henry,...

By Justin Swanson | LB Indy   Skip Hellewell fell in love with Laguna Beach immediately. On a camping and surfing trip as a youth, Hellewell...

Recycling and composting food scraps will keep trash collection fees low as well as lessen the amount of trash taken to overflowing landfills, according...