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By Barbara McMurray, Special to the Independent European Optical, one of Laguna’s oldest family-run businesses, is marking its forty-seventh year as it shakes off pandemic-related...

'The Castle’ withstands a firestorm By Loreen Berlin, Special to the Independent Twenty years ago, Laguna Beach homeowner Lona Ingwerson lived in a Mystic Hills home...

Bach and Schubert, Grieg and Villa Lobos. Michael Jackson, Ellen Reid and Stephanie Cheng Smith? While the first three are staples of classical music, the...

Wednesday, May 12 Patrol check. El Toro Road and Laguna Canyon Road. 10:32 p.m. A 2010 Mazda on El Toro Road appeared to have either...

City officials cut the ribbon this week on finished beach access improvements at Mountain Road, replacing the 51-year-old stairs, adding new fencing and reinforcing the Garden of Peace and Love.

A Thurston Middle School social studies teacher and district human resources assistant were selected as the 2021-22 employees of the year for the Laguna...

US National Champ to Compete in Upcoming World Championships Luke Fetzer practically grew up at Laguna Cyclery. The local bike shop, owned by his dad,...

By Justin Swanson | LB Indy   In 2006, Laguna Beach resident Tom Kemp was driving northbound on Coast Highway, passing El Morro. By utter chance,...

An Assistance League group put together Easter baskets for children of military families at Camp Pendleton, their second project this year. Earlier, they packed 28...

Now, Shift Digital’s local employees can catch a few waves before work, and shower in the upstairs bath before heading down to the black and royal blue walled offices with polished concrete floors and rows of shiny white desks.

County health officials act to stem an outbreak of measles by imposing a quarantine on seven unvaccinated Laguna Beach High School students, including the one who contracted the illness.

May 15, 1927-Feb. 10, 2013                         You are beloved daughter of Margaret Gertrude and Thomas Henry Conroy; charming wife to David William Upham, Sr.,...

A plan to restore Aliso Creek Estuary to a more natural state will likely require the creation of a joint powers authority—consisting of the city of Laguna Beach, the county and the South Coast Water District

By Bradley Zint LB Indy   The Laguna Beach City Council approved the long-awaited Coast Inn renovation project late Tuesday, following a marathon session whose main...

Joie Pierce Jones, age 72, passed into the light on June 23 after several years of failing health. As a high school student in Abilene,...