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With the summer tourist influx just weeks away, city officials unpacked a beach-bag full of tools to ensure it isn’t visitors alone who enjoy...

All who applied to serve on the housing committee were appointed unanimously by the council. Besides Fulton, they include newcomers Morris Skenderian, Cottie Petrie-Norris and Robert Reed as well as incumbents Jheri St. James and Faye Chapman.

The building’s sprawling side mural, “Charming” by well-known British street-artist Ben Eine, was painted over by construction crews renovating the apartment complex for new owner Mo Honaker last week.

The result is Assembly Bill 629, a proposal to add a section to the state business and professions code that, if enacted, would exempt galleries statewide from license requirements and allow them to offer small pours of alcoholic beverages under specific conditions.

Three years later, compassion for those lacking housing led Henderson to establish Friendship Shelter in his adopted hometown of Laguna Beach.

    Updated: May 4. Rescuers extracted an unconscious teen-ager to safety by hoisting him into a helicopter from an isolated cove in South Laguna about 4...

Once the door opens, it is impossible not to be drawn through the living room toward the floor to ceiling windows that reveal her garden.

Such cutting-edge experiments and opening enrollment of a chemistry class to students of all levels earned the campus a 2017 Gold Ribbon Award from state education officials last week.

Farinella’s report also shows property crimes are up 11%. Within property crimes, burglaries and larcenies rose most significantly. There were 31 more larcenies year over last, with almost half of all larceny crimes being thefts from parked vehicles. There were 23 additional burglaries in 2016 compared to 2015, with 31% of all residential burglaries a result of open or unsecured garages.

“Washington is a great city, but we are always glad to be home in Laguna Beach,” said Suzanne and James R. Mellor, taking in...

By Cassandra Reinhart, Special to the Independent Laguna Beach police are asking for the help of residents in locating a car thief who got away...

Harley Rouda, a Democratic candidate for the 48th Congressional District, says he’s “neck-and-neck” with the longtime incumbent, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, in terms of fundraising.

Moviegoers may not expect a film involving a disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain and spine to inspire hope, but “Augie” certainly does.

That’s the message the Newport Beach Film Festival wants 50,000 filmgoers to embrace during the 18th annual cinematic confluence of filmmakers and moviegoers that runs through April 27 at more than a dozen theaters in Newport Beach and Costa Mesa.

Members of the Laguna Beach Planning Commission are questioning the benefit of keeping so-called C-rated properties on the city's 1981 historic inventory, and some questioned keeping the inventory at all.