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A Laguna Beach City Council member described the backers of the medical marijuana dispensary Measure KK as mysterious out-of-towners looking to capitalize on the potential for legal marijuana.

With Halloween days away, scary creatures cast a somber aspect in yards and storefronts even as local residents set up haunted houses in anticipation of Oct. 31.

Laguna Beach investigators arrested a man who they suspect of clandestinely ascending to the rooftops of private homes in coastal cities in recent months...

After a one year postponement due to predicted heavy rain fall last winter, demolition is now underway behind the façade of the Festival of Arts.

School board incumbent Jan Vickers says she has missed only two board meetings in the 26 years she’s served in elected office, helping govern the four-campus Laguna Beach school district.

Voters could discern clear differences between the local candidates at a recent forum, beginning with starting question to outline their top priorities if elected.

Sunny Laguna Beach provided a temporary home for two worthy causes this past Saturday.

While the increase in the pup population is slight – 9 percent – it’s positive data after a severe downturn of births by nearly 50 percent in four of the last five years, according to National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency experts.

By Andrea Adelson and Jean Ardell | LB Indy  Candidate Judie Mancuso and four others accused Mayor Steve Dicterow of a lack of transparency over...

All of the tents and sleeping bags are stowed away for the duration of the year, but the historic Scout Camp will reopen when nights warm up in 2017 to nonprofit organizations serving underprivileged children. Once used by the Girl Scouts and the YMCA, the decades-old site nestled in a eucalyptus grove beyond the golf course at The Ranch at Laguna Beach is bonding kids and nature once again.

It made its debut at the recent Rotary Club annual Classic Car Show. The completely restored 1974 Jeep CJ5 goes on public display again at the Cancer Society’s Relay for Life at El Morro Elementary on Saturday, Oct. 15. And next week, former Laguna Beach lifeguards plan to donate their labor of love as a gift to the city.

Water district workers this week installed odor-trapping backflow devices at the connections of its sewer main with Laguna Terrace Park, the Laguna Beach mobile home park where a growing group of residents say sewer odors and hydrogen sulfide gases infiltrate their mobile homes and make some sick.

Artists and churches in Laguna Beach both strive to find an audience. Some have been collaborating to their mutual benefit. Others are hoping to.

Laguna Beach voters are evenly divided about a measure that would repeal a local ban on medicinal marijuana dispensaries on the November ballot, according to a voter poll obtained by the Indy.

With less than a month before the November election, three candidates vying for two spots on the Laguna Beach Unified School District board answered questions posed by members of the audience last Thursday