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With a $16 million tax-exempt loan, the Laguna College of Art and Design will purchase and renovate what it calls its north Big Bend campus at 2825 Laguna Canyon Road and a building there now mostly occupied by a dental products company.

Hensley is building a 3,600-square-foot home at the top of Ruby Street in the Woods Cove neighborhood for his wife and 14-month-old and 10-year-old daughters. The home will replace a 1927 cottage they moved into in 2009 that he said is falling down around its ankles.

Just four months before a planned move to open a Le Macaron franchise in Laguna Beach, Cyrille Lemoine suffered his first ever injury in 21years as a jet ski and motocross racer.

They are among the residents in 108 homes on 14 mostly dead-end streets that splay off of Alta Vista Way confronting a potential street-parking ban as a way to improve access for emergency vehicles. The pilot plan would last a year.

Olympic water polo gold medalists Aria and Makenzie Fischer graciously greeted fans at a community award ceremony and small-scale carnival on the newly renovated high school field Sunday, Sept. 11.

Laguna Dance Festival's new season brings three dance companies to Laguna Beach beginning Sept. 22.

David Wilson of Laguna Beach took home the top $10,000 prize in the early bird drawing of the 12th annual Laguna Beach Million Dollar Home Raffle, which was held Sept. 1.

To quell criticism over a vaguely worded measure to increase hotel guest taxes on the November ballot, the City Council decided to tighten up their stance.

Firefighters quickly put out a 20-acre grass fire.

Array of Events Mark 15th Anniversary

The public is invited to attend a 6 p.m. forum with candidates for school board Thursday, Oct. 6, in the Artists Theatre, 625 Park Ave.

Peggy Wolff may be a first-time contender running for a seat on the Laguna Beach school district board, but it hasn’t been far from her mind as an active volunteer and teacher over the last 19 years.

With the opening of Asada restaurant and Reunion Kitchen + Drink later this month, restaurateur Scott McIntosh hopes to end the high turnover of dining spots that has been the bane of the Boat Canyon shopping center in recent years. "I plan on being here for a good long time, and I want the locals to feel it's their spot," said McIntosh in a recent interview.

The public is invited to mark the end of summer among friends at the Monday, Sept. 5, Labor Day Exchange Club pancake breakfast in...

A fire-prevention bill written on behalf of Laguna Beach awaits the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown, who has until Sept. 30 to approve or veto the measure.