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The Laguna Beach High School Scholarship Foundation gave away more than $360,000 in the form of 126 scholarships to 115 students from the Class...

  Ideal conditions brought out larger than expected crowds to Main Beach last Sunday, June 7, for the 60th Laguna Men’s Open, to watch number...

To signal its intolerance for skipped meetings by members of city boards, the City Council amended its attendance policy and established that four absences...

Many downtown merchants left their shops this week to protest at City Hall, expressing their dismay with the proposed 13-day trial closure of a...

Four days before tonight’s scholarship awards convocation at Laguna Beach High School, Lynn Gregory was in crunch-time, “buried” under phone calls, getting out last-minute...

With an entourage of onlookers lining the sand, 14 of 17 sea lions injured by chlorine mysteriously dumped into a marine wildlife rehabilitation facility...

  Well-regarded Laguna Beach artist Terry Thornsley died of natural causes, supervising Deputy Coroner Mitchell Sigal said Monday. An autopsy was conducted Thursday, May 28, on...

Residents and businesses that routinely toss the wrong kind of garbage into their green waste and recycle bins may now be fined for their...

Summer trolleys will roll along the same coastal route as the off-season weekend trolleys that began in March, running north to south along Coast...

After 25 years of building an acclaimed student drama program at Laguna Beach Unified School District, Mark Dressler is expected to experience another outstanding...

Ownership of the Laguna Beach Independent newspaper, Laguna Beach Magazine and other publications of Firebrand Media will soon shift to 10 of its employees. Owner...

Festival of Arts officials announced the death of local sculptor Terry Thornsley, 56, earlier this week, but a spokeswoman declined to provide other details. The...

The Laguna Beach Independent and Laguna Beach Magazine are under new ownership, though readers shouldn’t expect to see any significant changes immediately. In a memo sent...

As aftershocks shook the house where he was writing last week, Rabindra Sitaula, program manager for Laguna Beach-based R Star Foundation, sent a progress...

Veterans Stage 88th Memorial Day Ceremony Laguna Beach American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars will conduct the 88th Memorial Day ceremony in remembrance of...