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Many wonderful writers publishing these first few months – novels, short stories, essay, true crime and memoir – and many candidates for book groups. Here’s a sampling. ...

By Rachelle Cano, Special to the Independent Long after our parents and grandparents have left us, our family traditions continue. Traditions—the things that outlive any material object we might buy while roaming the malls during the holidays. Simply put, our traditions—and the...

At 3:19 a.m. Friday morning, Laguna Beach Police Department officers responded an injury traffic collision on Laguna Canyon Road, according to LBPD Sgt. Jim Cota. “Officers responded and found a tow truck and another vehicle at the outbound curb, fully engulfed in...

By Allison Jarrell | LB Indy The results of the 2018 midterm election began rolling in just past 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6 after polls closed throughout California. In the Laguna Beach City Council race, with 4 of 16 precincts reporting as of 9:30 p.m., incumbent Toni Iseman...

So when The Sandpiper Lounge announced last week that Chip had passed on Sept. 4, it should be no surprise that more than 100 community members and Sandpiper patrons from across the state, and the country, expressed their sorrow over the loss of a friend and a true fixture of the...

By Allison Jarrell | LB Indy Laguna Beach is mourning the loss of Chip Harrell, who was the longtime owner of The Sandpiper Lounge with his brother, Chuck. Harrell’s uncle opened the Sandpiper in 1942, known affectionately by locals as the Dirty Bird, and owned it for about...

By LB Indy staff Laguna locals Martin Bergman and Rita Rudner will premier their new musical “Two’s A Crowd” at the Laguna Playhouse Friday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Sept. 16. With music and lyrics by Laguna’s own Jason Feddy, the un-romantic comedy stars Rudner and Davis Gaines....

Laguna resident Mark Nelson, who recently announced his campaign for Laguna Beach Unified School District, is in the hospital following a vehicle rollover collision that closed all lanes of Coast Highway in downtown Laguna last Friday, Aug. 17.

By LB Indy Staff City Manager John Pietig recently announced the appointment of Jeremy Frimond as Senior Administrative Analyst for the city of Laguna Beach. Frimond starts his new position on Sept. 10. Frimond was born and raised in Laguna and has worked for the city since 2003....

Besides the prospect of flipping our 48th district in November, as well as the House, we also have a chance to flip our own City Council, with possibly three new members It’s a crowded field, with a record 13 candidates, so the vexing question is how to distinguish between them?...

Two things you can always count on for summer: Pageant of the Masters and a Laguna Playhouse musical.

Longtime City Council member Toni Iseman announced this week that she’ll be running for another term at the dais, bringing the tally up to 11 potential council candidates on the ballot this November.

The California Coastal Commission levied a $1 million fine on Aug. 9 against a Laguna Beach couple for rebuilding their beachfront house in Laguna without applying for a coastal development permit.

“If human beings really were able to take the long view – to consider seriously the fate of civilization decades or centuries after our deaths – we would be forced to grapple with the transience of all we know and love in the great sweep of time. So we have trained ourselves,...

By Allison Jarrell | LB Indy Plans for the highly anticipated Village Entrance project are finally nearing fruition, as the Laguna Beach City Council is slated to award a construction contract for the development on Tuesday, Aug. 7. If action is taken, construction could begin as...