Experts Find Third Infected Palm
By Ted Reckas | LB Indy
Experts detected another palm tree near North Coast Highway and Wave Street with signs of red palm weevil damage...
“The Little Engine That Could” Gains Ground
By Rita Robinson | LB Indy
The easy part was scrambling for two years to buy a deserted retirement home at Ruby Street and S....
Preparing for the Next Onslaught
By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy
Even as flood-wary residents monitor weather forecasts and hope to avoid a repeat of last week’s destruction, city officials...
Suspected Smugglers Land at Crystal Cove
By Ted Reckas | LB Indy
Possible human traffickers landed a boat at Crystal Cove State Beach early Tuesday morning.
Its 10 occupants fled toward Coast...
Flood Blamed on 2002 Council Decision
By Rita Robinson | LB Indy
After $3.5 million in estimated damages and clean-up costs, and countless anxiety attacks in downtown merchants, the flood in...
After Laguna Returned to a Lagoon
Despite a precautionary city flyer distributed to downtown merchants the day before last week’s first heavy winter rainstorm, nearly 60 businesses, heeding the warning...
Help Pours Out for Growers
Growers First, a Laguna Beach-based nonprofit helping improve the livelihood of 687 family coffee farmers in 20 villages in Honduras and Mexico, expects to...
Tour Renovated Presbyterian Church
There will be a free, half-hour, docent-led tour of the recently renovated Laguna Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Forest Avenue and Second Street,...
Lessons Even Scrooge Would Admire
Just as national trends show an uptick in holiday spending, that trend was also reflected at an annual holiday boutique put on by fifth-graders...
Hotels Atwinkle With Top Marks
Laguna Beach’s Surf & Sand Resort, the Montage resort and its Studio restaurant each earned the Auto Club’s Four Diamond Award in 2011, denoting...
Woman Arrested for Embezzlement
A 14-year employee of a Newport Beach architectural firm was arrested this week for allegedly embezzling more than $150,000 to finance personal expenses including...
Dog Days Over at Animal Shelter
It may not rate LEED green-building status, but the 50-year-old Laguna Beach Animal Shelter won approval for a complete $669,000 eco-friendly renovation.
The City Council...
Police Cleared in Koenig Shooting
Colby Joshua Koenig’s parents are weighing the findings of an inquiry clearing Laguna Beach police of criminal culpability in their son’s death, the family’s...
Police Suggest Speed Limits on Skateboarding
Laguna’s Police Chief Paul Workman urges the imposition of a speed limit on skateboarders, one of many recommendations in a report he submitted last...
15 Households Still Await an Angel
Thanks to the generosity of local families, churches and community
organizations, almost all of the low-income families in Laguna Beach seeking Christmas aid will have...