North Laguna Beach residents may have heard the sound of a helicopter hovering overhead early Wednesday morning, when authorities converged on an abandoned boat off the coast of Crescent Bay Beach.

LAGUNA BEACH — John Taschner, a Laguna Beach lifeguard, was busy on Friday, June 22, keeping watch over a beach popular with locals. Despite a mostly overcast sky, the water was warm and the beach set ...

friends or part of a diving group, but knew all seven had driven separately to Crescent Bay Beach. “I couldn’t even get a name,” August said. “I got a lot of shaking heads and had to search Le’s car ...

A boat found overturned off the Orange County coast early Wednesday morning was determined to have been used in a human smuggling event, police said. The capsized vessel was reported just before 6 a.m ...

Laguna Beach police are on “heightened alert” along the city’s shoreline after two panga boats landed at Crescent Bay and Victoria beaches on Sunday, Sept. 19. Police received calls from residents who ...