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A vehicle pursuit made its way through and ended in Newport Beach this week, police reported. The Newport Beach Police Department’s dispatch center received information at 3:08 p.m. Wednesday that pursuit of a silver Mercedes started in Laguna Beach and was proceeding through...

Affable, affectionate and charming, the 1988 play “Driving Miss Daisy” by American playwright Alfred Uhry, about the relationship of an elderly white Southern Jewish woman (Daisy) and her African-American chauffeur (Hoke) is one of those character-driving plays that requires...

The Newport Beach Film Festival and the Laguna Art Museum are hosting a free screening of the documentary film “Leaning Into the Wind — Andy Goldsworthy” on Saturday as part of the museum’s Art and Nature Festival that runs through Sunday. The 2017 film follows the British...

Newport Beach Fire Department helped out this week in fighting a blaze in a neighboring city. NBFD sent in the extra aid to battle the Aliso Viejo-Laguna Beach vegetation fire that started Saturday afternoon and quickly grew to 175 acres. By Wednesday morning it was 85 percent...

By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy Political campaign advertising in the run-up to California’s June 5 primary is surfacing on lawns, on cable television, in mailboxes and online, but some of the sloganeering is being underwritten by interests other than the candidates themselves. At...

By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy Kylie Mawson experienced first-hand the terror of being a human target as she crawled across the grounds of a country music festival in Las Vegas as a gunman fired more than 1,100 rounds from a high-rise hotel, leaving 58 fans dead and 851 injured on...

By Andrea Adelson and Victoria Kertz | LB and NB Indy In a first sign of consolidation among candidates bidding to unseat Rep. Dana Rohrabacher in the midterm election, Newport Beach resident and architect Laura Oatman this week ended her campaign and endorsed one of her...

By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy Candidate Hans Keirstead outscored five opponents vying to become the Democratic Party standard bearer in congressional District 48 to win the endorsement of a majority of party delegates at its annual convention in San Diego. Keirstead, a stem cell...

By Andrea Adelson | LB Indy In the race for the state Assembly district that covers Newport Beach, the candidacy of Laguna Beach resident Cottie Petrie-Norris received a boost this week from the California Democratic Party, which endorsed her bid for office. At several locations...

Dana Rohrabacher, who has represented California’s 48th congressional district for 13 terms, is running for reelection. Elected in 1988, the California Republican has served under six presidents and even wrote speeches for fellow Californian Ronald Reagan before he entered the...

By Andrea Adelson | NB Indy The floating light standard created for a temporary Laguna Art Museum exhibit at sea now remains tied up for the foreseeable future in Newport Beach, its installation halted by eleventh-hour environmental concerns raised by regulators. Late last week,...

By Joe Haakenson | Special to the NB Indy Jacquie Moffett has been there, done that. Entering her remarkable 50th year as a presenting artist in Laguna Beach’s Festival of Arts, one might think there is nothing more for her to experience, to inspire her, to tickle her funny bone....

Donna Furey | NB Indy Harley Rouda, a Democratic candidate for the 48th Congressional District which includes Newport Beach, says he’s “neck-and-neck” with the longtime incumbent, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, in terms of fundraising. Rohrabacher, of Costa Mesa, who won re-election with...

By Donna Furey | NB Indy Laguna Beach local and first time candidate Harley E. Rouda intends to challenge Rep. Dana Rohrabacher for the 48th Congressional District, which covers Newport Beach, he announced Thursday. Rohrabacher, a Republican who lives in Costa Mesa, has...

By Andrea Adelson | NB Indy Environmental leader and preservationist Fern Pirkle died at her Corona del Mar home on Nov. 11. She was 90. Pirkle was the founder and president of Friends of the Newport Coast and led the fight against the Irvine Company to preserve as open space...

By Torie Hamilton | Special to the Independent Steakhouse quality meat has arrived in Newport Beach thanks to The Butchery that recently opened in Crystal Cove Shopping Center. The independent butcher shop, established in 2009, has already garnered a reputation through its two...

By Rita Robinson | NB Indy After seven years of work completing a “fun drug-smuggling tale” about the LSD-deifying Brotherhood of Eternal Love from Laguna Beach, documentary filmmaker William Kirkley canned the whole thing. He had finally found the real story within the story and...

Disaster struck about 300 yards  off the shore of Corona del Mar State Beach on Wednesday. A distress call came in that two boats collided and both were taking on water. The Aggressor, the 65-foot vessel from Newport Landing, radioed in that they had collided with a fishing boat....

 Andrea Adelson | Special to the NB Indy Ownership of the Newport Beach Independent newspaper, Newport Beach Magazine and other publications of Firebrand Media will soon shift to 10 of its employees. Owner Allan Simon, who since 2009 has invested $7 million in expanding the...

Newport Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Sister City In honor of the 30-year Sister City relationship between Newport Beach and Okazaki, Japan, the Newport Beach Sister Cities Association will host a ceremony and reception on Tuesday, October 14 at 11 a.m. in the Bamboo Courtyard...