Jinger Wallace News Today

A city commission recommend to the City Council that it ban all chemical pesticides, rodenticides and herbicides citywide.

Recently, my wife Ginger and I attended the Orange County chapter meeting of the Sierra Club to hear Ray Hiemstra give an informative and inspiring talk. Ray spoke about our county’s Coastkeeper organization, where he serves as Associate Director of Policy and Projects, how he protects local intertidal waters from pollutants and invasive plant species and guards our fish stocks.  

It was standing room only as visitors filled the LCAD Gallery during Laguna Beach's Thursday's Art Walk to celebrate this year's winners of the 12th Annual Laguna Bluebelt Photo Contest.

The 2021 Laguna Bluebelt Photo Contest awarded over $2,000 in cash and prizes to contestants for marine photography

Laguna Beach Local News Lifeguards search the southern cave on Thousand Steps Beach for a missing man as waves intensified in February 2015. Photo by Andrea Adelson. Laguna Beach officials said Wednesday that a graffitied Thousand Steps Beach sea cave is located on private property and are working with the property owners to remove the paint. Photos of the usually whimsical beachscape were posted to social media platforms, earning outrage from many Laguna Beach residents exasperated by a segmen...

Environmentalists advocating for enforcement to protect sand berm at Aliso Beach Beachgoers walk along Aliso Beach past the Aliso Creek where it meets the ocean. The Laguna Bluebelt Coalition is seeking enforcement to protect the Aliso Beach berm, a sand barrier that separates urban runoff in Aliso Creek from the Pacific Ocean. The environmentalist group says that some people breach the berm in order to create standing waves ridden by skimboarders, which it says leads to contamination o...