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Public records show the next Laguna Beach city manager will earn more than her counterparts in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach.

Laguna Beach City Council to consider employment contract for Shohreh Dupuis as city manager Laguna Beach Mayor Pro Tem Sue Kempf, Mayor Bob Whalen, and council members Toni Iseman and George Weiss begin an in-chambers meeting of the Laguna Beach City Council. (Don Leach / Staff Photographer) Print Following the appointment of Shohreh Dupuis to become the next city manager of Laguna Beach, the Laguna Beach City Council will consider the employment contract under which Dupuis will begin working in her new role. Dupuis, who currently works as assistant city manager for the city of Lagun...

Laguna Beach repeals municipal code section criminalizing certain language Laguna Beach Mayor Bob Whalen and council members Toni Iseman and George Weiss on the dais at the beginning of Tuesday’s meeting in the Council Chambers. (Don Leach / Staff Photographer) Print Laguna Beach has repealed a section of its municipal code that called for the criminalization of the use of certain speech at City Council meetings. The Laguna Beach City Council unanimously approved the motion to repeal the section in question Tuesday night, albeit not without some anticipated fireworks. The timing of ...

Laguna Beach Local News Signs outside Laguna Beach City Hall direct visitors to check-in at the Council Chambers amid a COVID-19 case surge. Photo by Daniel Langhorne Laguna Beach will join a growing number of cities signing onto a legal brief supporting Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes’ appeal of a court order to release half the Orange County jail population to prevent a potentially deadly COVID-19 outbreak. The Laguna Beach City Council on Monday voted 4-0-1, Councilmember George Weiss abstained, to join in an amicus curiae brief to the appellate court that will be authored by Newport...

Laguna Beach Local News Jeffrey and Tracy Katz, owners of 11 Lagunita Drive, were ordered by the Coastal Commission to remove their seawall along Victoria Beach in August 2018. A Laguna Beach couple recently suffered a setback in their effort to overturn the California Coastal Commission’s levy of a $1 million fine for failing to obtain permits to build a seawall at their oceanfront home. On Dec. 4, a three-judge panel with the Fourth Appellate District upheld the Coastal Commission’s fine and a cease and desist order, mandating Jeffrey and Tracy Katz remove the seawall and other improvem...