Private steps descend to the backyard and beach below, accessible by land only to residents of the guard-gated community.

A house in Lake Arrowhead with spalike amenities, a Craftsman in Mill Valley and a contemporary house in Laguna Beach.

A woman who owns a multimillion-dollar property on the shores of Laguna Beach in California has unleashed on a family sitting on the sand in front of her home. The public beach area butts up against ...

A portion of beach was closed Friday following a landslide on a bluff below homes in Laguna Beach. Part of the bluff collapsed onto the shore at 9th Street Beach, temporarily closing the area. Rocks ...

Evacuations were ordered Monday afternoon as firefighters battled a brush fire, believed to be fireworks related, that burned near homes in Laguna Beach. The Rancho Fire was first reported at about ...

Fireworks are the suspected cause of a brush fire that ignited in a hilly area of Laguna Beach on Monday afternoon, prompting evacuation orders for a few hundred homes, officials said. The Rancho fire ...

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For the uninitiated, Laguna Beach is Southern California at its most postcard-worthy, a stretch of the Orange County coastline filled with frothy waves, winding canyons and afternoon beachgoers. Yet ...