In a city renowned for its numerous off-road footpaths, Robert Winters is among those who call Laguna Niguel’s Long View Trail — with its stunning ocean views — the most beautiful. So it was a rude ...

What started as a small brush fire fueled by coastal winds quickly spread into an upscale Laguna Niguel subdivision, burning at least 20 homes and forcing many to flee. The Coastal fire grew to 200 ...

Evacuations were ordered as at least 20 homes burned in a Laguna Niguel neighborhood where a wildfire fanned by ocean winds scorched a brush-covered hillside. Evacuations were ordered in the Coronado ...

The Coastal fire raced up a rugged canyon Wednesday afternoon with menacing speed. Soon, flames pushed past a dirt trail and began licking up onto the edge of a row of sprawling ocean-view homes in ...

The Coastal fire in Laguna Niguel sent hundreds fleeing their homes, but the toll was most devastating on one block. At the crest of a canyon overlooking the Pacific Ocean, fire raced up and burned ...

An upscale Southern California waterfront neighborhood was evacuated Wednesday after a wildfire fanned by ocean winds burned at least 20 homes, reports said. The blaze in Laguna Niguel was first ...

Aerial view of two homes on Via Estoril in Laguna Niguel that fell in 1998 when a rain-soaked hillside collapsed. (Geraldine Wilkins–Kasinga / Los Angeles Times) In 1998, after a winter of heavy rains ...