What Prop. 50 means for Long Beach, where to vote and other last-minute election questions
Redrawing Long Beach’s congressional lines is a crucial part of Newsom’s plan to boost Democrats in the House. Here’s what to expect on Nov. 4.
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How Long Beach is celebrating Veterans Day: a free festival and banners of local heroes
Long Beach’s Veterans Day celebration will return to Houghton Park on Saturday, Nov. 8 from noon to 4 p.m.
‘I don’t know what we’re going to do.’ Californians fear loss of food aid as shutdown drags on
More than five million low-income Californians — including 93,000 Long Beach residents — are expected to lose their CalFresh food assistance benefits starting Saturday. States are suing the Trump administration to reinstate aid.
Convicted killer confesses to 3 cold-case gang murders, LBPD says
The unsolved slayings stretched back as far as 2004, according to the department.
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Theater News: Neil Simon comedy opens this weekend; Alanis Morissette musical arrives next weekend
Long Beach is lucky. We have a comedy and a musical opening in local theaters in November, one by a Tony Award-winning playwright and the other by a Grammy Award-winning musician.
It’s quaint and it’s dangerous: the Peninsula’s wooden boardwalk to be replaced
A petition has sprung up to keep the wooden boardwalk instead of replacing it with composite material.
Long Beach to push for tighter rules on LA River trash, try to catch more garbage floating downstream
The move comes amid growing frustration that the city is unfairly burdened by other people’s litter washing ashore.
Long Beach settles lawsuit alleging problem LBPD officer shot man from behind
It’s the latest major settlement tied to a Long Beach police officer who racked up accusations about his credibility and use of force.
Curfew suggested for Second Street bars after fatal shooting in Belmont Shore
Friends on Monday mourned 32-year-old Jeremy Spears, a Long Beach man who, according to police, was gunned down after an incident at a local bar.
California Latinos take pride in casting ballots in person. ICE at polls could deter that
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly warned, without evidence, that immigration agents could show up at polling sites the way they did at the launch for Proposition 50. Community members and local leaders say those fears are real.