Long Beach’s new baseball team finally has a name — actually, two different names
There’s an official name and an “alter ego” for the minor league team, set to start playing in May.
Police say they led multi-agency crackdown on 2nd Street bars after shooting but found no violations
Residents have been pushing police to rein in rowdy nightlife in Belmont Shore after a recent murder.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth visits Long Beach-based Rocket Lab as part of his ‘Arsenal of Freedom Tour’
Hegseth addressed Rocket Lab employees as part of his campaign to build enthusiasm for the nation’s manufacturing and defense sectors.
Newsom casts California as a foil to the Trump agenda in his final State of the State
Newsom touted a 9% reduction in unsheltered homelessness, but lawmakers were restrained in their responses to him claiming success on the issue.
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Newsom proposes governor controls the California Department of Education
Under the shift, the state superintendent of public instruction would have a different role.
Driver in double-fatal hit-and-run also killed bicyclist months earlier, prosecutor says
She’d been released after being arrested on suspicion of reckless driving. The District Attorney’s office now wants her held without bail, saying she’s “a huge risk to the community.”
This change could deliver billions of more dollars to California schools. Here’s the tradeoff
By basing funding on enrollment, not attendance numbers, schools would lose the incentive to get students to show up every day, a new report finds.
While living in his car, LBCC student launches campus club to support his homeless classmates
There are hundreds of students with unstable housing at Long Beach City College, but there was no club specifically aimed at helping them and destigmatizing their struggle. Edgar Rosales changed…
World Famous VIP Records sign will have new home at city park to be named in its honor
The sign has been in storage for years, even as tourists travel from around the world hoping to see it and the music shop that helped launch genre-defining artists.
Long Beach man agrees to plead guilty to charges that he built bomb, sought to aid ISIS terrorists
Prosecutors alleged he tried to send money to the terrorist organization and pledged that, “Someday soon, I’ll be joining.”
Planet Books, a cavernous haven for used books and collectables, must move or face closure
After nearly three decades, a forced relocation and dramatically higher rents have thrown its future into uncertainty.