Residents as far north as Long Beach reported feeling light shaking from the quake.
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Water, sewer, gas customers to pay roughly $9 more per month next year
The Board of Utilities Commissioners approved the increases for fiscal year 2024-2025, which begins Oct. 1.
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Long Beach’s inflatable, floating playgrounds open June 14
Two beaches are getting the floating play structures for another summer.
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Why increasing penalties for assaulting ER workers is dividing California Democrats
A bill that would increase penalties for those who assault hospital emergency department workers is facing the same pushback that other recent tough-on-crime legislation has from progressive Democrats leery of increasing incarceration rates.
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Long Beach is trying to suppress violence this summer by focusing on local youth
After a rise in shootings across Long Beach this year, the city is rolling out new programs and policing strategies officials hope will reduce the violence.
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Weekend closure planned for 91 Freeway interchange in Long Beach
The closure is needed for work to partially replace the bridge deck on the interchange, a $4.5 million project funded by the state.
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Rubio’s files for bankruptcy, closes Belmont Shore store and 23 other LA-area locations
The company said rising food and utility costs, along with “significant increases to the minimum wage in California,” put pressure on a number of restaurants.
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Long Beach releases data on e-scooter crashes as it weighs allowing them on beach bike path
Electric scooters are involved in an average of 22 crashes per year — usually with cars.
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He slept in a park across from LBCC; today he graduates from that college
Christopher Bryant started attending classes while living in his car. Now, he’s graduating with a 3.9 GPA and an acceptance letter from UCLA.
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Wilson High’s Lashinda Demus will finally receive Olympic gold at ceremony in Paris
Demus took second in the 2012 400-meter hurdles to an athlete who was later disqualified for doping. With that wrong righted, she’ll officially be the first American gold medalist in the race.