The number of older adults with disabilities — difficulty with walking, seeing, hearing, memory, cognition, or performing daily tasks such as bathing or using the bathroom — will soar in the decades ahead.
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MLB players the d’Arnaud brothers open baseball academy in Long Beach
The brothers have a combined 14 years of experience playing in Major League Baseball and are using that knowledge to foster the next generation of ball players in their hometown.
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Performing arts preview: Your guide to the 2024 concert season
Concert season is here. Here’s what everyone from the Long Beach Symphony to Musical Theatre West have billed.
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CSU faculty plan to strike Monday. Here’s what to expect in Long Beach
The union is demanding a 12% salary increase. The strike, which could disrupt classes, is planned to start Monday and last through Friday.
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Planning Commission approves 32-unit townhome project in Bixby Knolls
The new townhomes will be built at the southwest corner of San Antonio Drive and Orange Avenue where there are currently two commercial buildings and a small park.
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‘Emergency’ or not, COVID is still killing people. Here’s what doctors advise to stay safe.
With changes in the nature of the pandemic and the response, KFF Health News spoke with doctors and researchers about how to best handle covid, influenza, and other respiratory ailments spreading this season.
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Man guilty of kidnapping 13-year-old girl who held up ‘help me’ sign before her rescue
The 62-year-old defendant admitted to holding the girl at gunpoint and sexually assaulting her before she was rescued in Long Beach.
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8 possibly sickened by raw oysters in Long Beach; city urges caution
More than 150 illnesses have been reported throughout Southern California and officials are asking residents to avoid eating certain types of raw oysters.
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Long Beach man gets life in prison plus 30 years for bombing ex-girlfriend’s Orange County spa
A judge handed down the sentence after federal prosecutors argued the defendant’s “callousness, depravity, and complete disregard for human life was sociopathic.”
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California ends COVID isolation rule for asymptomatic cases as winter infections climb
California relaxed its COVID-19 isolation guidelines just as infections for the respiratory virus increased. Symptom-free people can go to work or school.