It’s a reversal from 2024 when city officials celebrated a small decline in homelessness.
Massive military training exercise with simulated attacks arrives at Port of Long Beach
As part of Operation Mojave Falcon, Army Reserve soldiers will practice loading and unloading cargo from a ship that’s under fire.
Severe toxic algae bloom that sickened or killed hundreds of marine animals appears to be subsiding
The Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro said this was “the longest, most toxic, and deadliest bloom” it’s ever experienced.
Man fires gun into the air during altercation on popular stretch of 2nd Street, LBPD says
It happened around 12:30 a.m. Sunday in the 5200 block of E Second Street, in the middle of Belmont Shore’s popular nightlife district.
Wayfarers Chapel finds potential new home in Rancho Palos Verdes
Accelerated land movements forced the dismantling of the Lloyd Wright building last year, with the intention of reconstructing the chapel in a new location.
New bike lanes, half a dozen crosswalks, 400 trees: The remade Artesia Boulevard is complete
The roadway had been a “high-injury corridor” for pedestrians and bicyclists. A $44.2 million project just added a bevy of safety improvements.
Efilism, the ideology behind the Palm Springs bombing, has been spread online for years
The deceased suspect in the bombing of a Palm Springs fertility clinic on May 17 espoused an “anti-life” ideology called “efilism” that was invented by Gary Mosher, a 65-year-old New Jersey man who has spent years promoting his views in hundreds of YouTube videos. Guy Edward Bartkus, 25, who injured four bystanders and killed himself […]
As the space business scales in Long Beach, major companies say they need workers
Executives on a panel Friday praised Long Beach for welcoming the space industry, but they said the workforce for these high-tech jobs needs to grow.
Trump Administration names Long Beach as a sanctuary city that could soon face penalties
Long Beach was specifically called out as a jurisdiction that undermines immigration enforcement. A city spokesman said Long Beach “does not obstruct federal law enforcement in any way.”
Medicaid work rules could leave a million Californians with no health insurance
A proposal in Congress would require some adults to document 80 hours a month of work or school. Experts say the red tape and paperwork is so cumbersome that even people who work will lose their health insurance.