The city has launched a survey to gauge community members’ knowledge and perceptions of homelessness in Long Beach, which officials said will help inform response efforts and guide how resources are allocated moving forward.
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Parents, staff push back against LBUSD plan that would leave some schools without librarians
Parents and teacher-librarians, who are credentialed to educate kids with no teacher supervision, showed up in force to last night’s board meeting to protest the change in policy for library staffing, arguing that it would remove needed resources from district students.
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Long Beach police schedule St. Patrick’s Day DUI checkpoint
The exact location for the checkpoint was not released, but the LBPD said it would set up from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. in the city’s South Division, which includes West and Downtown Long Beach.
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Science-backed tips for losing weight after 50
Five top tips give you the tools you need to reach your goals and get moving!
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Carver Elementary School ordered to close amid norovirus outbreak
Carver Elementary School has been ordered to close for multiple days starting Friday, weeks after officials began detecting an increase in norovirus among students and staff.
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Newsom to propose building 1,200 small houses to ease homeless crisis
Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will pay to build and install the 1,200 small homes, which can be put up quickly and placed on public land to house people living in encampments along roads and rivers.
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Man heads to hospital after being shot near PCH and Pine, police say
Yellow police tape blocked off the parking lot of Mike’s Liquor Wednesday evening as authorities investigated the shooting.
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Police pursuit ends at parking structure near Traffic Circle
A police chase that started in West Covina ended in Long Beach Wednesday after a burglary suspect led pursuing officers to a parking structure near Ximeno Way.
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18,000-gallon sewage spill prompts swimming-area closures west of Belmont Pier
Officials say the spill originated in Paramount and was the result of the heavy rainfall causing a sewer to overflow.
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Queen Mary tours to resume in April, new GM says
Work is still underway to get the historic Queen Mary shipshape, but officials expect to reopen for tours within weeks, Steve Caloca, the ship’s new general manager, said Wednesday.