True to their name, many of 2020’s early voters showed up to voting centers before they even opened on Saturday, Oct. 24, the first day of in-person balloting in Los Angeles County.
Breast cancer strikes approximately one in eight women. It is the second most common cancer in American women; more than 42,000 U.S. breast cancer deaths are projected in 2020.
For the last 25 years or so, the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce has had its own Political Action Committee (PAC) to raise money and endorse candidates and propositions.
Downtown Long Beach businesses have been hit hard by the coronavirus-induced recession — but the struggling economy hasn’t resulted in a major surge of empty storefronts in the area.
Long Beach City College gave away 100 more Chromebooks and 50 more hotspots to students on Friday, Oct. 9, thanks to a $25,000 donation from an anonymous donor to the LBCC Foundation.
For much of the year, the country’s economic outlook has been grim, with the coronavirus pandemic sweeping through the U.S., taking a major toll on jobs, commerce — and the collective mood.
Atlantic Avenue soon will be one lane in each direction in Bixby Knolls.
Ears Lowered?
The city of Long Beach is looking for volunteers to help tally the number of bicyclists, pedestrians and e-scooter riders across intersections in the city for the annual count.
Long Beach police are looking for a suspected hit-and-run driver who they say left a 56-year-old Bellflower woman to die.
On Saturday afternoon, Oct. 10, surrounded by close family, Charles Merrill departed this world. He was 86 years old.
On the former NBC sitcom "Parks and Recreation," Pawnee city employees devoted an entire day to over-the-top spending and personal pampering. The characters’ catchphrase, “treat yo self,” instantly became a part of popular culture.
At least two local elections coming up in Long Beach on Nov. 3 have been impacted by what appears to be impersonations of candidates and current officials seeking to influence the campaigns. The impersonations, according to City Prosecutor Doug Haubert, are likely illegal.
Born and raised in Long Beach, Tito Rodriguez — often referred to as the city's "Hood Santa" — has been helping people around his neighborhood for as long as he can remember.
Both the Long Beach Public Library Foundation and the Friends of the Long Beach Public Library are nonprofit organizations, and as such are not allowed to endorse candidates in elections.
As educators, even in normal years, it often seems as if every moment of our lives from September to June is spent in front of an audience. Not just an audience — an audience of teenagers, who are mostly kind and caring, but for whom even the tiniest morsels of their teachers’ private lives …
The Long Beach College Promise, the future of virtual learning and the role of police on campus were just some of the topics discussed during a Wednesday evening, Oct. 14, debate among the three candidates vying to represent Area 4 on the Long Beach Community College District board.
Like seemingly every other event amid the coronavirus pandemic, AIDS Walk Long Beach is going virtual — mostly.
For the past 24 years, the Historical Society of Long Beach (HSLB) has shared local lore in a unique way. Each October, the group has re-enacted meaningful moments in Historical Cemetery Tours.
Even in a pandemic, the Long Beach arts scene continues to move forward and figure out how to be innovative.
Two candidates vying to represent Area 2 on the Long Beach Unified School District board, Erik Miller and Tonia Reyes Uranga, faced off in a live-streamed debate Monday evening, Oct. 12, where they discussed equity, finances, the achievement gap and more.
Windes has been name the top public accounting firm in the 2020 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles-Medium Companies. The awards program was created by the Los Angeles Business Journal and Best Companies Group. Windes has offices in Long Beach, Los Angeles and Orange County.
The Press-Telegram, Grunion Gazette, Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal have partnered to present live-streamed debates of the candidates vying to win seats on the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education, the Long Beach Community College District Board of Trustees …
A Holiday Inn in Central Long Beach will likely soon become permanent housing for those who are homeless.
Southeast Long Beach, including the Los Cerritos Wetlands, now has a new master zoning plan that should allow some redevelopment to begin.
Long Beach Unified School District will receive a $140,000 grant to help feed students in need from the nonprofit No Kid Hungry California.
Voters in Long Beach’s Sixth District have a decision to make in the Nov. 3 elections: Keep Dee Andrews as their representative on the City Council, or choose Cal State Los Angeles adjunct professor Suely Saro to fill the seat.
California's Office of Historic Preservation has sided with Native American tribes trying to force Cal State Long Beach to clean up construction debris dumped on Puvungna, a 22-acre parcel on campus considered sacred to the Gabrielino/Tongva tribe and others.
Property owner Kurt Schneiter has been elected the new board president of the Belmont Shore Business Association, and he says he wants to get Second Street moving again.
The Press-Telegram, Grunion Gazette, Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal have partnered to present live-streamed debates of the candidates vying to win seats on the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education, the Long Beach Community College District Board of Trustees …
The Last Rant
There were the usual cigarette butts and bottle caps that made the Top 10 list.
The city's Technology and Innovation Department (TI) is launching a new Digital Inclusion Resources Hotline to help connect the community with a variety of resources and services, including computers, low-cost internet services and more.
I am not ashamed to admit that my 7-year-old son is my hero.
Pop, rock and a little bit of Bach.
Candidates hoping to represent Long Beach’s Eighth District shared their plans on a variety of local issues, including how they would address homelessness, police reform and economic recovery in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, in a Thursday, Oct. 8 debate.
A 2005 sexual assault changed the life of 24-year-old Shangrila Rendon. The attack, which triggered flashbacks of her childhood sexual abuse, sent her into a downward spiral.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Dee Andrews, the incumbent in the race for the Long Beach City Council’s Sixth District seat, said Wednesday, Oct. 7, that while the district has made progress, there’s still unfinished business.
The southern water entrance to the Naples Canals from Alamitos Bay is open again after a year of construction to repair and replace more than 2,000 feet of seawall.
Teachers Bank
Long Beach Transit is expanding its bus service with longer service hours and extra frequency on its current routes.
The Press-Telegram, Grunion Gazette, Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal have partnered to present live-streamed debates of the candidates vying to win seats on the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education, the Long Beach Community College District Board of Trustees …
The Press-Telegram, Grunion Gazette, Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal have partnered to present live-streamed debates of the candidates vying to win seats on the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education, the Long Beach Community College District Board of Trustees …
The Press-Telegram, Grunion Gazette, Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal have partnered to present live-streamed debates of the candidates vying to win seats on the Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education, the Long Beach Community College District Board of Trustees …
The new owners of Cindy Allen’s former business, ETA Advertising, have sued the Long Beach City Council candidate, arguing she misled them and breached the terms of their contract when she sold the business.
Long Beach will soon have another tool to help combat homelessness.
The date is set, and for the first time in more than a decade, live network television coverage has been secured.
Long Beach Animal Care Services (ACS) continues to operate through the pandemic — but with a few adjustments to account for safe social distancing.
Voters in Long Beach’s Eighth District will choose in the Nov. 3 elections who should represent them for the next four years on the City Council: incumbent Al Austin or nonprofit director Tunua Thrash-Ntuk.