A new webinar series aiming to assist small business owners starts today, thanks to the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce and DeVry University's Keller Graduate School of Management.

Virgin Orbit has signed a launch services agreement with UK-based company Junior Astronaut, the space launch company announced Friday, Jan. 8.
On Jan. 1, 1896, a group calling itself the Long Beach Library Association opened the city's first library in a small building on Ocean Boulevard.
Virtual classes from Amazing Americans to Strength Training will be offered this spring semester at Long Beach City College's Lifetime Learning Center.
It’s the last week of 2020, and this seemingly endless year is finally coming to a close. Although this is usually the season for retrospection and reflection, it’s honestly hard to even put myself back into my January mindset. Looking at photos from the first few months of this year seem to…
Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $2 billion proposal on Wednesday, Dec. 30, to encourage school districts to bring back elementary school students as soon as February.
Melinda Lankford first heard of the problem while she handed out food at the Salvation Army's food bank in North Long Beach.
Did you hear the story about the locally world-famous comedian Gabriel Iglesias showing up at a taping of a Nickelodeon show at a Long Beach middle school and surprising the students with a check for $25,000?
Earlier this week, LBUSD announced that we will continue with distance learning until at least March 1, postponing our previous re-opening date of Jan. 28. I heard the news during my 5th period class on Monday, and I shared it with my students.
For the 25 years of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute's (OLLI) existence, computer classes have been among the most popular courses offered.
Most Long Beach students won’t return to campuses until at least March 1 — nearly a year after in-person learning stopped amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
It took 10 years, but Longfellow Elementary School — located in the Cal Heights neighborhood — has a brand new playground space thanks to the persistence of the school's Parent Teacher Association (PTA) members and some help from grants.
“When you have a chance to make someone’s day a bit brighter, your day brightens up too,” Naples Elementary School teacher Karen Rodgers said.
I’ve thought and written multiple times about how resilient this generation of LBUSD students is. I tell my students daily that I am proud of them, that I’m impressed by them, and that I don’t know that I could’ve been half as successful if I’d been in similar circumstances as a teenager.
Long Beach City College is celebrating the $29 million renovation of the Liberal Arts Campus Auditorium with a virtual ribbon cutting ceremony, happening at 10 a.m. today, Thursday, Dec. 10, online at lbcc.edu and youtube.com/LongBeachCityCollege.
I instruct my students to avoid clichés in their writing, but here’s the truth: I woke up on the first day of Thanksgiving Break feeling grateful. My husband was reading in bed next to me, my kids were foraging breakfast for themselves in the living room, and I was layered under multiple bla…
The Nonprofit Partnership in Long Beach is accepting applications for the 2021 Emerging Leaders Program.
Schools have rushed to deliver students the technology to support distance learning during the coronavirus pandemic. But the technology divide between persists, leaving low-income students without the tools necessary to succeed.
I want to compose a poem: an ode to the unexpected, a tribute to the unscripted. To the small surprises and frustrations that used to spell “normal” just last year.
The California State University system has a new Center to Close the Opportunity Gap housed at its Long Beach campus.
Long Beach will provide students from kindergarten through eighth grade with high speed internet access and afterschool activities through the end of the year at city park community centers.
Education doesn't end when the school day is over.
An investigation into Long Beach City College’s former superintendent-president found she misused her office on multiple occasions, including using staff for personal errands and breaching her fiduciary duty to the community college district that oversees LBCC, according to a court filing th…
In fall 2000, I’m a junior in high school, still a year and a half away from voting age. My mom plays KFWB — with its terse, hurried headlines and “traffic on the ones” — in the kitchen while she makes lunch. My dad sometimes tunes in to AM talk radio on the way to dropping me off at school,…
Managers at many nonprofit organizations have had to scramble to manage staff since the coronavirus shutdown sent employees home to work.
Even in a pandemic, life continues to move forward, and Bixby Elementary School parents are doing their best to raise money for school projects and events, considering they aren't able to host events themselves.
My incredibly sweet, ridiculously silly daughter is turning 5 this week, and I’m taking a personal day off of work to celebrate with her. This year’s celebration will look a little different, of course, but there will still be a lot of cake, some presents, and fond memories of the journey fr…
“Brain-Changing Strategies to Trauma-Proof Our Schools: A Heart-Centered Movement for Wiring Well-Being” isn’t exactly the type of title that will have most book lovers searching online or scurrying to the local bookstore.
It takes a village to build new learning avenues and help students thrive, and in Long Beach, city utility departments have teamed up to provide free learning material for Long Beach Unified School District teachers and families.
Long Beach State's Daily Forty-Niner, the official student news outlet, won the national Pacemaker award last week at the virtual ACP-CMA fall national convention.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Long Beach Unified School District will receive a $140,000 grant to help feed students in need from the nonprofit No Kid Hungry California.
I am not ashamed to admit that my 7-year-old son is my hero.
The Long Beach Unified School District will have to make some more room in its trophy case because two more schools have been selected as national Blue Ribbon schools by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The recognition is based on a school’s overall academic performance or progress i…
A coronavirus outbreak at Cal State Long Beach has grown to include 17 confirmed, related cases, officials announced Tuesday evening, Sept. 29.
On-campus students at Cal State Long Beach must heed quarantine orders or they could face disciplinary action, a university official said Sunday, a day after the quarantine went into effect after five students tested positive for COVID-19.
Voters in the Long Beach Unified School District’s Area 2 are set to choose a new board member in the Nov. 3 elections.
Every day, I ask my students to check in with me in the Zoom chat box by responding to a quick “temperature check” prompt. I ask them how they’re feeling, what they’re worried about, or to name something that they’re looking forward to doing. Sometimes the prompts are fun (I had them choose …
The first-ever California native and Mexican-American to lead the system, Joseph I. Castro will serve as the eighth chancellor for California State universities starting Jan. 4.
After construction began in 2018 on a new Main Library downtown, Long Beach Public Library Foundation board members decided to launch a capital campaign to help improve the facility.
It’s a few minutes before 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10. I’m sitting in my classroom, Zooming my heart out, when it happens.
One week down for this new school year. On Sept. 1, I met 160 new teenagers and, however imperfectly, we made it through our first four days together. It’s my natural impulse to catalog the challenges and glitches, but I’m making an effort over the three-day weekend to dwell for a few moment…
The Long Beach Unified School District will continue with online classes through Jan. 28 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the district's superintendent announced Thursday.
Laurie Zaleski spent much of her life traveling as a marine geologist, conducting geological surveys and mapping the ocean floor.
Literally hundreds of neighborhood advocates and activists have got their start in the Long Beach Neighborhood Leadership Program since 1992, and a little thing like a pandemic wasn't going to get in the way of another class graduating in 2020.
YMCAs across the country have offered summer day camps for generations, and now the YMCA of Greater Long Beach is going to combine that approach with support for remote learning.
For the last eight years, Eighth District City Councilman Al Austin has taken over a park as students prepared to go back to school to give away free backpacks, school supplies and more.