It is not often that a drought means good things for California. However, this year the lack of rainfall has helped to better the beaches in Long Beach, according to a report on water quality by Heal the Bay. The 25th annual Beach Report Card released by Heal the Bay[Read More…]
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Protestors march on downtown Long Beach
Starting their march at Lincoln Park in downtown Long Beach, hundreds of protestors made their way to Pine and Broadway on Saturday, where they stayed for nearly half an hour chanting. Cars honked at the crowd before turning around to find alternate routes, while police officers on bicycles closed off[Read More…]
Long Beach rallies for shooting victims
For the second time in less than two weeks, protesters will gather at Lincoln Park and march to the Long Beach Police department headquarters. The families and friends of Hector Morejon, 19, and Feras Morad, 20, both fatally shot in separate incidents by LBPD officers earlier this year, will be[Read More…]
LBPD release 911 call on fatally shot student
The Long Beach Police Department released Wednesday the recording of the initial 911 phone call about Feras Morad, a Woodland Hills native who the LBPD fatally shot on 15th Street last week. The person making the phone call reported Morad as “intoxicated” and “maybe a little bit” violent, though police[Read More…]
New Long Beach website unveiled
A picture of the Long Beach Pike on a bright, sunny day fills the homepage for the new website for the city of Long Beach, which Mayor Robert Garcia debuted June 1 in a press conference at City Hall. To remodel the website, Garcia said his team completely started over[Read More…]
Reburial uncovers Long Beach land
Archaeologists disturbed at least 20 individuals aged 800 years old during a dig in 1952, but within the next year they will be laid back to rest. Dr. Carl Lipo, an archaeology professor at California State University, Long Beach, recruited students for his spring 2015 Anthropology 450 class to excavate[Read More…]
Tour of Long Beach cycles across the city for charity
Childhood cancers make up less than 1 percent of all cancers diagnosed each year, yet over 10,000 children in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer in 2015, according to the American Cancer Society. The Tour of Long Beach on Saturday helped raise funding for research on pediatric cancer[Read More…]
Mayor Garcia plans to provide every homeless vet with a place to live
Mayor Robert Garcia has made it his goal to sleep veterans in beds rather than on Long Beach’s hard concrete. “No veteran of the American armed forces should ever be without a home,” Mayor Garcia said in a public address on April 29. “Every single veteran deserves a place to[Read More…]
Smart meters reporting water wasters
People can now be fined for watering their lawns. The Board of Water Commissioners declared an Imminent Water Supply Stage 3 Shortage this week, limiting the number of days that residents and businesses can water landscape in Long Beach. “We have been using smart meter technology to take action on[Read More…]
‘Water’ those smells?
Some Long Beach residents have experienced unpleasant odors in their tap water, and the Long Beach Water Department is blaming it on hydrogen sulfide. The LBWD acknowledged the problem in a statement released Monday, which said that some of the local wells treated by the Groundwater Treatment Plant have low[Read More…]