An ongoing power outage in downtown Long Beach has forced government services and small businesses to close as electricians try to restore power. An equipment failure in the underground electrical vaults started a fire, which caused the power outage at 3:08 p.m. Wednesday, and has cut off service to several[Read More…]
Long Beach
Any off-campus news. Events that happen off-campus or news that affect/interest the greater Long Beach community fall under this category.
California drought budget drying up
Despite a lack of funds from the Southern California department the City of Long Beach will still help fund residential turf removal projects. As of last week, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California exhausted its entire turf removal budget, and as a result, will no longer fund any turf[Read More…]
Baby, this is a firework
In Long Beach, playing pyrotechnician is illegal. The city prohibits the sale and use of firework products and instead encourages residents to attend local firework events if they wish to watch aerial displays. Meanwhile, in the neighboring city of Lakewood, TNT Fireworks, one of the largest firework distributors in the[Read More…]
CSULB, LBPD ink internship commitment
California State University, Long Beach and the Long Beach Police Department announced a comprehensive partnership on June 24, which is aimed to expand internships and hands-on opportunities for CSULB students. The new relationship give CSULB students a chance to engage in forensics work and research new policing strategies, training and[Read More…]
Rain, rain, stay away: LB beaches make the grade
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…]
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…]