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06/08/2026 - 10:35am
Long Beach City Officials, accompanied by members of Linc Housing, celebrated the groundbreaking of the city’s newest affordable housing project, set in the Zaferia neighborhood of East Long Beach on May 29.
Officially named Thrive, the new 73-unit apartment complex is the first of its kind to be developed in Long Beach’s Third District, following the city’s redrawing of its district barriers in...
06/06/2026 - 5:41pm
The Long Beach Coast made their first home game in franchise history memorable by coasting through the RedPocket Mobiles, winning 13-4 at a sold-out Bohl Diamond at Blair Field on June 2.
The Coast extended their winning streak to seven games and improving to 10-3 in the Pioneer League.
More than 3,000 fans filled the revamped ballpark, transitioning from the traditional championship black and...
06/05/2026 - 8:55am
The Port of Long Beach is preparing for what it calls the Pier Wind project, a major terminal for offshore wind turbines that could provide many new jobs to the local community and help California hits its clean energy targets.
The proposed Floating Offshore Wind Staging and Integration facility – known as Pier Wind – would allow for the assembly of offshore wind turbines “standing as tall as the...
06/03/2026 - 2:32pm
There is a lot to be discovered along Route 66 as I found out while researching this article. Did you know that at first neither Los Angeles nor Santa Monica were considered part of the official route; that Long Beach was given recognition in 1932 as being a co-terminus of the road, along with Santa Monica? If you think I may have confused things with Route 6 (the Grand Army of the Republic...
05/28/2026 - 4:10pm
There’s not much dignity in being a jellyfish.
Yet the spineless, brainless, heartless sea creatures – which can be torn apart by a tide current – have lasted more than 500 million years, appearing well before dinosaurs and outlasting them by a wide margin, too.
It’s a mystery how these hypnotic, gelatinous blobs have made it this far, one that an exhibition in Long Beach is more than happy...
05/27/2026 - 12:06pm
Utility rates will likely go up again in Long Beach with some of the water supply coming from the hotly contested Colorado River.
That water comes to Long Beach and several other cities through the Metropolitan Water District of Los Angeles, which in April voted to raise rates 6.2% at the beginning of 2027, and at that same rate increase a year later. The city of Long Beach gets about 20% of its...
05/15/2026 - 5:50pm
The City of Long Beach canceled the 2026 Long Beach Pride Festival on May 15, just thirty minutes before the “Teen Pride” celebration was set to begin at Marina Green Park. This decision was due to a lack of documentation needed for the event. However, the annual Long Beach Pride Parade still took place as scheduled on May 17 along Ocean Boulevard.
The Long Beach Office of Special Events and...
05/06/2026 - 8:20am
Without a doubt, one of our most intractable problems is supplying housing to all who need it. Some among us have found a solution, but the solution is not local. Instead, it works in certain parts of Baja California.
On hardscape hillside between Tijuana and Tecate, small wood-framed houses dot the dusty lots, simple, boxy, brightly painted. They represent the work of a small band of workers,...
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