Gold, green and purple lined every shop, lamppost and alleyway as the Shoreline Village was transformed into the French Quarter of New Orleans in time for the Ninth Annual Mardi Gras Parade.
Claudine Burnett’s “Died in Long Beach: Cemetery Tales” named Sunnyside Cemetery at 1095 E. Willow St. in Long Beach as the most valuable cemetery in the world, owing to its proximity to the Signal Hill 1920s oil boom, estimated at around $100 million.
Faced with a “housing crunch” amid diminishing state and federal funding resources, the Long Beach City Council is considering a bond measure, which would require voter approval, and various policy changes aimed at spurring more affordable housing investment in the city.
On February 17 at approximately 4:45 a.m., Long Beach Police Department SWAT officers were shot at by a suspect as they were serving a high-risk search warrant in the 18000 block of Alexander Avenue in the city of Cerritos. No officers were injured.
The Long Beach City Prosecutor’s Office announced the winners of the Sixth Annual IMPACT Awards, and that one IMPACT award will be named in honor of Police Detective Kim Maddox, who passed away in September 2016 after fighting cancer.
LONG BEACH city officials and commercial real estate developers gathered on Feb. 14 to celebrate the groundbreaking of Long Beach Exchange (LBX), an airport-themed shopping center being built at the corner of Lakewood Boulevard and Carson Street in Douglas Park near Long Beach Airport.
Romance will be in the air when the Long Beach Symphony POPS! orchestra and vocalist Denzal Sinclaire pay tribute to the love songs of American music legend, Nat King Cole, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18 in the Long Beach Arena (300 E. Ocean Blvd.). Concert tickets start at $25.
