The United States Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded Long Beach Airport (LGB) a $15.3 million grant as part of the Airport Improvement Program. The funds will go toward infrastructure improvements to LGB’s busiest Runway 7R-25L.
Timed to follow the final Long Beach Municipal Band concert of the season, the Los Cerritos Neighborhood Association (LCNA) presents a pair of performances by popular local bands.
Two baby Black-Necked Stilts hatched in late June in the Aquarium of the Pacific’s Shorebird Sanctuary exhibit. Gigi, their mother, has lived in this exhibit since it opened in 2002, but this year was the first that she laid eggs and hatched chicks.
As a way to help end homelessness and a housing crisis where apartment vacancy rates remain low while rents continue to rise, the City of Long Beach is looking to roll out an incentive program aimed at encouraging more landlords to accept Section 8 or housing choice vouchers (HCVs).
Oil was discovered in harbor area in 1932. The California State Supreme Court in 1938 ruled that the City of Long Beach could keep the “hidden treasures” found in the tide and submerged lands granted to the city in 1911.
Last year, the voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Vin Scully, retired from a 67-year broadcasting career. There was a tremendous amount of public attention given to this feat.
