Long Beach News

The Port of Long Beach's board of harbor commissioners has approved a $1.02 billion budget for fiscal year 2014.

The City Council voted 9-0 Tuesday to approve a $1.38 million contract with Santa Ana-based The Planning Center/DC&E to overhaul the Southeast Area Development and Improvement Plan, or SEADIP, a set of regulations that control development in a roughly 1,500-acre area along the city's southeast coast.

The editors of Scientific American regularly encounter perspectives on science and technology that we believe our readers would find thought-provoking, fascinating, debatable and challenging.

Members of the Bentley Drivers Club proved that again with their annual driving tour.

If you believe the New York Times , the arrival of "latched" gates at our subway stations this summer is a "milestone," a sign that L.A. is entering municipal adulthood and becoming more like our vastly superior East Coast counterparts.

Business leaders from the South Bay and Long Beach gather at the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce for a press conference to oppose Assembly Bill 880.

Fraud Detail detectives issued a warning Tuesday that home rental scams are targeting a large number of prospective tenants, leading to the loss of their fees.

It's the sadly abandoned building that attempted to be M.C. Escher-like but ended up looking more like a forrest green and maroon mess.

A bicyclist who died after he was struck by a car Saturday in Pasadena has been identified.

An icon of both history and of the city of Long Beach , the Queen Mary still commands appreciation after her steady decline from a much grander youth.

During the school lunch period, a small boy went from table to table collecting carrots from fellow students and putting them in his pocket.

Container cargo rose by more than 17 percent in May 2013 at the Port of Long Beach, with some of the highest volumes in nearly 3 years.

Bullard High School valedictorian Tate Lone was named a President's Scholar and awarded a full, four-year scholarship from California State University, Long Beach on Sunday, university spokeswoman Valerie Bordeaux said.

Byron Clift Breland will take his post on June 24, replacing Barbara Kavalier, who has taken a position at a college in her home state of Texas, according to the announcement Monday from the San Jose-Evergreen Community College District.

LONG BEACH >> Damon Dunn, a former NFL player running for mayor next year, has snagged the endorsement of the political action committee of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.

The Port of Long Beach reported May container volume totaling 583,588 20-foot-equivalent units, up 17.2 percent compared to the same month last year and the highest monthly container volume since October 2010.

The College of Engineering at California State University, Long Beach recently received three grants for summer programs to encourage young girls to consider studying for the field of engineering.

Nordstrom announced plans to close its Long Beach City Place Nordstrom Rack store in Long Beach, Calif.

Two people died in a crash between a motorcycle and a minivan at an intersection in Long Beach on Monday, June 17, 2013.

TPR stepped up to the challenge, well equipped to satisfy the demands of the project, making sure all of the correct equipment was promptly delivered to the Long Beach job site.