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CSULB nursing students don their white coats for the first time

The logo on a white coatsof the nursing student at CSULB. The donning of the white coat marks the beginning of students nursing careers outside the classroom and is symbolic of their first steps out into the community to care for patients. Long Beach, Aug. 24, 2024. (Photo by Stephanie E’amato, Contributing Photographer)
Cal State Long Beach celebrates Nursing Students receive their white medical coat. The donning of the white coat marks the beginning of their nursing career outside the classroo...
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Ready, set, pull: Teams tug plane to raise funds for Special Olympics

Special Olympics Southern California athletes team up to pull a 62-ton UPS 757 jet 12 feet on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at Long Beach Airport. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Youngsters pull a CHP 3,800-pound Gipps Airvan at Special Olympics Southern California’s annual Plane Pull benefit on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, at Long Beach Airport. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Kaiser Permanente employees pull a 62-ton UPS 757 jet 12 feet at Special Olympics So...
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Long Beach may layoff up to 73 Health Department workers amid budget crisis

A little more than 70 jobs within Long Beach’s Department of Health and Human Services are at risk of being reduced — or completely cut — as the city grapples with its ongoing budgetary crisis and the loss of pandemic-era funding.A majority of the 73 total jobs on the chopping block, according to a Tuesday, Aug. 20, city memo, are housed within the health department’s Communicable Disease and Emergency Response Bureau.Another three are in the Community Health Bureau, while four are in the Collec...
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5 things to know as Intuit Dome opens its glossy, high-tech doors

What’s shiny silver during the day and gives off an eye-popping lights show after dark, cost $2 billion to build, is powered by the sun, and promises to give 17,700 fans each a perfect view of a stellar show?Nope, it’s not the latest starship from SpaceX.Welcome to the posh new palace on Prairie Avenue — Inglewood’s new Intuit Dome, the latest jewel in the crown of the Hollywood Park sports and entertainment complex.The area opens Thursday night with a performance by Bruno Mars. The NBA’s Los An...
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Long Beach will wield new citation power to clear homeless encampments ‘when appropriate,’ memo says

Long Beach will ticket unhoused people sleeping in public places — particularly, in encampments — in certain situations, according to a recent city memo.The city announced the change to its strategy to address homelessness on Monday, Aug. 2, a couple of months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson.That ruling, released in late June, overturned a previous legal precedent which prevented cities from citing people for sleeping or camping in public without offering adequa...
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Long Beach may refocus tiny homes project on housing LBCC students

The focus of Long Beach’s tiny home project, originally planned to provide housing for the general population of people experiencing homelessness, may soon shift to sheltering students facing housing insecurity.The city initially announced the plan to develop 33 tiny homes at the Multi-Service Center — Long Beach’s homeless services hub — in February 2023.But by November, Long Beach scrapped the plans to build the tiny home community at that location, citing concerns that the project would inter...
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$2 billion Intuit Dome, opening Aug. 15 in Inglewood, makes fan experience the star of the show

Inglewood is just about ready to celebrate another significant milestone — one that will continue to elevate the city’s international presence as a can’t-miss entertainment and sports venue.Related: See hi-res infographic of Intuit DomeThe Intuit Dome, a $2 billion state-of-the-art basketball arena and concert venue that’s been in the works since 2021, will open with plenty of fanfare — including a show by pop icon Bruno Mars — on Thursday, Aug. 15.The cutting-edge facility, which boasts five ba...
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Southern California fans share excitement as U.S. women’s soccer clinches gold

Anticipation. Covered eyes. Murmurs of frustration.Those were the feelings of hundreds of U.S. Women’s Soccer supporters at two Long Beach sports bars in the early morning on Saturday, Aug. 10 as they watched — with bated breath — as the USWNT played out a shaky first half against the Brazilian Women’s National Team in pursuit of Olympic gold at Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris.The gold-medal match, an especially tense one for both national teams who had much to prove on the international stage...
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Elections 2024: Long Beach City College sends $990 million bond measure to November ballot

Long Beach voters, as well as those in some adjacent cities, will have another ballot measure to decide on this fall.The Board of Trustees who oversee Long Beach City College unanimously voted this week to place a $990 million bond proposal on the Nov. 5 ballot. That bond, if approved, would fund various capital improvement projects on both of the college’s campusesThe bond measure, which doesn’t yet have an official name, will require approval from at least 55% of voters to pass.If the bond is...
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Election 2024: Long Beach voters to decide on 3 local ballot measures in November

Long Beach voters will decide whether three local ballot measures should pass in November.The City Council this week OK’d placing three separate ballot measures — two amendments to the City Charter and one local tax measure — on the Nov. 5 general election ballot.All thre measures need a simple majority to pass.The first, an amendment to the City Charter, aims to address Long Beach’s hiring problem, which has worsened significantly in recent years because of the pandemic, the nation’s so-called...
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The Long Beach Recovery Act kept the city afloat during COVID — but things are changing

Long Beach has faced its fair share of fiscal challenges over the years — particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.But the city is facing a slew of new challenges during this year’s budget cycle, and well into the fiscal future, as some of its key funding sources begin to shift.City leaders unveiled Long Beach’s proposed budget for the 2025 fiscal year last week, a $3.6 billion beast with new investments in housing, homelessness, public safety, 2028 Summer Olympics planning, education and more....
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Aquarium of the Pacific working to rehab, release sick sea turtle back to wild

Staff at the Aquarium of the Pacific are rehabilitating a 50-pound loggerhead sea turtle that was recently rescued — with hopes of eventually returning it to the wild.The turtle, estimated to be anywhere from 10 to 15 years old, was found near Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County with various ailments.It was transferred to the Aquarium of the Pacific, according to a recent news release, with authorization from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries office because the Lo...
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What next for homeless? Long Beach, South Bay officials assess Newsom’s unexpected encampment order

Local officials along Los Angeles County’s Coast striving to ease the plight of the homeless are working to assess last week’s unexpected edict from the governor’s office urging that communities clear their streets of “problematic encampments.”The executive order issued by Gov. Gavin Newsom — imploring cities across the massive state to take more action to resolve homeless encampments within their borders — has been met with some criticism from local government leaders and advocates, who cited c...
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Some Southern California hospitals mildly impacted by global IT outage

Health care providers across the Southern California were working to remedy the impacts of a cybersecurity firm’s faulty software update, which caused technological chaos across the globe on Friday, July 19, including at airports, government offices, businesses — and hospitals.The software update, issued by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, affected customers running Microsoft Windows, leading the Federal Aviation Administration to temporarily ground flights across the country on Friday, along wit...
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What does SpaceX’s move to Texas really mean for the South Bay?

The news that SpaceX, the massive aerospace company with an equally vast headquarters in Hawthorne, is apparently departing the South Bay for a new kind of south, caused an immediate stir among other local aerospace startups looking to hire — but also left locals with more questions than answers about how the move will impact the local economy.Mercurial billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced the company’s move from Hawthorne to Texas on Tuesday, July 16, in a post on X, formerly Twit...
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SpaceX to move from Hawthorne to Texas, Elon Musk announces

SpaceX, the massive aerospace company known for its innovative rockets and space capsules — with billions of dollars worth of contracts with the federal government — will move its headquarters from Hawthorne to Texas, founder Elon Musk announced on the social media platform X on Tuesday, July 16.While the precise impact wasn’t immediately known, the relocation could prove a blow to the South Bay and regional economy, though at least one economist cast doubt on that.Related: From modest beginning...
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Election 2024: Nomination period for candidates to get on the Nov. 5 ballot is open

The nomination period for those wishing to run for local offices across Los Angeles County during the Nov. 5 general election is now open.The November election will feature scores of political offices — local, state and federal — up for grabs throughout Los Angeles County, from Alhambra to Bellflower, from Santa Clarita to Manhattan Beach.But for some races, the candidates are already known. That’s because they were on the March 5 primary ballot and Nov. 5 will be a runoff. Among the races that...
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Long Beach Utilities to host public hearing over proposed rate increases this August

The Long Beach Utilities Department has approved three different rate increases as part of its fiscal year 2025 budget — though the changes will be subject to a public hearing and City Council approval before becoming official.The Utilities Commission approved its $378 million budget — which is comprises a $180 million water fund, a $165 million Gas fund and a $33 million sewer fund — for the upcoming fiscal year last month.That proposed budget, which will still need to be OK’d by the City Counc...
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Long Beach opens pet food pantry for homeless people with singer John Legend, Project Street Vet

The Multi-Service Center, Long Beach’s hub for homeless services, now has a new offering for unhoused people — thanks to a collaboration with musician John Legend and a local nonprofit.Anyone visiting the MSC will now have access to free food for their furry friends with the opening of the new pet food pantry on Friday, July 12.The pet food pantry, according to a Friday news release, was sponsored by nonprofit Project Street Vet, which provides free vet care for unhoused people’s pets, and Kisme...
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