Long Beach CA

LONG BEACH, Calif. — A large banner reading “ICE Out of Long Beach” was briefly displayed this week on the top floor balcony of Long Beach City Hall, just outside the mayor’s office. The banner drew immediate attention from people in the area and on social...

You can spot Randy’s Donuts before you even smell the sugar. For more than seventy years, this Inglewood bakery has drawn crowds day and night, thanks to its iconic rooftop donut and its steady supply of fresh donuts made around the clock. Famous for appearances in films and television,...

A pandemic housing lifeline that pulled hundreds of Long Beach residents out of encampments and shelters and into apartments is now on a countdown clock. City officials and caseworkers say the federal money behind Long Beach's Emergency Housing Voucher program will likely run out by the start of August 2026, putting...

More than two years ago, when homeless outreach workers told Clark Inglish about a new type of housing voucher that could swiftly move her out of a tent on the Los Angeles River and into an apartment, her mouth “almost dropped to the floor.”. The help arrived just in...

Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriffs’ Department’s Palmdale Station are asking for the public’s help Saturday locating an at-risk teen who was reported missing in Palmdale. Daisy Lilian Velasquez was last seen on Friday at 2 p.m. on the 36900 block of Desert Willow Drive and...

The City of Torrance has announced a new public art installation coming soon to the DoubleTree by Hilton Torrance South Bay featuring internationally recognized muralist Robert Vargas. Known for his large-scale, iconic works across Los Angeles and abroad, including the Shohei Ohtani mural in Little Tokyo, Vargas will...

His name is Gumbo Lee Jones, but until recently, it was just Gumbo. Shelter staff gave him the name when he was brought to Long Beach Animal Care Services (LBACS) in August 2023. He had been abandoned in Coolidge Park in Long Beach and entered LBACS with severe skin issues, open sores on his back and a huge...

A person was critically injured overnight in a house fire in Long Beach, fire officials said. The Long Beach Fire Department was called to a home on the 4600 block of Goldfield Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, it said. There, a home was fully engulfed in smoke and fire conditions upon the crews’ arrival.

Power was restored after a major outage that affected most Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department phone lines, including calls to 911. Just after 6 p.m. Thursday night, LASD officials were notified of an outage affecting the Vesta System, a third-party public safety call-handling platform impacting 911 calls. By...

Los Angeles County health inspectors have shut down the Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Marina del Rey due to a “vermin infestation,” meaning rats or bugs were found inside the restaurant. The upscale eatery was ordered closed on Feb. 17 after inspectors noted two major violations, according to the county department of...