Long Beach CA

LAPD called the 26-year-old the "Mountain Bike Bandit" after he broke into more than 30 restaurants in the San Fernando Valley.

Mauricio Umansky says California and Los Angeles need fixing when it comes to crime ... and he says anyone who tries to break in to his home to rob him needs to be prepared to meet their maker!!!

The Los Angeles City Council has voted to lower rent caps on 650,000 rent-stabilized apartments, approving a new formula that keeps annual rent increases at 4 percent for units covered by the city’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance. The decision follows a committee’s earlier backing of a stricter 3 percent cap and...

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A 43-year-old community organizer with little management experience challenges the incumbent establishment Democratic mayor of a deep blue city. If you think this story is about socialist Katie Wilson defeating Mayor Bruce Harrell in Seattle last week, you are wrong. Los...

Liberal and left-leaning labor groups in Los Angeles are advancing a new effort to set a $30-an-hour minimum wage by 2030, following recent local wage hikes and energized by favorable polling and electoral results according to the Los Angeles Times. The coalition wants the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to consider...

Subscribe to LA Public Press to get stories like this in your inbox every week. A network of volunteers are raising funds and navigating airline rules to send El Chapo to his owner in Mexico.

Loved ones are searching for a Southern California girl who has been missing for days. Amathyste Garcia, 14, was reported missing on Nov. 17, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Garcia, who is considered at-risk, was last seen in the city of Bellflower around 2:15 p.m. She is described as a...

SACRAMENTO — It’s been more than a year since Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Phone-Free School Act requiring every school district in California to develop its own policy limiting smartphone use on campuses by July 1, 2026. According to officials from the California Department of Education and the nonprofit Common...

City Council members say the burnouts, speed shows and illegal races are a scourge on neighborhoods. They want those advertising them to face $1,000 fines and possible jail time. The post Long Beach will penalize people for promoting street races, car sideshows appeared first on Long Beach Post .

A Southern California man was convicted of molesting two young girls and attempting to molest a third child at a motel. Jason Valentine Esparza, 60, had groomed women to babysit children as young as 4 years old and would have them bring the children to hotels so that he could molest them, according to the […]