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1 week ago | 
sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz
Come Sunday, many families will be gathering to enjoy a meal and each other’s company for Easter. For families with children hoping to get another day of celebrating, or needing help putting together an egg hunt for their kids, these Saturday events in Long Beach and Signal Hill offer free egg hunts, Easter Bunny photo opps, games and more. Egg Hunt in the Heights: 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Kids are invited to hunt for more than 4,000 hidden eggs around the Red Car Greenbelt during this egg hunt.
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3 weeks ago | 
sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz
The Signal Hill City Council approved an economic analysis for their Opportunity Study Areas (OSA) on March 25. This document outlines the potential economic and residential future of the city. The analysis will inform city officials on how to redevelop Signal Hill to ensure economic growth, job creation and a diverse tax base.
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4 weeks ago | 
sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz
When DJ L.C. got a job at VIP Records in 1988, he was just an 18-year-old looking to make money after the military. By taking that job sorting records, L.C. would become an instrumental figure in Long Beach culture and the birth of G-funk rap, cemented at the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
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1 month ago | 
sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz
Residents of all ages from the Washington neighborhood organized a show of solidarity at Tuesday night’s Long Beach City Council meeting to ask for a community center in the area. The Washington community has been advocating for a center to serve its youth and seniors for over a decade, and residents say progress has been slow. Over 40 neighbors, ranging from elementary school-aged students to seniors, asked the City to invest more funding to get the center to its next steps.
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1 month ago | 
sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) is holding a virtual meeting on Thursday, March 20 regarding toxic air in West Long Beach. The two companies, Three Rivers Trucking and San Pedro Forklift, have been using a fumigant called methyl bromide for the past 28 years. Methyl bromide is a colorless, odorless pesticide that has harmful effects on people when breathed in for extended periods of time. The chemical was found in harmful amounts in West Long Beach.
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1 month ago | 
sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz
For the next two years, Long Beach will attempt to rehouse those living in the city’s largest and longest running homeless encampment: the Los Angeles Riverbed. The City will use $11 million from California’s Encampment Resolution Fund (ERF) program and another $6.4 million from its own funding and various other grants. The $17.4 million will go towards obtaining a shelter for rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing and street outreach.
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1 month ago | 
sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz
The Long Beach City Council reviewed the final figures for the 2024 fiscal year budget, totalling $813.4 million once the dust had settled, with a $2.3 million surplus to carry over. Although the city council approved the 2024 budget in September 2023, those initial numbers do not account for revenue accrued throughout the year, carry-over from the previous year, emergency reserves and one-time uses.
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1 month ago | 
sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz
Long Beach firefighter Phillip Hanlen remembers a 911 call he responded to for a grandmother attending her granddaughter’s birthday party. When they arrived the grandmother had a dangerously fast pulse and was in need of a paramedic, but his ambulance didn’t have one on board, and all other rescue ambulances were busy. Hanlen and his team waited for 20 minutes while the grandmother’s family pleaded with them to do something. By the time a paramedic arrived, she had passed away.
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1 month ago | 
sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz
Cal State Long Beach is two years behind schedule on appointing a caretaker for the sacred Puvungna land it rests on, and local tribes are struggling to obtain answers on when it will make a decision. Friends of Puvungna and the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy (TTPC) were the lone applicants when the California State University (CSU) leadership attempted to find a group to steward the cultural site.
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1 month ago | 
sigtrib.com | Samantha Diaz |bySamantha Diaz
Long Beach has ended its agreement with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles (spcaLA) due to contract violations, City officials announced on Monday. Long Beach Animal Care Services (LBACS) and spcaLA entered a lease agreement in 1998 to lower animal euthanasia rates, and have been operating out of the same facility since then.
