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Pacific Community Media is behind the Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal. They are reimagining the way news is reported in Long Beach, which is the second-largest city in Los Angeles County. Their view is that Long Beach, like all communities, deserves a vital publication that truly serves its audience. This publication aims to hold local leaders accountable, is locally owned and managed, and is committed to investing in both the publication's growth and the community's development. It seeks to unite the city and inspire its residents to take action.

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Grocery workers threaten to strike if contract deal isn’t reached soon

1 week ago | lbpost.com | John Donegan

Grocery workers across Southern California are preparing to strike against Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons and Pavilions — the region’s first in decades — unless a final round of negotiations next week can yield better pay, improved staffing and other benefits. More than 45,000 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, who stock and serve about 500 stores in the region, voted on June 11 to authorize a strike.
Long Beach tests new rules to allow public drinking in downtown

1 week ago | lbpost.com | Jacob Sisneros

As the sun beats down and the weather heats up, a woman takes cover under her pink umbrella as a couple walks down the Promenade in Long Beach Monday, June 27, 2022. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova. Visitors and residents in Long Beach may soon be able to enjoy an alcoholic beverage outside at downtown events.
Gas, water and sewer rates set to increase to help cover $397 million Utilities Department budget

1 week ago | lbpost.com | John Donegan

The Long Beach Utilities headquarters at 1800 E. Wardlow Road on June 8, 2023. Photo by Jason Ruiz. Citing a rise in costs to deliver gas and water to the public, the Long Beach Board of Utilities Commissioners on Tuesday approved higher rates, as part of their $397.4 million budget for the fiscal year that begins in October. Under the plan, water and sewer rates will go up starting Oct. 1.
City Council OKs construction contract for grandstands at Queen Mary-adjacent amphitheater

1 week ago | lbpost.com | Jacob Sisneros

A rendering of a planned amphitheater at the Queen Mary released at the Long Beach State of the City on Jan. 14, 2025. Long Beach just approved the first step in its construction of the Long Beach Bowl, a temporary, outdoor amphitheater planned to open next year adjacent to the Queen Mary.
Spectrum says its lines were cut in a ‘criminal act of vandalism’ that caused large internet outage

1 week ago | lbpost.com | Jacob Sisneros

Several Spectrum lines cut and laid out as repairs continue to restore services throughout the Long Beach area in Signal Hill Thursday, June 19, 2025. Photo courtesy of Spectrum. An internet outage across large parts of Long Beach was caused by someone who intentionally cut fiber optic lines “in a criminal act of vandalism,” according to a spokesperson for Spectrum.
Long Beach City Council votes to mandate more staffing at self-checkout lanes

1 week ago | lbpost.com | John Donegan

Expect more clerks at self-checkout stations in Long Beach, after the City Council voted Tuesday to draft an ordinance requiring food and drug stores to staff up at their automated cashier counters. Titled “Safe Stores are Staffed Stores,” elected officials say the local ordinance will be a first in the nation: It will establish a 2:1 staffing ratio, where grocery stores and retail drug stores must staff at least one worker to supervise every two self-checkout stations.
Community college adjunct professors optimistic as two lawsuits over pay progress

1 week ago | lbpost.com | Thomas Peele

This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. A pair of recent court decisions may bode well for the state’s part-time community college professors, known as adjuncts, who have argued for years that they work unpaid hours to meet students’ needs. In Southern California, roughly 1,200 adjuncts who brought a class-action lawsuit against the Long Beach Community College District in 2022 are preparing for mediation to resolve claims of lost pay.
Bystanders rush to help victim shot in head outside Long Beach Wingstop, witnesses say

1 week ago | lbpost.com | Jacob Sisneros

Police investigate a shooting at a shopping center near the intersection of Long Beach Boulevard and 20th Street on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Photo by Jacob Sisneros Police are investigating a shooting outside a Long Beach Wingstop that left two people seriously wounded Tuesday afternoon.
Youth can get free summer meals in Long Beach while school is out; here’s where

1 week ago | lbpost.com | John Donegan

Free lunches being handed out to kids. Courtesy the city of Long Beach. Long Beach is once again offering free meals this summer to youngsters, as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Summer Food Service Program. Starting this week through Aug. 22, the city and school district will offer meals at parks, libraries and school buildings to children in need.
Long Beach’s inflatable water playgrounds are now open. Here are the rules for using them

1 week ago | lbpost.com | Jacob Sisneros

Crews continue to anchor down the new aquatic playground at Alamitos Beach in Long Beach Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova. Long Beach’s popular inflatable playgrounds are back on the water in time for summer.