Escapes. Travel. Adventure.
Galapagos, Patagonia and Amazon cruises are life-changing experiences in the Southern Hemisphere.
Sept. 18, 2024
Letters to the Editor
A reader’s prescription for MacArthur Park: ‘Fix the damn lighting. Get people into drug rehab if they want it. Get them into housing. Do something. Do anything.’
California
Two more cases of the mosquito-borne dengue virus are confirmed in Baldwin Park, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
Business
One of Malibu’s two mobile home parks sells for nearly $200 million to one of the nation’s largest owners of manufactured housing communities.
Sept. 19, 2024
High School Sports
South East High School junior varsity football player Christian Garcia was injured during a game on Aug. 23 game and died on Sept. 3.
It is not clear why the off-duty police officer shot the man involved in a road rage argument. News reports say the wounded man may have had a fake gun.
Sept. 17, 2024
MacArthur Park is under siege from gangs and addicts. Is it too much to ask the city to fix the broken streetlights that line the borders of the public space?
Sept. 14, 2024
Lifestyle
In ‘The Morrison Game Factory,’ Lauren Bello created an affecting, story-driven tabletop game about an abandoned board game factory — a tale of love and loss.
Long Beach is rolling out a pilot program that will provide as many as 10 homeowners low- to zero-interest loans of up to $250,000 to build ADUs on their property. Those units would then be rented out to lower-income individuals or families.
Housing & Homelessness
Step Up On Second Street helped inspire California’s Project Homekey to convert hotels into housing; now it denies responsibility for missing money and failed projects.