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On the acknowledgement that diesel trucks create far too many emissions, an intercontinental group is working on a plan to make one of North America’s major highways a little greener.
An international group of three countries and three U.S. states gathered at the Port of Long Beach recently to launch the
Abigail Rivera was already in bed Sunday after closing her pop-up restaurant when a phone call woke her with jarring news: The trailer she serves out of was on fire.
The flames were extinguished by the time she and her husband arrived, police and firefighters already on the scene. The fire suppression system hadn’t worked, she said, and she was met with the afterm...
Long Beach is offering up to $1,500 for local business owners and landlords to equip their storefronts with safety measures like cameras, floodlights, alarms and point-of-sale systems.
The grant program is accepting online applications now. You can apply
Long Beach’s top traffic engineer — in charge of making the city’s roads safer for drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians — has left the job after more than three years. He says he was forced out.
“This wasn’t my decision to leave,” former City Traffic Engineer Paul Van Dyk said in an interview.
He declined to elaborate on the circumstances of his exit. In a...
When Vahe Margaryan tried pho for the first time, it quite literally changed his life.
“I got goosebumps because it was so good,” Margaryan said. “It was so good that I was like, ‘Oh man, I need to find a better job to make money,’ because it was expensive.”
That fateful sip happened at the now-closed Number Nine restaurant on Fourth Street. Margaryan had...