Closing East Elementary School has been cast by the  Long Beach school district as a way to save an estimated $3 million in ...

Several miles of coastline spanning from Malibu to Santa Monica have been closed indefinitely due to the risk of toxic ...

A nearly $400 million proposed cut to California State University is beginning to have a ripple effect on campuses, including some in Southern California. An email sent Friday by California State ...

Mariam Mkhitaryan, a 2022 Ames High School graduate, moved to Los Angeles to attend California State University Long Beach as a film major with plans to pursue a career in directing. When she was back ...

A federal judge Tuesday halted a Trump administration plan to pause nearly all domestic federal funding. The pause was ...

After a ceasefire deal paused 15 months of war in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians returned to the rubble of their ...

Clark Builders is constructing the home in Florence Gardens, which has an estimated value of $450,000. Work on the Long Beach ...

AND WE KNOW RUNNING JUST ONE MARATHON IS A BIG TEST OF ENDURANCE AND DETERMINATION. AND NOW IMAGINE RUNNING SEVEN MARATHONS ...

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The races to fill the U.S. House seats of former Reps. Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz began Tuesday with primaries in reliably ...

A Wellington man whose disabilities require near-constant supervision faces up to 15 years in prison for reportedly ...

Lawyers representing children, and an octogenarian who has spent the Florida revival of his law career as a Legal Aid ...