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Long Beach is crafting a unified mass-evacuation plan for natural disasters — and you can help. With earthquakes, tsunamis and flooding as potential threats, the city has a complex web of disasters to prepare for. Officials have kicked off a new planning process with a public survey.
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5 days ago · It would generate millions for Long Beach by setting the city’s sales tax rate at 10.75%. Annie and David Pauli must endure an arduous recovery process after a hit-and-run driver left them lying in the street. They said an insult was added when police called their injuries “moderate, but non-life-threatening.”. Video released by police ...
Long Beach is crafting a unified mass-evacuation plan for natural ...
5 days ago · Sopheadevyn Chum loads his car with sandbags that he will take to his 80-year-old uncle whose house tends to get flooded. He was preparing as a tropical storm was about to hit Long Beach on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. Photo by Thomas R. Cordova. Concerned about the threats of damaging earthquakes, wide ...
17-year-old shot, wounded in riverbed, Long Beach police say
1 day ago · A 17-year-old boy told Long Beach police he was walking in the riverbed of the Los Angeles River when he was struck by gunfire Sunday. Police said they learned of the shooting around 5:49 p.m. when they were called to a local hospital where the teenager went after being wounded. “The victim stated he was walking in an unknown area of the Los ...
Long Beach election results • Long Beach Post News
Nov 5, 2024 · Updated as of 6 p.m. Nov. 6 PST. Overall, Long Beach and LA County voters were in favor of local tax measures including Measure A and Measure LB. And there was strong support for Prop. 36 and a new DA. Read our analysis of what Prop. 36 will mean for Long Beach here.. Prop. 33 — the rent control question — and Prop. 32 — which would raise the minimum wage — are trending toward rejection.
Repairs after ‘random’ water main break cost Long ... - Long Beach …
4 days ago · He added that officials are still looking into the root cause ahead of a scheduled Dec. 3 presentation before the Long Beach City Council. This comes a month after the ruptured water pipe in California Heights sent a million gallons of water gushing into the neighborhood and left residents in three zip codes on a boil-water notice because of the risk of contamination caused by a drop in water ...
Best of Long Beach 2019 • Long Beach Post
The Long Beach Post is pleased to present the winners of the 2019 Best of Long Beach – chosen entirely by our readers. We received an overwhelming response to this year’s poll: close to 168,000 votes were tallied. We present to you the top vote-getters in 101 different categories: 101 people, places, and things to do that are the best of ...
Measure LB: Ending a tax exemption for two local power plants
Oct 16, 2024 · Measure LB would help shore up the city budget by ending a tax exemption for two power plants on the far eastern side of Long Beach. by Lizbeth Cortes-Gutierrez and Yasmine Poot Oct 16, 2024. Snow-capped mountains can be seen behind the Alamitos Energy Center power plant, also known as AES Alamitos, in Long Beach on Friday, December 31, 2021.
One in four people now testing positive for COVID in Long Beach
Photo by Thomas R. Cordova. Long Beach and Los Angeles County again set records for new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, with one in four people in Long Beach now testing positive for the virus. The city reported 1,720 new cases, with a positivity rate of about 24.6%—up from 3% just two weeks ago. The city has reported 6,274 cases this week alone ...
A look at 7 upcoming projects that could change the face of Long …
Jan 1, 2024 · The new pool project is expected to cost around $74.2 million with an additional $3.7 million needed to potentially add seats and shade structures in the future. The domed version would have cost about $145 million, and the 2021 version of the project was expected to cost $119 million.