Signal Tribune Newspaper

CJ Dablo
Staff Writer
Signal Hill will have to find a way to continue feeding its poorer senior citizens with a little less help from the Feds. At the Feb. 19 City Council meeting, Community Services Director Pilar Alcivar-McCoy reported to the Council that federal grant money available for its senior brown-bag program has been reduced to $8,756, [...]

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Sean Belk
Staff Writer
Even though a judge has ruled twice in a lawsuit brought by Signal Hill and two other cities that the Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD) illegally imposed fees by not complying with state law, how much money, if any, the water agency will be forced to pay back to the cities [...]

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Sean Belk
Staff Writer

Bixby Knolls, the only neighborhood in Long Beach with nine designated signs on the 405 Freeway, is now entering a new chapter.
Although the State shut down the redevelopment that helped to turn the corridor along Long Beach Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue into a burgeoning attraction in the last few years through paying for [...]

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Eighty years ago on March 10, 1933, Long Beach was hit at 5:54pm by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake, causing an estimated $50 million in damages and 120 deaths. Following the quake, many residents had to live in tents in local parks, and they ate food provided by the National Guard. More than 90 percent of Long [...]

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