The Audubon Society wants you. From 5-7 p.m. Saturday, the birding organization is looking for “citizen scientists” to head out to a spot along the coast to count Califo ia brown pelicans. The survey is designed to determine how well the species is doing since it was removed from the endangered spec...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. >> Go ahead and pity Kentucky Derby favorite Nyquist. He has the unenviable task of following in the hoof prints of Triple Crown champion American Pharoah, and so far isn’t getting the respect expected for the only undefeated horse in the race. Nyquist heads into the Run for the Rose...

Huntington Beach professional surfer Kanoa Igarashi scored a surfer’s version of the golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Except, in this case, Willy Wonka is 11-time world surf champion Kelly Slater. And the chocolate came in the form of tasty, long, barreling, perfect waves. Man-made ...

Lil One hopped on the bed the other night and said, “owies.” I’m not sure how exactly to spell the word, but I know what it means. I tu ed the TV to professional wrestling. Owies, she calls it. And so another generation is hooked on the squared circle. A 2-year-old girl and her dad, sitting on the b...

Los Angeles punk rock icons X played to a packed house Thursday night during a secret show at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach. The four-piece’s signature sound — guitarist Billy Zoom’s rockabilly-inspired riffs, drummer D.J. Bonebrake’s percussive drum attack and vocalists Exene Cervenka and John Doe’s son...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. >> Cathryn Sophia took charge entering the stretch and rolled to victory Friday in the 142nd Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs. After ru ing third last month in the Ashland at Keeneland, she got a good start along with favorite Rachel’s Valentina in the $1 million showcase for 3-year-...

Mou ers filled row after row of seats inside the chapel at Forst Lawn Memorial Park in Long Beach as hundreds gathered to honor Sean Harvell, who drowned last week off Alamitos Beach. Harvell, 33, was one of the nation’s most highly decorated veterans of the War on Terror, but his military service w...

Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that displaced seven people and left dogs dead in North Alamitos Beach Friday afte oon. Firefighters were called to the fire in the 1600 block of E. 7th Street at 2:53 p.m., said Brian Fisk, a Long Beach Fire Department spokesman. They arrived at the...

LA is going purple Friday night to remember Prince. A musical tribute for the superstar performer, who died April 21, is kicking off at 5 p.m., featuring a roster of popular R&B singers who will rock into the night. Among them, Prince collaborators The Time will perform, along with Faith Evans, Ke y...

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Below are the streets with the highest volume of traffic in Long Beach, according to statistics provided by the Public Works Department. Vehicles on the road per day: 47,000 — Studebaker Road north of Second Street 45,600 — 2nd Street west of Studebaker Road 44,300 — Lakewood Boulevard north of Spri...

LOS ANGELES — Democratic presidential candidate Be ie Sanders on Friday threatened a floor fight over rules and platform planks at the party’s summer convention on Friday, wa ing the Democratic National Committee not to stack the convention’s standing committees with supporters of Hillary Clinton. T...

Steve Baik, head boys basketball coach at Chino Hills high school, the top ranked team in the country, resigned abruptly Friday. High school basketball fans, students and commentators were shocked at the news and many wondered why yet another high profile coach is leaving Chino Hills. Steve Baik res...

After leading the Chino Hills boys basketball team to a 35-0 record and No. 1 national ranking, head coach Steve Baik has resigned. This was Baik’s ninth year with the program, the last six as head coach. The showing by the Huskies this season netted him Naismith National Coach of the Year honors as...

SEAL BEACH >> As a younger man, Paul Dunlap dreamed of being another Bill Graham, the late rock promoter of such groups as the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. On a weekday mo ing standing in front of the long-closed Bay Theatre in Seal Beach, Dunlap can almost see that vision coming true. The ...

DOWNEY >> A resolution to designate a stretch of the 5 Freeway in Downey in memory of slain Downey Police Department Officer Ricardo Galvez was unanimously approved by the state Senate this week. Senate Concurrent Resolution 111 would designate the portion of Interstate 5 between the San Gabriel Riv...

WASHINGTON — U.S. employers pulled back on hiring in April, adding 160,000 jobs, the fewest in seven months, after a streak of robust monthly gains. The unemployment rate remained at a low 5 percent, roughly where it has been since fall. Last month’s hiring gain marked a drop from the average increa...

CORONA >> A standoff between an attempted murder suspect and authorities on the 91 freeway near Corona prompted closures in both directions Thursday night, backing up traffic for miles over several hours. The stalemate came after a chase through Los Angeles and Orange counties where the suspect in a...

WASHINGTON — A fractured Republican party showed few signs of mending itself Friday, after Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus declared his support for Donald Trump and Trump bashed House Speaker Paul Ryan for not falling in line. “He talks about unity but what is this about unity?...

SOUTH GATE — A man was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound today at a South Gate residence where authorities had gone on a report of shots fired. The incident began about 3 a.m. when some shots were heard that apparently were coming from a residence on Santa Ana Street near Califo...