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"This milestone truly showcases our commitment to inclusion, athletic excellence and community spirit," Mayor Rex Richardson said Tuesday.

LONG BEACH, CA — Long Beach has been selected to host seven sporting events for the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympic Games, city officials said in a statement Tuesday.

Long Beach's waterfront will serve as the backdrop for para climbing, para swimming, shooting para sport, sitting volleyball, blind football (soccer), para rowing and para canoe-sprint, according to city officials.

“We are incredibly proud and honored that Long Beach will host seven Paralympic sporting events for the 2028 Los Angeles Paralympic Games,” Mayor Rex Richardson said in a statement Tuesday. “This milestone truly showcases our commitment to inclusion, athletic excellence and community spirit."

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The 2028 games mark the debut of para climbing, which, along with para swimming, will take place in the convention center lot, Long Beach city officials said. Shooting para sport will take place at a temporary indoor range, sitting volleyball at the Long Beach Arena, blind football (soccer) at Alamitos Beach, and para rowing and para canoe-spring at Marine Stadium, city officials said.

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Earlier this year, Long Beach was selected to host 11 Olympic games in 20028, including beach volleyball, handball, water polo, sailing and target shooting.

City officials said Tuesday that Long Beach's involvement in the Olympic and Paralympic games will raise its international profile as a "world-renowned destination for business, tourism and special events."

"It will also generate significant economic activity for the city and enhance the livability of Long Beach residents and visitors for generations to come," city officials said in a statement.

The Olympic Games are set to take place from July 14 to 30, while the Paralympic Games will be hosted from Aug. 15 to 27.

In summary

California jobs and revenue on and off the ports are feeling the effects of Trump’s tariffs.

California’s port traffic is beginning to look worse now, under the effects of President Donald Trump’s fickle tariff policy, than it did at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The vessel calls, or cancellations, that we’re seeing today (are) starting to exceed the number that we saw in COVID-19,” Mario Cordero, chief executive of the Port of Long Beach, said in an interview with CalMatters in early May.

At Port of Los Angeles, Executive Director Gene Seroka said during a media briefing last week that the port expected 80 ships to arrive in May, but 17 have been canceled. By comparison, last year through May there were a total of 12 cancellations. There are 10 cancellations for June already, he added.

Farther north, the Port of Oakland saw a 15% month-over-month drop in container activity in April, spokesperson Matt Davis said. It was the first significant decline this year, as tariffs went into effect.

The challenges presented by Trump’s tariffs are “not like COVID,” said Martha Miller, executive director of the California Association of Port Authorities, at a business roundtable last week. The unpredictability of Trump’s edicts means there won’t be a surge of cargo, she said; many businesses are waiting to act, including to order goods for import.

Data for the state’s three biggest ports confirm that jobs are dwindling for longshore workers up and down the state. The numbers of gangs — teams of varied sizes that work to handle cargo — at each of the ports have declined in the past few weeks, and have dropped year over year. Besides the numbers of containers at the ports, gang numbers are another indicator of the amount of work available.

Gary Herrera is president of the International Longshore Workers Union Local 13, which represents port workers in both Long Beach and Los Angeles.

Part-time workers are not getting any hours right now, Herrera said during a media briefing with Long Beach officials. He told CalMatters that full-time workers — who get first dibs on jobs — may not be getting 40 hours a week, either. Herrera was also speaking on behalf of a couple of other locals; altogether they represent about 9,000 full-time and 6,000 part-time port workers.

As the tariff drama drags on, the impact will be felt by other workers along the supply chain, from truck drivers to the staff at warehouses to rail workers and those who work in retail. If and when people don’t have enough work or lose their jobs, their communities and local economies will suffer, port officials and workers say.

“We live and we work in our community,” Herrera said during a recent media briefing with Long Beach officials. “We spend in our community.”

Luisa Gratz is the president of International Longshore Workers Union Local 26, which represents most of the security on the docks in Los Angeles and Long Beach. The port security workers — who drive other longshore workers from parking lots to the ships, among other things — told CalMatters that her constituents are also struggling.

“When there’s no work for longshoremen, there’s very little work for us except gate monitoring,” she said. “It’s heartbreaking. It’s putting people out of work.”

Truckers are also feeling the squeeze from the tariffs.

Eric Tate is secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 848, which represents about 8,000 truck drivers in Southern California. He said truckers, especially part-timers who aren’t guaranteed any hours, are seeing less work, though he did say truckers saw a bit of a pickup in work after Trump temporarily reduced tariffs on China.

“We’re trying to gear up and quickly move stuff around,” he said in an interview with CalMatters. “We’re trying to save Christmas.”

He said the continued uncertainty means many truck drivers are barely working 40 hours a week. Some shipper drivers, who transport cargo off ships to ease congestion on ports, may be working one to two days a week, Tate said. “When there’s no ship, there’s no congestion,” he added.

But in the Bay Area, the Port of Oakland is seeing a possible pickup in activity in June — as of last week, the planned canceled ships for that month have been reduced from 12 to five, port spokesperson Davis said.

The decline in cargo traffic at the ports could change depending on how different industries and businesses respond to an agreement the Trump administration reached with China on May 12, which lowers the tax on imports from China from 145% to 30% for 90 days.

The volatility is a problem

Besides a decline in imports from places such as China, the ports are handling fewer exports from the state’s agricultural industry, thanks to retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods. Stephanie Magnien Rockwell, chief of staff at the Port of Los Angeles, said in mid-May that California farmers are taking a hit.

“One of our greatest exports are soybeans to China,” she said at a hearing held by State Treasurer Fiona Ma about tariffs. “(But) Brazil, in the month of March, exported more soybeans to China than they have in their entire history.”

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The U.S. trade war with China has an outsize effect on California ports: Chinese goods have accounted for 40% of the imports at the Port of Los Angeles, 63% at the Port of Long Beach and 45% at the Port of Oakland.

Despite the temporary deal with China, the lack of clarity is a problem — and tariffs remain high, officials, business owners and others say. Continued changes in the costs of goods make it hard for businesses to plan. And only certain size businesses may be able to afford to take a leap and order goods from overseas now.

“We can’t generalize here, because of those 125,000 importing companies (whose) goods come through the Port of Los Angeles,” Seroka said to CalMatters. “But safe to say, if there was a little bit of a shortage on stock, or if some felt that the 30% average tariff might go higher, sure, people jump back in.”

But the uncertainty persists, Seroka said. Case in point: On May 23, Trump complained about not being able to reach a deal with Europe on tariffs and threatened a 50% tariff on European goods — which he said over the weekend would be delayed to July 9. He also threatened a 25% tariff on iPhones unless Apple begins to make the devices in the United States.

A big deal

Long-term, the stakes are high and wide-ranging. Port of Long Beach CEO Cordero said a 10% decline in cargo could mean a 10% decline in jobs. “If you use a round figure of a million jobs stemming from the port operations, that’s a 100,000 job reduction,” he told CalMatters.

His port supports jobs worth tens of billions of dollars in income in the five surrounding counties, according to a report recently released by the port. The report estimates that in 2023, port activity contributed $84.4 billion in local, state and federal taxes. Those were taxes paid by individuals and businesses, said Kimberly Ritter-Martinez, the port’s manager of economics and funding, during the Long Beach media briefing.

“When workers and business owners earn income from working at the port or as one of our suppliers, they spend those dollars on groceries, entertainment, travel… and all of that activity supports the broader economy,” she said.

Long Beach has launched a new four-month pilot program that places several "smart" public restrooms throughout the city.

"Public restrooms are necessary infrastructure that serve everyone in our community," Mayor Rex Richardson said in a statement earlier this month. "By piloting a solution that has proven successful in communities throughout LA County, we aim to increase the number of welcoming public spaces in Long Beach parks."

The new restrooms can be found at DeForest Park, Harvey Milk Promenade Park, Belmont Pier and the Shoreline Marina, according to city officials. The locations were chosen based on where there has been a noticeable demand for more public restrooms, city officials said.

The restrooms are ADA-accessible, have running water, a baby changing station and free menstrual products, city officials said.

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They can be accessed through phone and have 21 sensors that provide real-time data on the restroom's cleanliness, usage statistics and whether it's being misused.

This, according to city officials, will create a sense of accountability while still maintaining the privacy of the user.

The program will operate through mid-August in partnership with Throne Labs, which currently has more than a dozen similar restrooms across Los Angeles County, city officials said.

"Access to clean bathrooms is essential for vibrant communities, and our mission is to create facilities that everyone wants to use," Jessica Heinzelman, COO and Co-founder of Throne Labs, said in a statement. "We're thrilled to be partnering with the City of Long Beach to demonstrate how access to delightful smart public restrooms can transform public spaces to be more welcoming to residents and visitors."

Funding for these four restrooms comes from the Technology and Innovation Fund, which is used to create technology and data-informed solutions that improve the lives of residents in the city, and the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department, city officials said.

Following the end of this test run, the city officials will review whether the restrooms should become a permanent fixture and explore funding options. City officials would also assess better ways to provide access to public restrooms for people who don't have access to a phone.

The schedule for the annual Moonlight On The Beach at Granada Beach has been released. Here's what to know.

LONG BEACH, CA — The ever-popular Moonlight On The Beach movie nights return to Long Beach starting in June, with six classic films showing on Tuesday nights.

Moonlight On The Beach attracts hundreds of people each year. While the event has experimented with showings in other parts of the city, such as parks, this year it will be held solely at Granada Beach. Here's the full schedule:

The Goonies — The classic story of friendship, mystery and adventure will kick off the Moonlight On The Beach event this year on June 17.

Dirty Dancing — This romantic drama featuring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray is set for June 24.

10 Things I Hate About You — The romantic comedy based on Shakespeares's "The Taming Of The Shrew" will show on July 8.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off — Twist and shout your way to Granada Beach on July 22 to see Ferris Bueller embark on his great adventure with his friends across Chicago.

Grease: The Sing-A-Long — Join the Pink Lady Sandys or the T-Birds in singing along to 1950s rock and roll tunes on Aug. 5.

Lilo & Stitch — The 2002 movie about family, healing and acceptance featuring the only and only experiment 626 will show on Aug. 12.

All movies begin at around sunset (8 to 8:30 p.m.). Anyone looking to attend can bring their own food, however, food trucks will be on site, along with kettle corn vendors.

It has taken more than a year for current and former residents of the City of Long Beach in California to learn that some of their personally identifiable and protected health information was compromised in a cyberattack. Notifications have been sent to multiple U.S. states confirming that the information of 470,060 individuals was exposed and potentially stolen in the attack. That figure includes 258,191 individuals whose protected health information was compromised. No ransomware group is known to have claimed responsibility for the attack.

The cyberattack was detected on or around November 14, 2023, and the forensic investigation confirmed on March 18, 2024, that sensitive data had been accessed or acquired by the threat actor. It then took a further 13 months before notification letters were mailed to the affected individuals. City officials confirmed that notification letters started to be mailed on April 14, 2025.

City officials explained that most of the affected systems were restored and brought back online within a matter of weeks after the attack was detected, and while confirmation of unauthorized access to data was confirmed in March 2024, in an October 7, 2024, update, the city explained that third party cybersecurity professionals were still trying to determine the nature and scope of the data stolen in the attack. The city explained in the notice that complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection services would be offered to individuals whose Social Security numbers were involved. “This process of identifying specific individuals’ sensitive information is incredibly detailed, time-intensive, can be lengthy, and has been ongoing to date,” explained city officials in the October 2024 notice. “Progress is being made, and the process may be close to completion in the upcoming months.”

In the latest notification, city officials explained that between the attack and April 14, 2025, there have been no indications that any of the impacted information has been misused for the purpose of committing identity theft or fraud, and said the notification letters were being issued as required by law and out of an abundance of caution. Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said, “This has proven to be an unprecedented event for our organization, and we continue to take this investigation and its findings seriously.” The individual notifications confirm that credit monitoring and identity theft protection services are being provided for 12 months to individuals whose Social Security numbers were compromised.

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