GCRTA approved a roughly $2.5M deal to provide fare‑card passes to about 13,500 CMSD high‑school students for 2026–27, with the district prepaying most of the cost and RTA reconciling rides.

The Port of Long Beach signed a nonbinding memorandum with MARAD to study small modular reactors for ships and shoreside power. Bluecore is testing modules at Pier D.

Columbine Hills residents say repeated outages this summer have left them sweltering, discarding food and demanding clearer answers from Xcel.