Longtime restaurateur John Morris has been locked in a high-profile battle with the powerful California Coastal Commission. Why has he decided to pick this fight?

A diversity of business sectors drive the Long Beach economy, some with roots dating back to the city’s origins, and others that have blossomed more recently. The city’s economic strength and ...

The annual Building a Better Long Beach event, hosted as a partnership between the Business Journal and the city of Long Beach, returned in person this week at the Beverly O’Neill Theater. Mayor ...

The reimagining of the Los Angeles Waterfront has been in the works since the turn of the century. With construction on the redevelopment well underway, the Port of Los Angeles last week released the ...

Jane Close Conoley has already traded the 5,200 square foot Miller House in Park Estates — the traditional home for Cal State Long Beach’s top administrator — for a 1,300 square foot space in a shared ...

A Hard Rock Hotel is coming to Downtown Long Beach with an opening date set for the second half of 2027, city and business leaders officially announced Monday. The incoming hotel was previously ...

When Kevin Noertker bought a home in the Los Altos neighborhood in January, he and his wife took a gamble — not just on the nearby preschool but on the chance that Long Beach could be the city that ...

Long Beach is now the home of one more aerospace startup. Odys Aviation, which is striving to cut regional air travel times in half and drastically reduce carbon emissions with its new vertical ...

The port moved 9,384,368 20-foot equivalent units—the standard measure of a shipping container, a 15.7% increase over the previous record set in 2020.

Aviation and aerospace roots run deep in Long Beach—about 80 years to be exact. The sector has ebbed and flowed through the decades but has remained a constant force in the city. In the past, it was ...

One constant throughout Long Beach’s aerospace history has been the expertise coming out of Cal State Long Beach.

Ongoing attempts to negotiate a new contract for hotel workers across Southern California have led to protests throughout the region, some of which have escalated into acts of violence—including at ...