A lawsuit against the City of Long Beach over its approval of a Home Depot and retail complex on the edge of the Los Cerritos Wetlands is being heard today in Norwalk Superior Court.
The suit was filed jointly by the University Park Estates Homeowners Association and the Los Cerritos Wetlands Land Trust. It charges that the [...]

The state agency charged with protecting California’s beaches is ready to savage Long Beach’s last wetlands for a much-needed Home Depot. Don’t look to city officials for help.

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
The fate of Long Beach’s last expanse of salvageable wetlands will be at stake when the California Coastal Commission meets next week, and the bad [...]

Long Beach officials are aware many Peninsula residents have built out onto the public beach. They just don’t do anything about it.

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
The Alamitos Peninsula was lifted from ancient wetlands through the most exceptional kind of public-private partnership: the idle play of Mother Nature combined with some impressively focused works of human engineering [...]