Hermosa Beach News

Sending chocolates to your sweetheart remains common practice on Valentine's Day , and many chocolate and cocoa manufacturing establishments where those candies come from are here in California.

The Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach has been a part of the community since the 1940s, during a time when racial segregation was a part of the South Bay as well as much of the country.

Hermosa Beach might be known as one of the top places in the country for young, wealthy singles to hang out, according to CNNMoney .

Stephen Domingue, who ran the Ragin' Cajun restaurant in Hermosa Beach for 18 years, now operates a food truck, wheeling out to different Southern California locations daily.

Luxury pads in Hermosa Beach and Palos Verdes topped a list of others in Los Angeles communities that showed the most home price gains in 2011, according to a Los Angeles Times report .

Editor's Note: A version of this article originally published on sister site Lemon Grove Patch .

While Hermosa Beach features a number of venues where either singles can flirt or a couple can enjoy date night, deciding which drinks to order during the occasion can get complicated.

The three had left a store in Manhattan Beach when Hermosa detectives recognized their Jaguar as a vehicle associated with a makeup theft two days before from CVS Pharmacy on Pier Avenue in Hermosa, police said.

The second of 10 planned outdoor murals in Hermosa Beach will be formally unveiled 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb.

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You couldn't have asked for better weather for the 34th Annual Super Bowl Sunday 10K/5K Run/Walk , a major fundraiser for the Redondo Beach Chamber of Commerce .

Hermosa Beach police arrested three suspects in connection with a crime spree targeting clothing stores and pharmacies in the South Bay area, the department announced Monday.

Hermosa Beach is getting an early start on parade preparations for this year's St.

Environmental group Heal the Bay has given Hermosa Beach waters A and A-plus grades for cleanliness in its annual Beach Report Card , but when wet, ocean waves near the Herondo Street storm drain were given an F. In some of the first water quality tests of the year, the grades were updated last week Within the previous year, Hermosa Beach has ... (more)

On Jan. 26, we had a power outage for about 1 1/2 hours, from about 5:30 to 6 p.m. It affected our whole neighborhood.

Tonight, after returning home after a very long week, I decided to unwind and relax by reading about morbidity, mortality and risk associated with air pollution, not the serious form of air pollution represented by climate change inducing gases, but the less serious kind that only kills two million people per year, chiefly - but not limited - to ... (more)

The Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce this year celebrates its 100th anniversary, executive director Maureen Hunt announced in a letter onA Patch in January.

This right here is the handy work of Venice-based design firm Bishop Pass headed by Anthony Agriam who worked on Gjelina's aesthetic.

Welcome to our new weekly photo journal: Landmark Hermosa. Do you know what sits behind this door? Every Friday morning, we will post a photo of an architectural element in our beach town.

After chugging about three beer-pitchers worth of high-alkaline, ionized water at the Kangen Hydration Center,A a tired reporter felt an alert energy return, and experienced a tingling that seemed to come from the perhaps under-hydrated brain itself.