Redondo Beach News

Omar Raiss reads a story with his two children Ali, 15 months, and Amina, 6, in their Redondo Beach home.

I had just dropped my family at LAX for a trip back east. I had brought along George the Labradoodle because my daughter wanted to ride to the airport with him and say goodbye.

A Redondo Beach surfer shot at by Torrance police officers who mistakenly believed he was fugitive cop Christopher Dorner is poised to file a lawsuit next week alleging the incident destroyed his life and he can no longer work and can barely talk or walk.

As you are planning different ways to see all the great sites in California, why not consider the most luxurious method of site-seeing possible? No, it's not the limousine, it's the helicopter.

The Easy Reader this week turned its investigative team loose on the one of the most incomprehensible, sprawling, engrossing issues facing the SouthBay - the current state of the local happy hour.

Summer is about to burst in the South Bay with the second summer concert series kicking off in El Segundo this weekend .

Changes are brewing for the Redondo Beach Library, a two-building institution whose management structure hangs in the balance as the City Council considers the 2013-2014 budget.

Advanced EHF is the next generation of protected military satellite communications satellites and provides vastly improved global, survivable, highly secure, protected communications for strategic command and tactical military personnel operating on ground, sea and air platforms.

When I first moved to Redondo Beach, I noticed this happening regularly at the southbound 405 Freeway's Inglewood Avenue off-ramp.

Seaside Lagoon is now open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. through September 2. Developer CenterCal is holding a final public workshop to hear residents' input on the waterfront revitalization project.

The forum is set from 6-8 p.m. at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center at Aviation and Manhattan Beach boulevards.

The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office continues to search for 51-year-old Redondo Beach resident Erik Lamberg, who has been missing for 13 days and is thought to have last been near his van stuck in the mud on a rural road near Fort Bragg.

Unusual Hottie won the $90,370 Redondo Beach Stakes by 1 1/4 lengths at Betfair Hollywood Park on Sunday, giving jockey Joe Talamo his leading seventh stakes victory at the spring-summer meet.

The Friends of Redondo Beach Arts is proud to present Art on the Wall on Sunday, June 9 at SEA Lab in Redondo Beach.

A free workshop Friday in Redondo Beach will provide information on protections against fraud related to home repair, insurance, finances, identity theft and more.

The Hermosa Beach Art Walk celebrates its tenth anniversary Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the lawn of the Hermosa Beach Community Center, Pier Ave. at Pacific Coast Hwy in Hermosa Beach.

The 9 Annual Redondo Beach Triathlon , sponsored by California Health Plans, will be held on Sunday, June 9 and features two separate events: a sprint and mini-sprint.

The AES Power Plant in Redondo Beach is surging with energy. "CA-101," an all-media art show that filled up hallways and rooms at the Palos Verdes Inn, is back for an encore performance, this time in a venue that has already proved itself to be something of a secular cathedral for art enthusiasts.

The featured local artist at this weekend's Hermosa Beach Art Walk is a photographer who specializes in oil-tinted, black-and-whites that take a modern twist on the early days of the art form.

A course that gives high school students a taste of what a career in aeronautics engineering looks like recently had its final exam--and participants passed with "flying colors."