It’s been about six months since Grace Adams became the first executive director for The Roundhouse Aquarium Teaching Center, at the end of the Manhattan Beach pier — and she’s already made quite the impact.

Daniel Genuth was making his usual walk to work down the Manhattan Beach Pier to the Roundhouse Aquarium on Wednesday at around 1:30 p.m.

Mira Costa High School's new athletic pavilion is set to open next school year, just in time for the school's 70th anniversary.

Ryan Beaupain couldn’t find a shady tree to rest under after playing a hot day of soccer at Begg Field, right next to Polliwog Park in Manhattan Beach.

Manhattan Beach is a step closer to totally banning tobacco and vaping sales in the small beach city.

A wind-driven power outage in El Segundo on Monday, Feb. 3 left traffic signals inoperable and some buildings without power.

Maurice Ngo had his stepfather, the only father figure in his life, for only five years.

Good Vibe and Chroma Haze played their second sets in summer 2019 for Manhattan Beach’s Concerts in the Park, and it may have been the last. 

Customers who promise not to drink and drive at Hennessey's Tavern in Manhattan Beach will soon get discounts on their bills. 

Manhattan Beach’s school board may have some tough choices to make in the coming months.

On a stretch of Sunset Beach where the overfull Huntington Harbour is higher than Pacific Coast Highway, a pump is ready to keep the road from flooding. In Long Beach, seawater has overtaken Bayshore Beach. The water laps against Balboa Island’s recently elevated seawall on Balboa Island and…

King Tides on Friday, Jan. 10 attracted about 30 wave-watchers to The Strand in Manhattan Beach that morning for the Urban Tides Beach Walk, the first in this city. 

A third Manhattan Beach neighborhood voted Tuesday to put its utility infrastructure underground. 

Several high schools in the South Bay and around Long Beach area appear to be among the best in the nation at teaching STEM — at least according to one ranking.

City Council makeover makes first woman-majority, City Hall reopened Fridays

How fortunate we are in Manhattan Beach! Every year, we have many ways in which to enjoy the season. There is the annual Pier Lighting and Downtown Holiday Open House, the north Manhattan Beach Holiday Stroll, the fantastic display of fireworks that light up the sky, Santa’s sleigh that roll…

An L.A. County storm water catch basin—known locally as the pond at Manhattan Beach's Polliwog Park—has spilled over to the rest of the park once again after overnight rain Sunday. 

A South Bay holiday staple, the 27th Annual Beach Cities Toy Drive gift wrapping party welcomed dozens of volunteers who spent their weekend helping wrap gifts that have been donated for the holiday season at the Hermosa Beach Community Center’s gymnasium Saturday, Dec. 21.

El Segundo restaurants will soon only be able to serve plastic food and drink-ware if customers ask for it.

A group of teenagers in a car reportedly pointed what turned out to be a toy assault rifle at a pedestrian in Hermosa Beach on Sunday, officials said, then shortly after hit a police SUV in Manhattan Beach while fleeing from authorities.

The annual holiday fireworks show in Manhattan Beach Sunday night, Dec. 8, received an added spectacle this year when a 45-foot power boat ran aground near the pier during the middle of the pyrotechnic display.

Christmas is better on the beach — and no town proves that more than Manhattan Beach.

Colors and lights dance to Christmas songs over the pier every second Sunday in December because of Pete Moffett. The former restaurant owner founded and has produced the annual Manhattan Beach Holiday Fireworks Show since 1989.

Wonder where the beach's entrepreneurs, restaurateurs, hoteliers and philanthropists live? See four distinctive, holiday-decorated South Bay homes this weekend during the Sandpipers 27th annual Holiday Homes Tour. 

With the pier lit up, the rest of Manhattan Beach has quickly gotten in the holiday spirit.

Manhattan Beach will soon get street signs with a whole new look.

Another neighborhood in Manhattan Beach, this one on the south end of the city a few blocks from the beach, will soon decide whether to have its utility poles and lines buried underground.

Manhattan Beach has officially rung in the holidays.

The room is quiet. Fifty or so young people sit on folding metal chairs, their bodies still, all eyes turned to the man on stage.

West Basin Municipal Water District took the next steps Monday night, Nov. 18, toward building a desalination facility in El Segundo, a project that has drawn fierce opposition from conservation groups — including some who staged a rally before the meeting.

Superintendent Dr. Mike Matthews will recommend the appointment of Dr. Suzanne Webb as Manhattan Beach Unified School District's new assistant superintendent of human resources at a board meeting on Nov. 20, it was announced today.

The sweet, smiling blue whale is back where she belongs.

Southern California will need to make room for another 1.3 million more housing units over the next 10 years, with the coastal cities of Los Angeles and Orange counties the preferred destination rather than inland communities, according to a draft plan approved this week by a regional govern…

Steve Crecy, who served two years in the Army during the Vietnam War, may have said it best  — “We know we did our jobs as soldiers right.”

The Manhattan Beach City Council this week threw cold water on a plan to look at turning its Fire Department over to Los Angeles County.

Selling electronic cigarettes and other vaping products is now illegal in Manhattan Beach.

Stacy Dukes : July 11, 1934 - September 19, 2019

Manhattan Beach resident Johnna Stone wants to save the old date palms on her quaint street near the ocean.

It’s just about a 3.5-mile walk from the Manhattan Beach Pier to the Hermosa Beach Pier and back again.

Manhattan Beach Boulevard came alive with superheroes, cartoon characters and — for gourds’ sake — plenty of pumpkins of all shapes, sizes and colors on Sunday afternoon the city’s 29th annual Pumpkin Race.

If you ask Southern California street artist Kidwiseman, the whole world is full of blank slates. Drab, white walls, waiting to be filled with life and color.

Surfer Alex Gray knows the harm addiction can cause.

Carter Daley was just about to turn eight years old when he awoke from a nap with a strange lump on his chest.

If one note rang clear during Thursday evening’s the Best of Manhattan Beach Awards it was Manhattan Beach’s love for Skechers.

Imagine playing volleyball but not being able to hear your teammates yell "Got it!" or "Spike!"

Ryan Beaupain couldn’t find a shady tree to rest under after playing a hot day of soccer at Begg Field, right next to Polliwog Park in Manhattan Beach.

Manhattan Beach is a step closer to totally banning tobacco and vaping sales in the small beach city.

A wind-driven power outage in El Segundo on Monday, Feb. 3 left traffic signals inoperable and some buildings without power.

Maurice Ngo had his stepfather, the only father figure in his life, for only five years.

Good Vibe and Chroma Haze played their second sets in summer 2019 for Manhattan Beach’s Concerts in the Park, and it may have been the last. 

Customers who promise not to drink and drive at Hennessey's Tavern in Manhattan Beach will soon get discounts on their bills. 

Manhattan Beach’s school board may have some tough choices to make in the coming months.

On a stretch of Sunset Beach where the overfull Huntington Harbour is higher than Pacific Coast Highway, a pump is ready to keep the road from flooding. In Long Beach, seawater has overtaken Bayshore Beach. The water laps against Balboa Island’s recently elevated seawall on Balboa Island and…

King Tides on Friday, Jan. 10 attracted about 30 wave-watchers to The Strand in Manhattan Beach that morning for the Urban Tides Beach Walk, the first in this city. 

A third Manhattan Beach neighborhood voted Tuesday to put its utility infrastructure underground. 

Several high schools in the South Bay and around Long Beach area appear to be among the best in the nation at teaching STEM — at least according to one ranking.

City Council makeover makes first woman-majority, City Hall reopened Fridays

How fortunate we are in Manhattan Beach! Every year, we have many ways in which to enjoy the season. There is the annual Pier Lighting and Downtown Holiday Open House, the north Manhattan Beach Holiday Stroll, the fantastic display of fireworks that light up the sky, Santa’s sleigh that roll…

An L.A. County storm water catch basin—known locally as the pond at Manhattan Beach's Polliwog Park—has spilled over to the rest of the park once again after overnight rain Sunday. 

A South Bay holiday staple, the 27th Annual Beach Cities Toy Drive gift wrapping party welcomed dozens of volunteers who spent their weekend helping wrap gifts that have been donated for the holiday season at the Hermosa Beach Community Center’s gymnasium Saturday, Dec. 21.

El Segundo restaurants will soon only be able to serve plastic food and drink-ware if customers ask for it.

A group of teenagers in a car reportedly pointed what turned out to be a toy assault rifle at a pedestrian in Hermosa Beach on Sunday, officials said, then shortly after hit a police SUV in Manhattan Beach while fleeing from authorities.

The annual holiday fireworks show in Manhattan Beach Sunday night, Dec. 8, received an added spectacle this year when a 45-foot power boat ran aground near the pier during the middle of the pyrotechnic display.

Christmas is better on the beach — and no town proves that more than Manhattan Beach.

Colors and lights dance to Christmas songs over the pier every second Sunday in December because of Pete Moffett. The former restaurant owner founded and has produced the annual Manhattan Beach Holiday Fireworks Show since 1989.

Wonder where the beach's entrepreneurs, restaurateurs, hoteliers and philanthropists live? See four distinctive, holiday-decorated South Bay homes this weekend during the Sandpipers 27th annual Holiday Homes Tour. 

With the pier lit up, the rest of Manhattan Beach has quickly gotten in the holiday spirit.

Manhattan Beach will soon get street signs with a whole new look.

Another neighborhood in Manhattan Beach, this one on the south end of the city a few blocks from the beach, will soon decide whether to have its utility poles and lines buried underground.

Manhattan Beach has officially rung in the holidays.

The room is quiet. Fifty or so young people sit on folding metal chairs, their bodies still, all eyes turned to the man on stage.

West Basin Municipal Water District took the next steps Monday night, Nov. 18, toward building a desalination facility in El Segundo, a project that has drawn fierce opposition from conservation groups — including some who staged a rally before the meeting.

Superintendent Dr. Mike Matthews will recommend the appointment of Dr. Suzanne Webb as Manhattan Beach Unified School District's new assistant superintendent of human resources at a board meeting on Nov. 20, it was announced today.

The sweet, smiling blue whale is back where she belongs.

Southern California will need to make room for another 1.3 million more housing units over the next 10 years, with the coastal cities of Los Angeles and Orange counties the preferred destination rather than inland communities, according to a draft plan approved this week by a regional govern…

Steve Crecy, who served two years in the Army during the Vietnam War, may have said it best  — “We know we did our jobs as soldiers right.”

The Manhattan Beach City Council this week threw cold water on a plan to look at turning its Fire Department over to Los Angeles County.

Selling electronic cigarettes and other vaping products is now illegal in Manhattan Beach.

Stacy Dukes : July 11, 1934 - September 19, 2019

Manhattan Beach resident Johnna Stone wants to save the old date palms on her quaint street near the ocean.

It’s just about a 3.5-mile walk from the Manhattan Beach Pier to the Hermosa Beach Pier and back again.

Manhattan Beach Boulevard came alive with superheroes, cartoon characters and — for gourds’ sake — plenty of pumpkins of all shapes, sizes and colors on Sunday afternoon the city’s 29th annual Pumpkin Race.

If you ask Southern California street artist Kidwiseman, the whole world is full of blank slates. Drab, white walls, waiting to be filled with life and color.

Surfer Alex Gray knows the harm addiction can cause.

Carter Daley was just about to turn eight years old when he awoke from a nap with a strange lump on his chest.

If one note rang clear during Thursday evening’s the Best of Manhattan Beach Awards it was Manhattan Beach’s love for Skechers.

Imagine playing volleyball but not being able to hear your teammates yell "Got it!" or "Spike!"

The 49th Annual American Martyrs Parish Fair will return to Manhattan Beach from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 19 and from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 20. 

If he could have stayed in the water — riding the ocean waves and allowing the saltwater to heal his soul — Nancy Miller believes her son Jimmy would still be alive today.

It’s hidden, tucked away on the border of Hawthorne and Manhattan Beach in an inconspicuous area just off the 405 Freeway. 

More than 3,500 runners wound through the city streets early Saturday morning, finishing at the pier for the 42nd annual running of the Manhattan Beach 10K.

The Hometown Fair brought thousands to Manhattan Beach Oct.5-6 for the 47th year.

The 47th Annual Hometown Fair will bring thousands to Manhattan Beach Oct. 5-6 for food, music and fun in the sun.

An urgency ban on sales of all vaporizer products, including all flavored tobacco products, will take root in Manhattan Beach in the coming weeks.

When Jack Nunn returned home from Orlando, Fla. in February of this year, the Manhattan Beach resident was exhausted.