Plans to expand the Long Beach airport have cleared a long-standing hurdle, as a Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that "that the city did not violate state law when it approved an environmental report for the expansion." There has been tremendous tension between the city and residents regarding the potential harm to air quality and noise in the area if the airport receives the addition of a new parking garage and an expanded terminal. The......

Hundreds of weary, would-be passengers are wandering through parking lots or holed up in their planes at the Long Beach Airport thanks to something suspicious found in a piece of screened luggage. The bomb squad and their lil robot were called to the scene. The terminal and boarding lounges have been closed and outbound flights have been postponed, airport spokeswoman Sharon Diggs-Jackson said. The airport is still receiving incoming flights, but passengers will be......

Do you have State Farm Insurance? Your rates might be finally going down. (SFV Biz Journal, Registration Required [but worth it, it's free]) What if the City threw a $60,000 meeting and no one showed up? It just might happen at the next Congress of Neighborhoods. (CityWatch) 2006 brought the hottest summer ever for Los Angeles. Too bad we didn't pass Prop 87 and are all still using our cars and polluting the skies,......

What do Pee-Wee Herman, Johnny "Drama," and Alice Nelson from the Brady Bunch all have in common? They are part of Blogging.la's Fictional LA series that has been running since Monday. 25 in total, today is the last day. Who will be the #1 Los Angeles fictional character? Lots of buzz going on about the new ValleyNews.com. We did a test run last night and a few bugs and design elements aside, this site......

During WWII, women flew in the Air Force — they were the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP. It was an elite group: only 1,830 of the 25,000 women who applied were accepted into the WASP training program — 1,074 graduated. 38 WASP died serving our country. They flew every craft being used by the Air Force (albiet never in combat) including the powerful B-24 Witchcraft, which had 130 combat missions at the hands......

Long Beach Airport has been semi-shut down after a man ducked security to run onto the tarmac. News outlets are working on getting further details. UPDATE: Everything is up and running again and a man has been arrested, Channel 4 reports.. Martini Republic has endorsed Chris Arellano for school board. We're not endorsing anyone, because we just haven't been paying enough attention to the candidates. But we're impressed by those who passed the LA......

Today Jet Blue Flight 292 departed at 3:17pm from Bob Hope Airport. While in flight, the Airbus A320 (with 145 passengers) experienced a nose gear malfunction. Air traffic controllers subsequently instructed the crew the to dump fuel over the ocean. Apparently pilots were unable to do so. Instead they're flying low and burning off fuel before attempting an emergency landing (either at LAX or Long Beach Airport). Update: At 6:20pm Pacific time, the airplane......