The Community Crisis Response Team, part of the city’s heath department and originally launched in 2023 in West Long Beach, ...

Previous plans had the campus in the parking lot of the Long Beach Multi-Service Center — the access hub for city ...

A flea becomes infected when it bites rats, opossums and stray cats that are carrying the disease. The disease is caused by ...

Video of the scene late Wednesday showed officers taking photographs and walking through a homeless encampment set up along ...

“Long Beach’s new Youth Shelter and Navigation Center represents the latest step forward in our city’s investments toward our ...

By expanding our Community Crisis Response team citywide, we are ensuring residents in every neighborhood have access to this ...

City officials and community leaders celebrated the grand opening of the Youth Shelter and Navigation Center on Wednesday, ...

A look at the “localized typhus outbreak” in the City of Long Beach…PLUS – Thoughts on President Trump’s plans to implement a ...

The bacterial disease is spread to humans by fleas carried by wild animals and is not transmitted from person to person.

There have been localized outbreaks near Bixby Park and Junipero Beach, but cases have also been reported citywide, a Health Department official said.

Long Beach health officials report a rise in flea-borne typhus cases, with 20 confirmed as of July 31, 2025. The city may ...