Port of Long Beach

Authorities recently seized counterfeit products arriving in shipments from China that, if genuine, would be worth more than $32 million, including more than one million erectile dysfunction pills, along with footwear, belts, purses and headphones, officials said Thursday.

Port of Long Beach officials cut the ribbon Friday on a new bridge that will replace the Gerald Desmond Bridge and is scheduled to open for traffic Monday.

Long Beach Parks, Recreation and Marine is offering 10 weeks of free recreational activities, which include sports, arts, and movie screenings, to families and children throughout the summer as part of its “Summer Fun Days.”

A Reseda man who allegedly plotted to carry out a terrorist bombing during a Long Beach political rally was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on charges of providing material support to terrorists and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

The FBI used a confidential informant to help nab the man accused of threatening to attack the Santa Monica Pier. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, 2019.

After hundreds of members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13 rallied Tuesday at the Port of Los Angeles against an automation plan they argue could cost thousands of jobs, the Board of Harbor Commissioners postponed a vote on the proposal.

Dockworkers fearing increasing automation will cost jobs in the Port of Los Angeles are fighting use of driverless electric cargo trucks.

Some drivers and warehouse workers from two major companies at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports went on strike Monday to protest their classification as independent contractors.

A former volunteer treasurer for a merchant seaman organization in Long Beach and a youth soccer league in Anaheim made his initial court appearance Friday on charges of embezzling more than $1 million.

Long Beach has road multiple closures throughout downtown from July 4-7 to keep an eye out for. The areas primarily affected are the area around Queen Mary, Carnival Cruise terminal and sites heading west out of downtown Long Beach.

The hundreds of truckers each day who leave Terminal Island via the Long Beach (710) Freeway will lose their direct ramp, and have to negotiate traffic lights, turns and traffic on a detour, starting Saturday.

The only freeway ramp that directly connects Terminal Island to the Long Beach (710) Freeway is about to bite the dust, and that will mean several traffic signals on the detour for the heavy stream of trucks leaving the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

A whale was found dead near the Port of Long Beach Wednesday, and authorities are trying to determine how it got there. Fire crews secured the marine animal to a pier overnight until the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration could arrive at the scene to investigate the whale’s cause of death.

Scientists plan to determine who it died and how it got into the harbor. Marin Austin reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Thursday Dec. 28, 2017.

Searchers Thursday found a helicopter that crashed in the Los Angeles Harbor area near San Pedro, along with the remains of two men aboard.

Two men were pulled out from the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed into the water at the Port of Los Angeles. Beverly White reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017.