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by Kevin Cody I’ve published Easy Reader for over 50 years. It’s fun. A reporter friend described reporting as “play with purpose.” I bike to the end of the Hermosa pier and photograph people fishing. I talk to people along the way, and then write about whether to save the pier, or let it crumble […]

by Kevin Cody A bomb threat led Hermosa Beach Police to evacuate businesses along The Strand at about 8:30 Tuesday morning, from the Hermosa pier north to Noble Park, at 14th Street. Gardena police with bomb sniffing K9s concluded a search of the businesses, and beach in front of the businesses just before 10 a.m. […]

by Chelsea Sektnan  At the January 13, 2026, board meeting of the Palos Verdes Homes Association & Art Jury, the board received the results of the 2026 board election. All five incumbents and two challengers were on the ballot. The results were the same as they have been in every election since 2009, with the […]

By Jefferson Graham I’ve traveled all over the world filming the PhotoWalksTV series, capturing iconic vistas from bustling European capitals to remote tropical shores. But after every journey, coming home always brings the same realization: there is no place on earth quite like our own backyard right here in Manhattan Beach. Living here means waking […]

by Mark McDermott Video by Brad Jacobson (@iambradjacobson) It was a match that seemed set up for comeuppance. Mira Costa High School’s nationally top-ranked boys volleyball team faced its bitterest archrivals, No. 2 Loyola, whom they’d beaten twice already this season, most recently a week ago in a dominating three set sweep to claim the […]

by Garth Meyer Redondo Beach Police responded to a 911 call around 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning about a threat on the Pier, which led to evacuation of the area and a delay in the doors opening for day three of the nearby BeachLife Festival. The Pier was re-opened at 1:35 p.m. Police and Redondo Beach […]

You don’t have to hop a plane to Europe or Mexico to feel like you’ve escaped Los Angeles. As many in the South Bay know, just 22 miles off the Southern California coast sits Santa Catalina Island, the rocky little paradise that feels a world away yet is only about an hour by ferry on […]

by Kevin Cody Over 20 juvenile sharks, six- to eight-feet in length, were caught by fishermen on the Hermosa Beach Pier on Saturday, April 11.  La Playita restaurant owner Harold Cohen said he saw the fishermen catch and release five sharks in the span of an hour during a break he took on the pier […]

by Alessandra Haddick The Hermosa Beach Surfer Walk of Fame has been a source of pride for the community since the first inductions in 2003. That year, bronze plaques were installed on the pier to commemorate legendary surfers and surfboard builders Hap Jacobs, Greg Noll, Dale Velzy, Dewey Weber, Mike Purpus, Bing Copeland and Rick […]

by Kevin Cody “Eleanor, come out with your hands up. This has been going on long enough,” a police officer called out over a bullhorn in front of the home of Demetrius Doukoullos, 92, in the 500 block of The Strand, in Hermosa Beach. The officer was a crisis negotiator with the Hawthorne/Hermosa Beach Police […]

  Video by Jefferson Graham. Photos by Kevin Cody [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”258″ display=”pro_tile” animate_images_enable=”0″ animate_images_style=”wobble” animate_images_duration=”1500″ animate_images_delay=”250″]by Kevin Cody Last March, South Bay Takes a Stand staged a walk along The Strand, from the Manhattan Beach pier to the Hermosa Beach pier, to protest ICE enforcement of President Trump’s deportation policies. An estimated 2,000 people […]

Hermosa Beach Police issued a “shelter in place” order to homes in South Hermosa Beach Friday afternoon after receiving a call at 4:10 p.m that shots had been fired in the 100 block of Palm Drive. Hermosa Beach, with the assistance from neighboring police agencies, closed off South Hermosa between Hermosa Avenue on the west, […]