Sewage Spill Closes Long Beach Swimming Areas

All of Long Beach’s coastal swimming areas, including its bays and lagoons, remain closed after about 29,000 gallons of sewage spilled from a broken pipe in Belmont Shore on Friday evening.

Roughly 14,000 gallons reached the ocean, while a cleanup contractor recovered about 15,000 gallons and crews rerouted flows to a secondary line.

Emergency repairs to the pressurized sewer main are underway, and officials haven’t said what caused the break. Water testing resumes today, and the city’s health department will decide when beaches reopen.

Solar Plant Could Bring 600 Jobs to Hanford

AMPS Solar is turning a former Del Monte tomato plant in Hanford into a solar module assembly facility that could employ more than 600 people over the next few years.

The company’s site plan calls for up to 8 gigawatts of capacity inside the existing warehouses on the 125-acre site, with operations running up to 24 hours a day and about 200 workers per shift.

Recruiting for assembly, manufacturing, packaging, and shipping jobs begins in November, including entry-level roles that require no experience. Production will phase in, and hiring is expected to ramp up once the line is running.

California Home Affordability Stuck at 19%

Just 19% of California households could afford a median-priced single-family home in the third quarter, unchanged from the spring, according to the California Association of Realtors.

Buyers statewide needed a minimum income of about $228,000 to qualify, and in Orange County a $1.47 million median-priced home required $374,400 in annual income.

Affordability had climbed to 22% in the first quarter, a four-year high, before slipping in the spring as mortgage rates ticked up. In Los Angeles County, buyers needed about $244,000 to afford a $958,450 median-priced home.

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➤ Chico: The downtown ice rink returns to Chico City Plaza on Nov. 12, with Cal Water as this season’s title sponsor, offering public skating, private rentals, field trips, and adult 3-on-3 hockey. (More)

➤ Shasta-Trinity National Forest: Crews plan two prescribed burns starting Monday, about 83 acres near Weaverville and roughly 2,000 acres east of McCloud along Highway 89, so nearby residents may see smoke. (More)

➤ Tehama County: Officials are asking for public input on a state grant application to restore Woodson Bridge and River Park, a 60-year-old Sacramento River park where about 1,700 feet of riverbank is actively eroding. (More)

➤ Marysville: Local artist Louie Lethridge has painted a three-panel mural on Cal Water’s downtown office that celebrates the city’s Gold Rush roots as the “Gateway to the Gold Fields,” along with the Bok Kai Parade, Ellis Lake, and the company’s 100 years in town. (More)

➤ Alturas: The City Council voted 3-2 to lay off one police officer by Dec. 31 to cut costs, while tabling a broader plan that would have eliminated two more officers and a dispatcher. (More)

➤ San Ardo: Monterey County leaders will cut the ribbon today at 12:20 p.m. on new sidewalks at Center and Godchaux streets, part of a plan to make the small Salinas Valley town safer for pedestrians. (More)

➤ Selma: The Selma Healthcare District approved $100,000 toward Selma Holiday Magic, a temporary ice rink and winter wonderland on downtown’s Mill Street that runs Dec. 5–20. (More)

➤ Madera County: Animal Services officers used hot dogs to lure a mother dog that had evaded them for weeks out of a ponding basin, reuniting her with her puppies, who are now safe and healthy. (More)

➤ Santa Barbara: The Santa Barbara Zoo euthanized Antonio, its 4-year-old capybara, after a months-long fight with multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer. (More)

➤ Santa Maria: Police launched an AI dispatch system that answers some non-emergency calls in 30 languages and transfers anything involving a crime in progress, weapons, or threats to a live dispatcher. (More)

➤ San Luis Obispo: Waterman Village, a 20-tiny-home project for low-income workers and seniors on Dana Street, can move forward after a judge rejected a lawsuit that had stalled it for nearly two years. (More)

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➤ West Hollywood: Thousands of costumed revelers packed nearly a mile of Santa Monica Boulevard on Saturday night for the city’s Halloween Carnaval, which went on despite steady rain. (More)

➤ San Diego: City and county crews are clearing drains, reinforcing beach berms, and shoring up trails at Cowles Mountain and Los Peñasquitos Canyon ahead of what forecasters say could be a historically wet El Niño winter. (More)

➤ Oceanside: One person died and another was hurt Friday evening when their boat capsized and struck the rocks near the Del Mar Jetty. (More)

➤ Los Angeles: Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky asked the city’s transportation department to study a pilot that would let volunteers legally repaint existing crosswalks, after more than a year of unpermitted painting by the group People’s Vision Zero. (More)

➤ East Village: Father Joe’s Villages broke ground on San Diego’s first mass-timber affordable housing project, an eight-story, 124-unit building, after switching to engineered wood cut the cost per unit from $530,000 to $380,000. (More)

➤ The Los Angeles Rams improved to 4-4 with a 24-9 win over the Los Angeles Chargers in the Battle of Los Angeles on Sunday. Matthew Stafford threw a touchdown pass, while Blake Corum and Kyren Williams each scored on the ground. (More)

➤ UCLA climbed two spots to No. 5 in the latest AP Top 25 after improving to 8-0, while USC jumped 13 spots to No. 18. (See Full Rankings)

➤ Jeanie Buss asked a judge to block her siblings’ effort to sell the family’s remaining Lakers shares, accusing them of a “cloak and dagger” campaign through the media to undermine her control of the franchise. (More)

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➤ Japan-based art collective teamLab will open its first U.S. museum at OCVibe in Anaheim. The 110,000-square-foot building is planned for a parking lot behind the ARTIC transit center and is set to open in 2030. (More)

➤ San Francisco’s Polk Street bars were packed Saturday for Crawloween, the citywide Halloween pub crawl that Mayes Oyster House owner Matt Corvi says draws 11,000 to 15,000 people. Corvi said business is about 90% back to normal. (More)

➤ California’s Strategic Growth Council awarded $60.5 million to 36 tribes for housing and climate projects, including $52 million in predevelopment funding expected to lead to about 900 new homes. Recipients include the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians, which received nearly $3 million for a 44-unit low-income housing project. (More)

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➤ Big Bear’s One Sky Week runs Nov. 4–7, with a locals’ night and guided 1.2-mile night hikes on the Towne Trail followed by stargazing through telescopes. Organizers recommend bringing warm layers for the mountain chill. (More)

➤ Tickets are on sale for the Sentry Open, the former Farmers Insurance Open, which returns to Torrey Pines Jan. 27–30 for its 60th straight year in La Jolla. Grounds passes start at $50, and kids 15 and under get in free with a paying adult. (More)

➤ Glinda, the Aquarium of the Pacific’s giant Pacific octopus, got an early Halloween treat: a cat-shaped jack-o’-lantern stuffed with ahi tuna and weighted to sink into her tank. She promptly dragged the whole pumpkin into her den, and the Long Beach aquarium shared the video on social media. (See Video)

➤ Three small earthquakes rattled California overnight Saturday into Sunday: a magnitude 2.5 near Westley on Saturday night, then a magnitude 2.7 near Petrolia, and a 2.6 near Santa Barbara about eight minutes apart early Sunday, according to USGS data. (More)

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What’s your favorite California sea creature?

1. Elephant seal
2. Gray whale
3. Great white shark
4. Octopus
5. Sea lion
6. Sea otter
7. Something else (reply to tell us)

Yesterday’s Results:

What would you do if a great white swam by you in the ocean?

1. I don’t go in the ocean: 42%
2. Stay calm and stay put: 29%
3. Head for shore immediately: 25%
4. Grab my phone and film it: 4%

In 1960, at a research lab in Malibu, California, physicist Theodore Maiman used a synthetic ruby crystal to produce an intense, focused beam of light, the first of its kind in history. What landmark invention did he demonstrate?

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