Huntington Beach News

Super Bowl Sunday marathon blocks PCH in Huntington Beach
Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach is closed until mid-afternoon Sunday for the Surf City Marathon, and police are warning of traffic congestion. The closures are expected to continue until 2 p.m. The marathon, which takes place every Super Bowl...

Two arrested in connection to downtown robbery
Two men were booked into the Huntington Beach jail Thursday on suspicion of robbing Hashigo Sushi on Main Street a week ago.

Huntington Beach City School District to Save More Than $15 Million With Solar Upgrades
  HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. , Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Huntington Beach City School District and Chevron Energy Solutions today announced the completion of a 592-kilowatt solar electric system that ...

Huntington Beach homebuying speeds up 12%
Homebuying in Huntington Beach sped up 12% in two weeks.Real estate for sale in Huntington Beach appears on the upswing by one set of statistics.Every two weeks, Steve Thomas of

Costa Mesa opposes bridge link to H.B.
The Costa Mesa City Council officially opposed the plan for the 19th Street Bridge that would connect to Huntington Beach.The council at its Tuesday  night meeting also called on the county transportation authority to remove the $150 million linkage from its master plan of highways, a...

Why is Baseball No Longer an Olympic Sport?
Baseball is a sport loved and played all over the world including North America, Latin America, and Asia. It would make perfect sense for athletes to represent their respective nations in friendly athletic competition as they do with other team-based sports such as basketball or...

School sports legacy increasingly at risk as Olympics draw near | Owen Gibson
Lord Coe vowed the London Olympics would connect young people with the inspirational power of the Games, but there are now real fears this goal will not be realised Around two and a half months before the cream of the world's athletes parade around the track at the opening ceremony of the London Games, a rather more low-key event will mark a new phase in the battle to secure an Olympic legacy ...

More evidence big football players face heart risks
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pro football players may generally enjoy a longer-than-average lifespan -- but the biggest players may be more likely than others to die of heart disease, a U.S. study suggests. The study, reported in the American Journal of Cardiology, followed more than 3,400 NFL players who were active between 1959 and 1988. It found that 334 had died by 2007 -- only about half the ...

Olympic official defends Spain after Contador ban
The head of Spain's Olympic committee stepped up to defend Spanish sport Wednesday in the wake of two-time Tour de France champion cyclist Alberto Contador's two-year ban for doping.

Acting Asian football chief 'keen to stay on'
Acting Asian football chief Zhang Jilong, who replaced the corruption-tainted Mohamed bin Hamman last year, is keen to stay as head of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), a report said Thursday.