The City of Monterey Park is coming together to celebrate the Lunar New Year, over a year after a tragic shooting claimed 11 lives at the festival in 2023. The celebrations are taking place at Down… ...

Traditional red envelops are passed at to attendees at the Boys and Girls Clubs of West San Gabriel Valley annual Lunar New Year event in Monterey Park on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024.

It was late Saturday night in Monterey Park, and the city’s Lunar New Year festival had ended an hour earlier. People were still strolling through downtown when the noise echoed from a ballroom ...

For Aaron Jia, 36, the Lunar New Year’s festival in Monterey Park is huge for his company, which was prepared to sell thousands of packages of hard-to-get Chinese snacks.

It occurred about an hour after the city’s Lunar New Year festival ended. Two police officers stand guard near a scene where a shooting took place in Monterey Park, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023.

Police officers stand guard near the scene of a deadly shooting on Sunday in Monterey Park, Calif. 11 people were killed at a dance studio near a Lunar New Year celebration on Saturday night.

The City of Monterey Park announced that it would cancel the second day of the Lunar New Year festival, which was scheduled for Sunday, January 22, in response to the shooting.

The Monterey Park government website says that past Lunar New Year events in Monterey Park have “drawn crowds estimated at over 100,000 visitors per day from all over the Southern California ...

Major cities, including New York and Los Angeles, are stepping up security precautions ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations following a mass shooting Saturday night in Monterey Park, California.

How a Lunar New Year celebration became a fight for survival. January 31, 2023. ... Monterey Park police officers — including rookies who had been on patrol for just months — rushed to the scene.

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