Communicated by C.A. Weibel MSC: 13D45 13A02 13E10 a b s t r a c t Let R = n≥0 R n be a homogeneous Noetherian ring, let M be a finitely generated graded R-module and let R + = n>0 R n . Let b := b 0 + R + , where b 0 is an ideal of R 0 . In this paper, we first study the finiteness and vanishing of the n-th graded component H i b (M) n of the i-th local cohomology module of M with respect to b. Then, among other things, we show that the set Ass R 0 (H i b (M) n ) becomes ultimately constant, as n → −∞, in the following cases: (i) dim( R 0 b 0 ) ≤ 1 and (R 0 , m 0 ) is a local ring; (ii) dim(R 0 ) ≤ 1 and R 0 is either a finite integral extension of a domain or essentially of finite type over a field; (iii) i ≤ g b (M), where g b (M) denotes the cohomological finite length dimension of M with respect to b. Also, we establish some results about the Artinian property of certain submodules and quotient modules of H i b (M).