SANTA MONICA, CA — Los Angeles County health officials Thursday warned surfers and swimmers about high bacteria levels in the water at several Los Angeles beaches, including Santa Monica. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health urged people to be careful in ocean waters around discharging storm drains,

The U.S. pandemic economic recovery moved full steam ahead in July as employers added nearly 1 million jobs. About 943,000 non-farm jobs were added in July and unemployment dropped 0.5 percentage points to 5.

With a gold medal clinched and an American flag draped over his shoulders, Draymond Green was in his glory Friday night in Tokyo. A pure winner to the core, exerting the kind of influence that can’t be found in a box score,

At least 85% of single-use plastics in the state do not actually get recycled. Instead, they wind up in the landfill. Sen. Ben Allen's bill would require truthful labeling.

Cassie Randolph goes public with her first boyfriend since dating Colton Underwood from The Bachelor. Here's how she announced her new romance.

A woman was struck and killed by a vehicle early Saturday morning in Santa Monica. The fatal collision occurred at around 2:30 a.m. in the area of Main Street and Ashland Avenue. Paramedics transported the female victim to an area hospital,

Santa Monica's newest park includes a 3.5 acres multi-purpose sports field, but when Dr. Alison Rose Jefferson walks around, she sees something most do not — a hidden history. "This area where we are at the edge of the Civic Center campus used to be a neighborhood up until the 1950s,

Don Carlos Padilla is an agave farmer in San Julian, in the Los Altos region of Jalisco, Mexico. He has been producing artisan tequila for a local market for more than 25 years. How he came to meet two guys with Las Cruces roots — with hopes of bringing his unique tequila to a wider audience — is quite a story.

The streaming wars have created an arms race for the hottest shows and movies, but the writers behind them are getting a raw deal. That's the perspective of Meredith Stiehm as she prepares to take on her presidency of the Writers Guild of America,

Dementia is a much-feared prospect of getting older, but it's increasingly common: Experts estimate that the number of Americans with dementia will double by the year 2040, as a growing population ages and people live longer.