Original, on-the-ground reports from Santa Monica in your inbox daily, Monday-Saturday. The City of Malibu Community Services Department is proud to offer Winter Day Camps December 20 through December 29 during the Santa Monica – Malibu Unified School ...

SMDP Editor The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles recently honored the Scali Rasmussen law firm with its Pro Bono Law Firm Award in recognition of a yearslong effort to find justice for

Promising to "move people inside" and announcing her plans to declare a state of emergency on homelessness as her first official act, Congresswoman Karen Bass, a native of Los Angeles who has represen

The window for sexual abuse victims of former Santa Monica City employee and volunteer Eric Uller to file a claim with the City will come to a close at the […]

At its November 17 meeting, the 13-member Board of Directors for Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. (DTSM) charged with the stewardship of the 30-block property-based assessment district identified and approved six

Westside Food Bank is providing a one-to-one match for every dollar donated to its Million Meals Match campaign through the end of 2022. The Johnny Carson Foundation, Westside Food Bank […]

Researchers from the Pacific Neuroscience Institute (PNI) at Providence Saint John’s Health Center have discovered a novel method to accurately identify and diagnose patients with cognitive impairments using functional mapping

Editor, The published Commentary “Tricky measure allows release of violent felons” (Santa Monica Daily Press, December 7) captured my attention, not only for its chilling examples of the failure of

A proposal to add digital outdoor advertising kiosks has prompted the threat of a lawsuit from a company spurned by the selection process.

A recently agreed upon increase in teacher salaries will leave the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) in the red by about $20 million this year but school officials said […]

A former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for smuggling what he believed was methamphetamine through Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in exchange for

Original, on-the-ground reports from Santa Monica in your inbox daily, Monday-Saturday. Officials are using the recent arrest of a group of catalytic converter thieves to remind residents thefts ...

Original, on-the-ground reports from Santa Monica in your inbox daily, Monday-Saturday. With the holiday season in full swing, the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) is making its annual ...

Dr. Robert Anda, one of the authors of the original study of Adverse Childhood Experiences, cautioned that the scores from questionnaires to screen children for ACEs could be "misapprop

MATTHEW HALL & Jamie Paige Daily Press Writers Looking for places to get your Christmas spirit in full swing? There are some good events and how much you participate is […]

Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed three plastic reduction ordinances, supported by Reusable LA. These new laws ban the distribution and sale of expanded polystyrene (EPS) products, close loopholes in

Rules are rules. Animal control officials in Southern California have granted permission for a little girl to keep a unicorn at home, provided she follows strict guidelines. Los Angeles County […]

For most people, reading is second nature – it’s almost muscle memory. As you read the words on this page right now, you likely are not thinking about how you read or the mechanisms our brains use to

Crime Watch is culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. On […]

SMDP Editor A week after warning a new mask mandate was on the horizon, Los Angeles officials are now saying the area may well escape any new Covid rules. Los Angeles County remains sligh