Flanked by a broad coalition of supporters, former LWV of Santa Monica President Natalya Zernitskaya officially kicked off her campaign for Santa Monica City Council last week, unveiling her plan to move the city forward and return it to its “people ...

I wanted to believe that humanity was more courageous, more rooted in morality than corporal fear. Premium Santa Monica news in your inbox. It's free, cancel anytime. But throughout history we see that Hobbes was often right. When violence strikes ...

The Santa Monica Pier’s amusement park introduced “Snackville” on June 7, a colony of customer-pleasing stands serving burgers, fries, churros, ice cream, funnel cake and frozen fruit treats. The new locale is the first of $10 million in capital ...

As a group of Samohi seniors prepare to put Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) in the rearview mirror, it is also time for some of the district’s dedicated employees to also ride into the sunset.

Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, said today at the CalMatters Ideas Festival. Premium Santa Monica news in your inbox. It's free, cancel anytime. Wiener and other panelists, in a discussion moderated by CalMatters homelessness reporter Marisa ...

The northeast end of Wilshire Blvd has needed a little injection of life since the pandemic and newly opened restaurant Chelsea aims to do exactly that. The talented father-and-son team of Moez Megji and Karim Megji are behind the endeavor and they bring an abundance of hospitality experience to the table.

It’s the billion-dollar question. That’s how much cities and other local governments have been receiving from the state each year to deal with California’s ever-increasing population of homeless people.

State officials broke down the Removal Action Workplan (RAW) at McKinley Elementary School this week, a plan to mitigate potentially harmful chemicals within the campus’ soil and soil vapors. On Tuesday,

On Thursday afternoon, over a period of approximately 90 minutes between 1:30pm and 3pm, a motorbike-mounted officer for the Santa Monica Police Department pulled over a total of seven vehicles for running through the stop sign placed where Olympic Blvd meets 5th Street,

Highly Recommended Tedeschi Trucks Band, Little Feat – Susan Tedeschi was a very well regarded blueswoman (guitar, soulful vocals) with albums and tours, before she met and married Derek Trucks, nephew of original Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks.

The BroadStage complex includes the indoor-outdoor hybrid Plaza space, which hosts the "blackbox" series of blues rhythm performances.

Yes! It really, truly is June and a stone fruit jubilee is awaiting you at the farmers markets tempting you with all your favorites including peaches, nectarines, apricots, cherries with plums and pluots on the way!

A place where anybody can be themselves resonated with the local community, who recently supported a dance troupe dedicated to inclusivity. This past month, Santa Monica-based non-profit Free 2 Be Me Dance,

Every year thousands of residents in California are shocked to learn they owe the IRS for their subsidized health plan. Here’s how to avoid it

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night may prevent the Post Office from the swift completion of its appointed rounds but your dog is a whole other story. The Post Office is in the midst of a national awareness campaign highlighting the frequency of dog attacks on mail carriers and asking residents

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Southern Pacific Railroad wielded almost total control over California’s politics, angering farmers who believed they were being gouged by high freight rates and fueling a powerful populist movement.

Every tax season hundreds of thousands of Californians are hit with an unexpected bill: They owe hundreds of dollars or more to the IRS because they accepted more money in subsidies for health insurance than they were allowed.

As Dr. Rishi Patel’s street medicine van bounces over dirt roads and empty fields in rural Kern County, he’s looking for a particular patient he knows is overdue for her shot. The woman, who has schizophrenia and has been living outside for five years,

It’s never too soon for young students to consider their future goals, as superstars in their respective fields often have their minds made up career-wise from an early age. The seventh-grade class at Lincoln Middle School can attest to this,

Council prioritized public safety over streets at its last meeting by diverting money from road projects to the Santa Monica Police Department. The fiscal year 2024-25 proposed budget study session in Tuesday’s City Council meeting generated nearly three hours of discussion that was ultimately dominated by a trade off between a number of Capital Improvement