Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. (DTSM, Inc.), has announced a lineup of events for the season. Celebrate the early days of spring with chess competitions, Conscious Markets, free outdoor movies ...

Credit: Thomas Leffler On April 8, the City of Santa Monica announced the winners of the 28th annual Sustainable Quality Awards, a partnership between the city and environmental education ...

The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it will close a women’s prison in California known as the "rape club" despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.

Prosecutors are calling the brutal sexual assaults of two women in Venice one of the worst cases they have ever seen and are pursuing life in prison for the suspect, identified as Anthony Francisco Jones.

YAWN — sleepy or tired while you read this and wish you could get some more shut-eye, you’re not alone. A majority of Americans say they would feel better if they could have more sleep, according to a new poll.

Corn chips, tortillas, tamales and pupusas — while all delicious may be missing a key vitamin for women of reproductive age.

Premium Santa Monica news in your inbox. It's free, cancel anytime. The researchers, hoping to learn more about the plants to better protect them from pests and climate change, found that the species emerged around 600,000 years ago through natural ...

President Biden is canceling student loans for another 206,000 borrowers as part of a plan that offers a faster route to forgiveness.

Bail has been set at $2 million for Victory Nguyen, a 41-year-old self-employed chef, after he fired numerous rounds—estimated between 30 and 50—from the rooftop of an apartment building in Marina Del Rey while livestreaming the event on social media.

LAPD confirmed the arrest of 29-year-old Anthony Jones in relation to the recent assaults during a press conference last week.

While California continues to host political struggles over how to deal with the housing shortage, demand continues to outpace construction.

Hundreds of homes in Joe Patterson’s Northern California Assembly district burned to the ground in the Caldor Fire. In the three years since that devastating summer, many of those rebuilding homeowners have ended up on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars,

Each piece of art tells a story, with perhaps no story being more relevant to Los Angeles than the Chicano art movement. Influenced by post-Mexican Revolution ideology, pre-Columbian art, European painting techniques and social issues facing Mexican-Americans,

When I began covering California politics 49 years ago, digital technology was in its infancy and the Capitol ran on paper. If you wanted to know what was on the Legislature’s agenda, you visited the “bill room” in the Capitol basement and asked for the daily files of each legislative house.

One afternoon, after watching Kareem Campbell’s part in the World Industries skate video "Trilogy" for the third consecutive time, my mom laughed after his slow-motion nollie hardflip over a picnic table.

California lawmakers don’t know for sure how big their budget deficit is, but on Thursday they decided it’s big enough to go ahead and reduce spending by about $17 billion.

You might think the home of Silicon Valley would rush to hire a cybersecurity chief, but you’d be wrong: California has left its top cybersecurity post vacant for nearly two years.

The current session of the California Legislature, like all recent sessions, has featured the state’s perpetual conflict over its acute shortage of housing.

Credit: Thomas Leffler The Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD), working with a multitude of partners, has announced the arrest of three of the six suspects involved in a March burglary of Ulta ...

The popular pastry store on Wilshire Blvd is set to close this Saturday. However, it will soon be replaced with a brand new