Santa Monica’s favorite businesses have been revealed with the delayed, but not diminished, publication of the annual Most Loved guide.

The state's Flex Alert was on again Wednesday but by the evening the California ISO said no forced outages would be necessary.

California legislators are considering a bill to create an ethnic studies course requirement for high school students. The effort was shelved last year, but national protests over racial inequality have helped revive the debate.

True Santa Monica, California, story: I saw a white man wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt. I went up to him and said, "You know, Guevara was racist, called Blacks dumb and lazy." He said, "Really?!"

In 1945, thousands were released from internment camps. But they couldn’t return to the world they had left. Temporary housing in the Winona trailer camp in Burbank, Calif., in 1946. A year earlier, the occupants had lived in internment camps.

LA hosts a ton of film festivals every year, from the biggest of the bunch, Outfest, to more modest events, like the Santa Monica Film Festival. But with movie theaters closed during the pandemic, festivals are doing what so many people and businesses are ...

An excessive heat warning was extended to 9 p.m. Thursday for the San Fernando, Santa Clarita, San Gabriel and Antelope valleys, as well as the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains.

LOS ANGELES, CA — Share-worthy stories from across the Southland Patch cities to talk about tonight. Rat-Infested topiaries terrify Santa Monica shoppers and diners at Third Street Promenade, a lawsuit claims.

The Walt Disney Company yet again tops the annual report tracking the 2019 retail sales of licensed consumer merchandise.Notable debuts to the

SANTA MONICA, CA — Iconic Muscle Beach, the original destination for fitness fans along the boardwalk, remains closed in Santa Monica during the pandemic. "To help slow the spread of COVID-19, Muscle Beach is currently closed," the city states on its ...