Reducing traffic lanes and adding a wider pedestrian space filled with cafes and plazas is being applauded by fans of the area.

That the basketball icon Kobe Bryant’s brilliant and complicated life came to an end in a fiery crash on a hillside in the Santa Monica Mountains on Sunday seemed to only underscore the ubiquity of the helicopter in this sprawling and traffic-choked metropolis. “Traffic started getting really, really bad,” he once explained.

In fact, Dennis Glavis, the longstanding Morgan importer who’s based in Santa Monica, Calif., admits he enjoys driving the Plus 4 more than the more powerful model. I get it. Photos by Drew Phillips If anything, the Plus 4’s relentless minimalism is a benefit, not a liability, that helps distinguish it in a field annoyingly perfect cars ...

Kenneth Sauder — on behalf of Wakeland Wilcox LLC — has filed plans for a four-story, 62-unit building at 4904-4920 W. Santa Monica Boulevard, county records show. The building would have a substantial affordable component. The entity acquired the property, now a 4,850-square-foot office building and adjacent parking lot, for $6.4 million ...

These children's museums break up the winter doldrums with enough hands-on engagement to fill an exciting weekend getaway with the kids.

The campus includes a gym, a band room, computer and science labs, athletic fields, and an indoor running rack. Agassi is co-managing partner of the Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, which is based in Santa Monica, California. Investing in charter school is one of its main strategies. It has developed over 79 schools across the country.

Meanwhile, a DC-7B transport plane was returning to Douglas Aircraft’s Santa Monica plant after a routine test run. One jet slammed into the wing of the transport plane, and both went down. Part of an engine crashed through the roof of a church.

Matter shared a photo of the impersonator doing a flip in the air and explained that he gathered a crowd at Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles and had an acrobat do a "cheer flip" which revealed that the person wasn't Eilish. "I had absolutely no intention of disrespecting Billie. I’m a big fan, like everyone else. I’ve never done a celebrity ...

Lopez models the brand's new spring 2020 collection, shot by photographer Tatiana Gerusova in sunny Santa Monica, California. J.Lo rocks Guess' glamorous wares from a white pinstripe pantsuit to a printed backless silk dress. Her voluminous curled hair and smoky eye makeup channel Italian film icon Sophia Loren. “Whenever I do a collaboration ...

“Marty and I talk about everything in the editing room — religion, politics, art, music,” says three-time Oscar-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker during a recent interview at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. “Marty” is, of course, Martin Scorsese, with whom she began working in 1967 and has cut all of his movies since “Raging ...