September 9, 2025 -- Two of the six Downtown Board members removed by the City Council filed a lawsuit Friday that seeks to invalidate the appointments the Council is expected to make Tuesday.

LA Opera describes the plot this way: "In the musical retelling, New York City’s West Side is split between the Jets and the Sharks -- but these warring gangs never imagined that two of their own ...

Instead, Deputy Fire Chief Tom Clemo, who was assigned as Incident Commander of the California Interagency Incident Management Team 7, reported fraud to federal agencies, officials said in a statement ...

September 8, 2025 -- Police on Wednesday arrested a man believed to be homeless who is suspected of stabbing an employee of an eatery near the Pier over Memorial Day weekend. The stabbing took place ...

September 5, 2025 -- The City Council on Tuesday will fill six vacancies on the Downtown Board to replace the members it ousted in an unprecedented move two and a half months ago.

September 3, 2025 -- In a letter sent to neighborhood groups over the weekend, City Manager Oliver Chi provided some initial insights into recent public safety decisions that have spurred ...

SMC, which made the magazine's top 40 list in 2022, joined such schools as AFI Conservatory, Columbia University, New York ...

September 3, 2025 -- In an unusual move, Santa Monica's most prominent slow-growth group on Tuesday joined an effort to retain Police Chief Ramon Batista after his surprise resignation last month.

The "fiscal distress" is only expected to worsen, with the fiscal year budget adopted by the Council on June 24 already failing to meet its adjusted expenditures of $484.3 million and $473.5 million ...

August 26, 2025 -- City officials on Monday formally announced the resignation of Police Chief Ramón Batista and the appointment of Deputy Chief Darrick Jacob as Acting Chief of Police.

September 28-- Four thousand feet from the Santa Monica shoreline, the murky depths of the Pacific Ocean churn with life. The ocean floor, lying at a depth of approximately 60 feet, is home to some ...

"Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of ...