Chosen to serve terms ending on June 30, 2026 were Sean Besser, president of the Ocean Park Association Board (OPA), Hodge Patterson, CEO of the Santa Monica Family YMCA and Albin Gielicz, a member of ...

The latest Santa Monica Pulse poll found that 87 percent of respondents were unsatisfied with the Council's performance since four new members were seated last December. Of those, 78 percent were ...

September 10, 2025 -- The developer of the 521-unit mixed use housing project at the Gelson's site at Lincoln and Ocean Park boulevards will not be moving ahead with the approved project.

The suspect -- identified as Calvin Otis Arnold, 58, -- was booked into the Santa Monica Jail on charges of "peeping while loitering" and prowling. He remained in police custody Tuesday.

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.

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 ...

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