September 17, 2025 -- State Sen. Ben Allen, who will be termed out of his Santa Monica area seat next year announced Tuesday that he will run for California Insurance Commissioner.

September 17, 2025 -- A California Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case seeking to reinstate murder charges against a homeless man allowed to undergo treatment without a trial.

The incident took place around midnight Tuesday, June 12, 2024 outside Jameson's pub during a fight that broke out after the manager, Jaysent Clark, 50, asked several patrons to leave. "Out on the ...

September 16, 2025 -- The water around the Pier is among the most polluted on the West Coast, and on Monday it turned pink. The change had nothing to do with increased bacteria, but the pink dye could ...

This time, the final version of the bill was scaled down to include mainly passenger rail lines, with the tallest buildings -- up to nine stories -- only allowed adjacent to heavy rail lines like BART ...

The changing of the guard comes a little over one month after City Manager Oliver Chi became Santa Monica's top administrator on July 24 and follows the resignation of Police Chief Ramon Batista.

The resolution is a tool that can be used to help implement "a citywide game plan" scheduled to be presented to the Council next month that lays out ways to tackle Santa Monica's fiscal crisis by ...

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 ...

Run out of two trailers on the Civic Auditorium lot, the State-funded program -- which costs $8 million over three years -- offers a "respite hub" for those with current or prior low-level ...

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 ...

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.

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.