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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

January 28, 2025 -- Santa Monica rents in January saw the largest rise in more than a year, bucking a seasonal trend nationwide, according to Apartment List's monthly report.. The 2 percent increase ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...