December 31, 2025 -- Leo Pustilnikov -- who sued the City after being ousted from the Downtown board and tried opening two mental health facilities on Ocean Avenue -- has defaulted on a $37.5 million ...
December 30, 2025 -- Spring bears bad news as Santa Monica's dream of hosting beach volleyball during the Summer Olympics is dashed, the City loses its second major film event in little over a year ...
LA Police Recover Stolen Cargo in Local Warehouse October 8, 2025 -- On Thursday, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detectives recovered an estimated $500,000 worth of stolen train cargo -- ...
January 28, 2017-- City officials announced Saturday that a landmark agreement had been reached with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to close Santa Monica Airport on December 31, 2028. The ...
September 26, 2024 -- Property owners can once again include a gas stove or furnace in a new Santa Monica building, but they must offset it with a long list of energy efficient items to get a building ...
December 8, 2025 -- City officials announced Friday that City Clerk Nikima Newsome will leave the post in January, marking the fifth department head to depart since July. Newsome will leave the City, ...
March 5, 2024 -- What planning officials deemed inevitable two years ago became a done deal Monday night -- the city's biggest housing development in nearly 60 years was approved unanimously at its ...
Editor's note: A previous version of this article stated that one third of RAND Corporation's local workforce has been laid off. Of the 800 local employees, 73 have were laid off. October 24, 2025 -- ...
I am responding to Kevin McKeown’s October 25, 2024 letter “What Is the Scary SB10 Flyer Really About?”. Before we get into the misdirection, misinformation and obfuscation included in Mr. McKeown’s ...
July 25, 2024 -- The City of Santa Monica has mismanaged the interrelated public safety and homeless issues for almost two decades. City leaders would have us believe that the current conditions are ...
May 1, 2023 -- The City of Santa Monica is facing an unfunded pension liability of nearly half a billion dollars as it struggles to recover from the coronavirus shutdown and pay a $122.5 million ...