SolarCity has a plan for Santa Monica. Known as the Community Purchase Plan, it has been tried successfully in several Northern California cities. The San Francisco-based solar power company recently held a meeting at the […]

In Plain Sight Monday, June 18 at 9:35 a.m. – 1000 block of Colorado Avenue – Officers on routine patrol saw a man on the street in possession of an open container of alcoholic beverage […]

The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District’s Board of Education began appointing members to the District’s Measure BB Advisory Committee on June 13. According to the District staff report, the purpose of the committee is to […]

The Shangri-La Hotel at 1301 Ocean Avenue seems as ageless as its name suggests. Its white Streamline Moderne façade, designed by William Foster, has long been a familiar sight to beach-goers. But the 1939 hotel […]

Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus introduced four “Mini Blue” routes on June 24, and the system’s previously approved new fares will take effect on Sunday, July 1. The Mini Blue routes use buses 30 feet […]

Neighbors of the California Incline Bridge Replacement Project expressed deep concern about the disruptive nature of the project to their daily lives at a workshop on the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Assessment (DEIR/EA) held […]

Paulina drives around Santa Monica in a car that always seems ready to conk out. She is making a film about the Pico neighborhood in which she grew up. She hires a young cameraman, interviews […]

It is not certain that West Los Angeles College will have a baseball team next season, but sources within the sport continue to believe progress is being made.        But time is growing short. Because […]

Tom Seyler, who was fired as the Palisades High baseball coach after his pitchers hit seven Chatsworth High batters in a playoff game, has dropped his appeal.        Seyler was scheduled for an appeal hearing […]

Kevin Love is coming to UCLA, heralded as the school’s most prominent basketball recruit since Ben Howland became the Bruins’ coach four years ago.        Considering that UCLA has made the Final Four the last […]