The City of Santa Monica’s open data initiative has launched online, accessed via data.smgov.net. This Open Data Portal publishes datasets collected and maintained by the City. The initiative launches with access to data in six […]

The City of Santa Monica received a grant in October from the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee (MSRC) of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) to partially fund the purchase of […]

A 53-year-old Long Beach resident was arrested in Santa Monica on Friday, Oct. 24 after dropping his pants and exposing himself to a bank security guard. Officers of the Santa Monica Police Department were called […]

A 33-year-old Santa Monica resident was arrested and charged with public intoxication and battery upon a police officer on Saturday, Oct. 25 after causing havoc on the streets and touching a woman’s breast. Officers of […]

Authorities say the body of missing 20th Century Fox distribution executive Gavin Smith has been found, 2 1/2 years after he went missing. Smith’s body was found by hikers in a rural area near Palmdale […]

A Los Angeles man convicted of murdering an 80-year-old woman inside her home in Venice nearly four decades ago, when he was a teenager, was sentenced today to a potential life prison term. Dennis Vazquez, […]

A former Los Angeles police officer on death row for the murder-for-hire killings of a Brentwood couple in a case that became known as the Yom Kippur murders died Wednesday of natural causes. Steven Homick […]