Santa Monica voters passed Measure FS on Tuesday night that will now give the Rent Control Board the chance to discuss and possibly increase the City’s Rent Control registration fee up to $288 per unit […]

Santa Monica voters rejected Measure H on Tuesday that sought to increase the city’s real estate transfer tax. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, the ‘no’ vote collected 10,325 votes (57.8 percent) with only 7,528 […]

Santa Monica voters re-elected all four incumbents on the Santa Monica College Board of Trustees on Tuesday night. Nancy Greenstein was the top vote-getter with 10,859 votes (20.49 percent). She was followed by Louise Jaffe […]

Proposition 46, a wide-ranging initiative that included raising the 1975 limit on pain and suffering damages in medical malpractice lawsuits, was easily defeated Tuesday. With 100 percent of precicnts reporting, the ‘no’ vote collected 63.41 […]

Long Beach police Chief Jim McDonnell was preparing today to take over as Los Angeles County sheriff, having easily defeated retired Undersheriff and Gardena Mayor Paul Tanaka. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, McDonnell won […]

Gov. Jerry Brown will be sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term in January, with optimism over the next four years, thanks in part to the passage of two ballot measures he championed. “The world […]

Large development projects and chain stores in Malibu will face increased restrictions thanks to voters’ passage of a measure backed by luminaries such as filmmaker/producer Rob Reiner and actor Dick Van Dyke. Measure R’s proponents […]

Voters who live in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District on Tuesday have likely re-elected board members Laurie Lieberman and Oscar de la Torre as well as two new faces: Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein and Craig Foster. […]

Former Sen. Sheila Kuehl will join the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors thanks to a hard-fought victory over ex-Santa Monica Mayor Bobby Shriver. As of 2:50 am Wednesday, with 91.55 percent of precincts reporting, […]