Santa Monica City Council will discuss an ordinance at its Tuesday, Feb. 24, meeting that would prohibit certain exotic and wild animals of snakes, reptiles, non-human primates and birds at public parks including Palisades Park. […]

Updated Sunday Feb. 22 – 8:50 a.m. A suspect wanted in connection with a man’s fatal stabbing barricaded himself inside a Santa Monica apartment for more than five hours on Saturday, prompting evacuations of nearby […]

“Birdman,” the Oscar-nominated dark comedy about a washed-up actor trying to revive his career, will enter Sunday’s awards ceremony flying high, following it’s three-award finish at the 30th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, presented Saturday […]

Public transit on the Westside got a little easier, but remains somewhat confusing, as the Big Blue Bus line began accepting fare cards used by Metro trains and buses. New equipment on Big Blue Bus […]

Julianne Moore, Patricia Arquette and J.K. Simmons are probably as close as you can get to being “locks” on Oscar night, but the battle for best actor at Sunday’s ceremony is still a toss-up, while […]

“Birdman,” the Oscar-nominated dark comedy about a washed-up actor trying to revive his career, has a leading six nominations for the 30th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, which honor the best of independent cinema and […]

The action sequel “Transformers: Age of Extinction” has a leading seven nominations heading into tonight’s 35th Golden Raspberry Awards, the awards-show spoof that skewers the worst of movies from the previous year. The Michael Bay-directed […]

A jury determined on Friday that a man who stabbed three homeless people as they slept in downtown Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Hollywood wasn’t sane at the time of the crimes. Courtney Anthony Robinson, […]