A small airplane crashed Friday in Lake Balboa near Van Nuys Airport shortly after takeoff, killing the pilot, a professor at Arizona State University. The man, identified by the coroner’s office as 47-year-old Alberto Enrique […]

A dry, non-watered Christmas tree and a possible short in the string of decorative lights led to a fire inside a Santa Monica apartment on Monday. The Santa Monica Fire Department said firefighters responded to […]

Four Los Angeles police officers and a Los Angeles city firefighter were transported to a hospital early today for treatment of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning, authorities said. The officers and firefighter were exposed as they […]

“Boyhood,” “Interstellar” and “Game of Thrones” are among 11 films and 10 television programs that will be celebrated today as winners of AFI Awards from the American Film Institute. “We celebrate these films and television […]

Fox announced Thursday it has renewed the Emmy-winning animated comedy”Bob’s Burgers” for a sixth season, ordering 22 additional episodes. “Bob’s Burgers” received the Emmy as television’s outstanding animated program for the 2013-14 season after being […]

Rod Taylor, the Australian actor best known for his roles as H.G. Wells in “The Time Machine” and opposite Tippi Hedren in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” died Thursday at his Los Angeles home at age […]

Two gunmen, one wearing a monkey mask and the other wearing a gorilla mask, robbed a Fairfax district store of numerous pairs of Nike Jordan shoes for women on Thursday, police said. The suspects, each […]

Despite extensive neighborhood protest, a development for 10 residential units at the site of 802 Ashland Avenue, Santa Monica, got the go-ahead Monday, with the design, colors, materials and landscape plans passed by the City’s […]

The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce has announced three of its honorees who will be recognized during the annual State of the City breakfast later this month. The awards highlight those who have made significant […]