The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) Board of Education approved the contracts of Christopher King, Ph.D. and Sylvia Rousseau, Ed.D. as co-interim superintendents at its June 29 regular board meeting. Both contracts are effective July 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016, SMMUSD announced Wednesday evening.

The City of Santa Monica is seeking input from residents who live in rent controlled units through a survey that is active now through July 18.

The survey is a tool for the City to learn about the affordable housing needs of the community, and to determine the magnitude of rent burden among rent-controlled households.

Nat Trives, who also goes by “Mr. Santa Monica,” has accomplished a lot in his 81 years – as a community advocate, who serves on many nonprofit boards, as a professor at Santa Monica College, and as a former mayor and police officer of Santa Monica. He also recently celebrated his 60th wedding anniversary – an impressive personal accomplishment.

In response to Los Angeles’s escalating homelessness crisis, the Salvation Army organized a team of more than 50 volunteers to hand out prepared meals to Santa Monica’s homeless population this past Saturday.

Since its founding in summer of 2012, former Samohi cross-country, track captain, and three-event track record holder Justin Sardo’s Santa Monica Speed Academy has flourished as the area’s first ever youth running club.

Santa Monica is all set to celebrate the 4th of July holiday weekend in style, with thousands expected for the Main Street Parade, and neighboring fireworks displays sure to delight.

This week on Focus On Fitness host Kristin Strange gives us alternatives for unhealthy snacks.

Los Angeles-based nonprofit Last Chance for Animals (LCA) is joining a worldwide coalition of animal rights organizations to stage a vigil tonight in Santa Monica.

A suspicious item has just been removed from the Metro Expo Line Station in downtown Santa Monica at Fourth Street and Colorado Avenue, which had been closed briefly, according to Metro. Full rail service is resuming, according to Metro.

Lionsgate, the Santa Monica studio behind the "Hunger Games" films, will acquire cable and satellite network Starz for a combination of cash and stock totaling $4.4 billion, the two companies announced today.