The latest from SMPD.

The City of Santa Monica will celebrate National Arbor Day Friday, by planting 24 new trees at Crescent Bay Park.

Gibson International’s newly opened Santa Monica office features a team of agents who are knowledgeable about the market and the local community and are mostly past or present Santa Monica residents.

In real estate, there are many myths about buying a home. Here are five of the most common and pervasive beliefs.

A Santa Monica landlord is facing allegations of using fire to illegally evict rent-controlled tenants after flames ripped through an Ocean Front Walk building late last year, with low-income residents claiming they were literally left out in the cold with nowhere to sleep.

OpEd: “What is Santa Monica’s current development platform?” and it is the Land Use Circulation Element or LUCE… which LUVE would like to alter.

Local artist Doni Silver Simons and choreographer Donna Sternberg collaborate with fabulous performance piece held early April titled “49 Days: Women Who Count.”

Meet realtor Murray Weisberg – he is the associate manager at Sotheby’s lnternational Realty in Brentwood. He is also the 2005 past president of the Beverly Hills/Greater Los Angeles Association of Realtors, and has served for many years as a Director of the California Association of Realtors.

A new exhibition aims at drawing attention to the burdens that K-12 students carry while at school, hoping to shed light on the importance of kids being kids. “When Did it Stop Being Fun” opens Saturday at DNJ Gallery in Santa Monica, with a panel discussion scheduled mid-way through the exhibition run.