Heal The Bay’s latest beach report card is in, and the news is not good for Santa Monica Pier beach. The popular tourist spot ranks fifth on the environment group’s annual Beach Bummer List for the most polluted beaches in California.

In the wake of their highly anticipated European tour cancellation due to the Brussels terrorist attacks, student members of the Santa Monica High School Symphony Orchestra have turned their disappointment into positive action.

OpEd: Voting Day for the Presidential Primary Election is Tuesday, June 7. Santa Monicans are talking about the upcoming event. Really they are talking about the issues impacting us and the world: what is the future of our health care, education, immigration, human rights, international rights, women’s rights, worker’s rights, can we put an end to terrorism, the place of the United States around the world, civil rights, safety, violence of all kinds, and who is the most qualified, in all ways, to be able to do the best job of being our president.

Santa Monica City Clerk, Denise Anderson-Warren, announced that the City Clerk’s Office has partnered with the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office in a new pilot Will Call Ballot Pick Up and Drop-Off program for the June 7 Presidential Primary.

Colorado Esplanade to open with a ribbon cutting by Santa Monica.Mayor Tony Vazquez followed by the kickoff of Coast

Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement in light of yesterday’s tragedy at UCLA.

“My thoughts and prayers – and those of my entire staff – are with those affected by today’s tragic events at UCLA.

Santa Monicans will cast their vote for or against the LUVE initiative November 8, the Residocracy-backed initiative certified by the County Registrar-Recorder today.

In anticipation of a larger than normal influx of visitors to Santa Monica this Memorial Day weekend, traffic officers and city staff were tasked with directing traffic at busy intersections and in and out of parking structures to help keep streets downtown clear of gridlock.

Two people were killed today in a shooting at UCLA, prompting a university-wide lockdown, that has just been lifted, as police swarmed the Westwood campus in search of a possible shooter amid the possibility the deaths may have been the result of a murder-suicide.

This summer, babies, kids and teens are invited to the Santa Monica Public Library to read,jump, dance, move, create, and earn prizes for the amount of time they spend reading (or being read to).