Southern California Edison today restored power to more than 900 Santa Monica customers after a power surge set off an explosion in an underground vault, triggering an outage. Edison’s website indicated that as of 3 […]

Sunset Boulevard was reopened today, six days after being closed down by a 20-million-gallon flood that resulted from a water main rupture and also inundated parts of the UCLA campus. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the […]

As registration moves along at a brisk pace for SMC Community Education’s hearty offerings in the Fall Session – which begins Sept. 2 – the program is giving a 10 percent discount on registration for […]

Though not quite the cliché smoke-filled room of Chicago Blackstone Hotel where nominations for public office were secretly made, Santa Monica’s most recognized political party will have to resort to a meeting of its steering […]

A 46-year-old man was killed and six other people were injured in a two-car crash today on the Santa Monica (10) Freeway in the Palms area of West Los Angeles. The crash occurred at 2:55 […]

Guardians Of The Galaxy was master of its domain this weekend, with an estimated $94 million in North American box offices. Lucy was in second place in its second week of showings, with an estimated […]

Repairs are complete and repaving will start today on Sunset Boulevard, where an antiquated cast-iron main ruptured and caused extensive flooding in parts of Westwood last week. Gravel surrounding the pipes has “passed a major […]

A two-car crash in Benedict Canyon this morning injured seven people, four of them critically, a Los Angeles Fire Department official said. The crash occurred at 2:19 a.m. at 1300 North Benedict Canyon Drive, said […]

Rain around the Los Angeles area due to monsoonal moisture caused power lines to arc, setting utility poles on fire resulting in power outages around the area, officials said today. Most of the utility pole […]

A string of “peeping tom” incidents at UCLA and surrounding apartments in Westwood may have ended with the arrest of a 47-year-old man by UCLA police, it was reported Saturday. University police officers arrested Christopher […]