By Jennifer Taylor / Buy Local Santa Monica Committee Chair This holiday season, as you’re filling the stockings, lighting the candles, shopping for last minute gifts and preparing for festive meals, please buy local. When […]

Dear Editor, Santa Monica has a municipal ordinance requiring dog owners to carry a visible bag in order to pick up their dog poop, but not all dog owners do so. I am getting fed […]

Santa Monica College continued in 2011-12 to be the number one transfer campus to the prestigious University of California system, UC-Cal State systems combined, and USC, SMC announced Monday. SMC also was the leader in […]

Santa Monica temporary lane closures and delays are possible during daytime hours today through Friday, Dec. 21 in the following locations: • Olympic Blvd between 20th St. and Cloverfield Blvd. • Ocean Park Blvd between […]

A 45-year-old woman was arrested Thursday, Dec. 6 after attempting to injure a police officer using a shopping cart at the Albertson’s grocery store at 3105 Wilshire Boulevard. At 10:40 a.m. officers of the Santa […]

Very few initiatives pass through the Santa Monica City Council as smoothly as the proposal to establish the Santa Monica Tourism Marketing District (SMTMD). Yet, despite a process that began in October, the SMTMD is […]

Dear Editor, All my children were lucky to have escaped long ago from Santa Monica’s schools after grade 6. Why so? Well, stepping out of Von’s Pavilions supermarket this afternoon, I looked across the street […]

The CLARE Foundation opened a new facility for its Women’s Treatment Program Thursday at 844 Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica. With 40 beds, this newly renovated building will provide gender-responsive detoxification services, primary care, and […]