December 24, 2025
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The Santa Monica Pier extends from the city's beach.

Santa Monica Beach Evacuated For Tsunami:

Following a magnitude 8.9 earthquake that struck of northeast Japan, the pacific coast of the North American continent was under a Tsunami alert from Alaska to southern California, including Santa Monica on Friday morning. Locally, […]

Eileen Fogarty

Santa Monica’s Planning Director Moving On:

Eileen Fogarty, who has been the city’s director of planning and community development since 2006, has decided to move on, although her mark on the city by the sea will last long after she is […]

Tsunami Expected in Santa Monica, American Pacific Coast:

Following a magnitude 8.9 earthquake that struck of northeast Japan, the pacific coast of the North American continent is under a Tsunami alert from Alaska to southern California, including Santa Monica. Locally, NOAA’s National Weather […]

Reverse osmosis filtration membrane system at the new Santa Monica Water Treatment Plant located at 1228 South Bundy Drive.

City Pushes to Decrease Water Dependency:

Having the largest body of water in one’s own backyard is not a license to incessantly go to the well and take as much of the life-sustaining liquid as humanly possible. In hopes of becoming […]

Civic Center Parking Structure illuminated at night along Fourth Street in Santa Monica

Council Takes Parking Issues Head On:

If the Santa Monica City Council continues to approve programs and projects to draw visitor and tourist dollars to the local economy, it will have to find space for all those cars to park. With […]

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS/ONGOING EVENTS:

Academic Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (AFICE) is looking for individuals to work as Community Representatives, who will find host families for international students and will work with them and their families. Call Anne Ring, […]

EXHIBITS:

All of This and Nothing, art exhibit with more than 60 works by 14 artists, through April 24, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, 310.443.7016. California Artists in Mexico, 1928-1970, through May 1, 2011, […]