Twenty years of protests, evictions, and litigation came to an end on May 26, when the Los Angeles City Council approved the settlement of a lawsuit between the City and the owner of the Lincoln […]

With all the studies, rallies, litigation, and frustration, the Santa Monica Airport has been pushed into the limelight with a lot of press and even more accusations. The community is now left to sift through […]

After taking off from Santa Monica Airport, authorities in Pontiac, Ill. intercepted a small airplane containing 340 pounds of marijuana on May 3. The pilot in the incident, Alan Luster, a 46-year-old male from Marietta, […]

Sara Bayles always loved the beach, although she grew up in non-beach areas on the East Coast. She moved to California six years ago, married a man who taught marine biology at SMC, and moved […]

This story has been updated with a more comprehensive report which can be viewed by clicking HERE Residents in Sunset Park awoke to the sound of gunfire early Tuesday morning by an incident that left […]

Residents in Sunset Park awoke to the sound of gunfire in the early morning hours of May 18. The incident resulted in one Santa Monica Police officer shot and a nearly four-hour search for the […]

At its April 27 meeting, the City Council approved the designs of two major capital projects, which stand to drastically improve the City’s bikability. The first project will give Ocean Park Boulevard an environmentally friendly, […]

Don’t expect any of them to admit it, but it turns out they were wrong – all those politicians who whined for many years that high taxes and lousy business conditions were pushing Californians to […]