For many years the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District has been concerned with improving its communications both internally and to the community. Last spring, the School District hired a consultant to audit the School District’s […]

Two new Planning Commissioners have been appointed by the Santa Monica City Council in the last six months. Ted Winterer began his term in May by filling the seat vacated when Gleam Davis was appointed […]

Nearly 15 years in the making, Saint John’s Health Center announced the completion of its state-of-the-art replacement hospital with the upcoming opening of the 285,000-square-foot Howard Keck Center. Built from the patient’s perspective, the New […]

Santa Monica Place (SMP) is being remodeled and one of the goals of its owner, the Macerich Corporation, is to have the mall be LEED certified by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). LEED, which […]

Santa Monica proposes to raise downtown parking rates, and it’s all over the news in the Southland – nationally, in fact, when one looks at the Web and the blogs. If, as writer Ron Koslow […]

“I Have Something To Show You!” Wednesday, October 14, 9:51 a.m. Officers were called to the AM-PM store at the 300 block of Pico Boulevard to investigate a report of an incident. When the officers […]

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) Expo Line light rail project is moving closer to Santa Monica, with Phase 1 in progress and Phase 2’s Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) being firmed up. At the latest […]

It’s a typical morning for a recording of this week’s KCRW show Left, Right, and Center. Producer Sarah Spitz finally contacts Bob Scheer. He’ll be doing the show remote from San Francisco today. Tony Blankely […]

Wednesday, October 21, Santa Monica Police Chief Timothy Jackman, along with other detectives, and Los Angeles County District Attorney Hardcore Gang Division member, Alva Lin, held a press conference at The Santa Monica Public Library […]

Pico Boulevard opened its doors, both literally and figuratively, on Saturday, October 17, for the 4th annual Pico Art Walk and Car Show. From the Civic Auditorium at Main Street on the west to a […]