The jury returned Friday morning, October 20, and convicted George Russell Weller, 89, on 10 felony counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence in the criminal trial arising out of the July 2003 Santa Monica […]

Santa Monica launched its Green Business Certification Program on Wednesday, October 25.  This is a collaborative project of the City of Santa Monica, Chamber of Commerce, Convention & Visitors Bureau and Sustainable Works to certify […]

Four shootings in the course of one week prompted Santa Monica Police Chief James T. Butts, Jr. on Sunday to commit “an overwhelming police presence” so that “[t]he cycle of violence that has developed over […]

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday, May 30, voted 8-5 to reject Councilmember Rosendahl’s motion to direct the City Planning Department to record the conditions of the tentative tract map for the planned development […]

A bill now pending in the California State Assembly to require Santa Monica Airport to record operation times for certain stages of taxi/idle, take offs and landings comes to the Assembly floor in Sacramento this […]

Santa Monica Police Chief James T. Butts, Jr., who has served the City in that capacity for 15 years, announced his retirement from the department. In a May 24 memorandum to “All Personnel,” the Chief […]

The Fairmont Miramar Hotel at Wilshire Blvd. and Ocean Ave. has appointed Jean-Claude Plihon as executive chef to oversee culinary operations at the property’s restaurant venues and 25,000 square feet of banquet space. Plihon is […]

The potentially historic mediation sessions concerning the future of Lincoln Place – a 35-acre apartment complex in Venice built in 1950 in an open, garden-like setting – have ended without an agreement among the parties, […]

Nancy Aossey, President & CEO of International Medical Corps (IMC), a Santa Monica-based global humanitarian aid organization, was named non-profit CEO of the Year by the “Women Making a Difference” program of the Los Angeles […]

By Eugene Pidgeon I have never been one for crowds. Perhaps this is because as a full grown adult male… my world dead ends at exactly 51 inches. That is, 4 feet 3 inches. In […]