SMO — Two Los Angeles City Council members upped the ante in opposition to the Santa Monica Airport Wednesday by moving to make it official policy to pursue a change in the departure path at the airport as well as close six flight schools.
THOUSAND OAKS — Authorities say a small plane that departed from Santa Monica Airport has gone down in a Thousand Oaks landfill injuring two people on board.
DOWNTOWN — Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose will get his day in court, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled Thursday. Rose is suing Santa Monica-based video game giant Activision Blizzard Inc.
SM BAY — Santa Monica’s Heal the Bay is looking for volunteers who don’t mind the smell of a few million dead sardines. With the massive fish kill in Redondo’s King Harbor earlier this week, the most pressing issue now is the clean-up, officials with the environmental watchdog said Wednesday.
There are not many places like Santa Monica. It’s both an international destination and a sleepy beach town. It’s a haven for innovation and invention while also proudly keeping true to its small-town roots.
“In Mother Words” is a series of 20 vignettes about motherhood written by 14 authors and performed by three superb actresses and one excellent actor. The sketches are funny, poignant, spirited, instructive, often predictable, and sometimes overly gooey.
CARSON — Kalaria Obasi led all scorers with 15 points as Santa Monica High School’s girls’ basketball team defeated Carson, 59-43, in the first round of the CIF Division 1 playoffs Tuesday.
CITY HALL — Parking in Santa Monica will get a facelift between now and 2014 with several major structures going off-line, the creation of temporary parking facilities throughout town and a slew of incentives to encourage locals to park further from Downtown.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District officials and Malibu-area parents are working together to strengthen bonds of communication between the two groups, which have found themselves at odds in recent years.
While skirmishes in Libya and uncertainty in the Middle East are nice cover for outrageous gasoline prices, the fact is the same old suspects are making a killing from sky-high gas prices approaching $4 per gallon in California: big oil companies and greedy speculators.
My husband isn’t a stereotypical guy’s guy. Unlike some men, Rick doesn’t personally change the oil in our car. In fact, he never personally notices when anything’s even wrong with the car (although I suspect if black smoke were pouring out from under the hood or if the car itself disappeared, it mi
CITYWIDE — Today marks the official start-date of Santa Monica’s one-use bag ban, although enforcement will not begin until Sept. 1. After that date, a 10-cent fee will be placed on each bag used.
