On March 28, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Traci Park presented a $25,000 contribution to West Coast Care (WCC) to help with its family reunification work – an often overlooked but
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes a lot of Easter events, Earth Day events, and much more!
Locals’ Night at the
The Santa Monica City Council tabled a request to support two state housing bills after a majority of councilmembers expressed concerns about endorsing the legislation without further analysis.
Councilmembers Jesse
LOCAL TREASURES I keep recommending. Are you missing out on so much, in your own backyard?
LIBRARY GIRL, the monthly spoken word performance in its 16th year at the RUSKIN
A longtime Pacific Palisades resident is raising concerns about what he sees as a slow and uneven post-fire recovery, sounding the alarm on a market he believes is being stifled
A Los Angeles landlord was recorded on video in a heated confrontation with tenants in January, following months of dispute over a property in Winnetka, with both sides presenting different
The spiraling cost of housing in California has affected virtually every facet of life.
California has the nation’s largest unsheltered homeless population and among the highest rates of cost-burdened
After George Floyd, there was an obligation in some progressive circles to prove you were sufficiently against racism by defining yourself as anti-racist. Now it’s President Donald Trump’s
Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed new legislation that will provide more than $170 million in state funding to help prevent wildfires while signing an order aimed at speeding up the
A consumer advocacy group filed a lawsuit this week to block insurers from charging California customers for $500 million in costs associated with the deadly Los Angeles fires.
California'
By now we’ve all heard the news that Santa Monica will not be the venue for beach volleyball in the 2028 Summer Olympics. We learned this week that the
The long closed Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) will reopen in the foreseeable future with Governor Gavin Newsom saying traffic should flow again by the end of May.
The new opening
