Bank of America’s downtown Santa Monica financial center is preparing to close as the city moves forward with redevelopment plans that will convert the site into affordable housing.
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A couple of weeks ago, Kamala Harris got the full New York Times treatment — a lengthy article speculating whether she would run for governor of California next year or prepare
Residents living near Waymo's charging facilities in Santa Monica are demanding immediate action over what they describe as persistent noise pollution that has disrupted their neighborhood and daily
By Arabella Joaquin
SMDP Intern
This weekend, a group of high school students will turn music into a movement.
Ten teen bands plan to take the stage for Battle of
In 2022, California made sweeping changes to its Medi-Cal program that reimagined what health care could look like for some of the state’s poorest and sickest residents by covering
Three months into President Donald Trump’s second term and the recovery from the firestorm that devastated Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom finds himself at a precarious juncture.
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Perhaps the only feature of Santa Monica life more predictable than the tides is perpetual confusion over the status of Malibu’s petition to carve out its own school district.
Legislation aimed at protecting mobile home park residents from displacement in the wake of natural disasters cleared a key hurdle Tuesday, passing out of the California Senate Housing Committee with
At the closing session of the 2025 Luskin Summit, focussing this year on equitable recovery and resilience, leaders from prominent philanthropic organizations joined grassroots advocates and community members to call
President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs are putting many California businesses, jobs and the state budget at risk. They’re affecting not only long-term relationships with trading partners, but
In a Hollywood courtroom, prosecutor and defense attorney both asserted their positions on how to best administer justice to the man appearing before them in shackled restraints. Judge Ronald Owen
Amid a post-2024 wave of Democratic interest in the burgeoning pro-development “abundance” movement, this seemed to be an easy year for California’s yes-in-my-backyard housing development activists.
Democratic leaders in
