DOWNTOWN — Tens of thousands of people are expected to flock to Downtown Santa Monica Sunday for the L.A. Marathon and city officials want to remind them that if they can walk, bike or take public transit that would be best.
Q: Spring break is right around the corner. I heard several reports from the news media indicating Frisbee and ball throwing was being banned completely on all Los Angeles County beaches.
CITYWIDE — In August 2011, the Santa Monica Housing Authority opened up its affordable housing waiting list for two days. In under 35 hours, 33,000 applications rushed in from people from Santa Monica and other localities seeking access to a variety of subsidized housing programs available in the ci
Crime Watch is a weekly series culled from reports provided by the Santa Monica Police Department. These are arrests only. All parties are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
SAN FRANCISCO — A late winter storm that brought heavy rain and winds to Central and Northern California is expected to arrive in the Los Angeles area late tonight.
OCEAN AVE — The Honda L.A. Marathon will descend on Santa Monica again this weekend, and with it a deluge of people, road closures and cold, rainy conditions.
Environmental watchdog Heal the Bay wants people to stay green after St. Patrick’s Day by following a few simple steps. Here are their suggestions: • Use a designated driver: When you carpool or take public transit to your local pub you reduce harmful emissions that foul the environment.
EASTSIDE — When a medical marijuana patient walks into a dispensary to purchase some pot, they are most likely not going to speak with a certified pharmacist, but rather a 20-something with glossy, blood-shot eyes who probably got high hours or minutes before.
ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY — As almost any advice columnist will tell you, communication and transparency are critical to a functional relationship, particularly when one or both partners has control of the family purse strings.
ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY — Sometimes, it’s nice not to be the trailblazer. Members of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District community will gather Saturday morning at Roosevelt Elementary School to hear another side of the districtwide fundraising debate — how other districts made it work.
March 11 marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Because millions of tons of debris flooded into the sea from this catastrophic event, it’s understandable that people are concerned about tsunami-related material washing onto Southern California beaches.
OCEAN AVE — Between 5 p.m. and 4 a.m., anyone can take a mental trip to China to watch one of four giant pandas munch on bamboo or tussle with its siblings from its home in the Ya’an Panda Base, part of the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda.
