The Santa Monica City Council has approved a new Entertainment Zone along the Third Street Promenade, allowing adults to consume alcoholic beverages outdoors with a phased implementation beginning next month.
Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered state agencies to clear homeless encampments from their properties last summer, holding up the California Department of Transportation as an example of how it should be
The Santa Monica City Council is poised to vote on an emergency ordinance establishing a permanent entertainment zone along the Third Street Promenade at its May 13 meeting, allowing for
One of the most controversial housing bills of the year has lived to be voted upon another day, but only by surviving the Legislative equivalent of two back-to-back prison breaks.
More than 50,000 Los Angeles County workers demanding higher pay walked picket lines again Tuesday, and the strike could mean closures or disruptions at libraries, healthcare clinics and administrative
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
The number of rent-controlled units in Santa Monica saw a small increase in 2024, marking the fifth consecutive year of growth in the city's protected housing stock, according
# Santa Monica to Consider Entertainment Zone Pilot on Third Street Promenade
The Santa Monica City Council will consider creating an entertainment zone on the Third Street Promenade at its April
In the shadow of the most devastating natural disaster in Los Angeles County history, regional leaders, UCLA faculty and policymakers gathered at the 2025 Luskin Summit this week with a
The Human Rights Watch Student Task Force (HRWSTF) club at Samohi backed the Cloverfield Commons group's plan for the Santa Monica Airport space on Apr. 15 at a
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
The City Council will consider a pair of construction related measures at its Tuesday meeting with the first looking to penalize nuisance property owners and the second adopting a new
