CITYWIDE — Santa Monica police officers will crack down on motorcycle-related traffic violations Sunday as part of their day-long Motorcycle Safety Enforcement Operation.
CITYWIDE — The Metropolitan Water District announced a 10 percent rate increase Tuesday, but that won’t have any impact on Santa Monicans, according to city officials.
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.
CITY HALL – Those who give fitness classes on the beach or in public parks have been put on notice. The City Council gave staff the go ahead to explore restricting fitness classes in public open spaces, uses which city officials say force other people out of the parks and beaches and can cause damag
CITY HALL — Timing is everything, particularly when you’re racing against the clock. The Landmarks Commission chose to put off filing an application to landmark the damaged “Chain Reaction” statue on the Civic Center lawn for one month out of concern that doing so would actually hurt the chances of
SMC — The panel tapped to review Santa Monica College officials’ response to student protests that left three students hospitalized is set to meet in coming weeks to begin assessing what officials could have done differently.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday there was never any indication that her former campaign treasurer was mismanaging her re-election account before the treasurer’s arrest last year in a widespread embezzlement case.
MID-CITY — Santa Monica police officers shut down several streets Tuesday afternoon as they hunted and eventually captured a man who allegedly struck his girlfriend as they argued inside a car.
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks City Hall’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
MAIN STREET — There’s a Mexican standoff taking place over the lawn in front of the California Heritage Museum. The Main Street Business Improvement Association and representatives of the Santa Monica-based museum are poised to begin negotiations over the disputed piece of property, which became a t
DOWNTOWN — A financial adviser accused of stealing roughly $500,000 from a Santa Monica artist and then stabbing him to death once the scheme was uncovered plead not guilty Monday to murder charges.
SUNSET PARK — Displacement. It’s the property that keeps boats, and people, floating in a body of water. It suggests that since two objects cannot exist in the same place at the same time, one will inevitably push the other out of the way.
