MID-CITY — Local cancer research and treatment center Premiere Oncology will hold an event Saturday, calling on its patients and cancer survivors to share personal stories to raise money for research and to help subsidize some treatments offered at the facility.
LOS ANGELES — California regulators are cracking down on a company at the center of a scandal over hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing campaign funds.
DOWNTOWN — With a flourish of gold-painted shovels, a gaggle of city, county and state officials broke ground on the final stop of the Exposition Light Rail Line, which should be coming to Santa Monica in 2015.
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
REDONDO BEACH — A pod of rare blue whales has been thrilling kayakers, boaters and tourists off the Southern California coast. The world’s largest mammals have been breaching for the past week off Redondo Beach.
Dear EarthTalk Pharmaceuticals were in the news again recently, how they are polluting water and raising a host of health issues because we dispose of them both unused and used through body waste elimination.
LOS ANGELES — A report of a suspicious backpack that sent an explosives team to a Los Angeles bus has ended with a man accused of making terrorist threats and possessing a hoax device.
MID-CITY — The brass of the UCLA Medical System convened Friday to dedicate its newest state-of-the-art hospital in Santa Monica, closing the books on a project 16 years in the making.
CITYWIDE — Within the last two weeks, members of the Santa Monica community have received lengthy, anonymous phone calls from polling companies asking their opinions on politics and the Santa Monica Airport, but no one seems to know who is behind the effort.
CITYWIDE — When commercial airliners smashed into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and the Pennsylvania countryside on Sept. 11, 2001, Santa Monicans responded.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — The Board of Education tried to walk a fine line between leniency and excessive force as it weighed in on a draft revision of the substance abuse policy presented at its meeting Thursday.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Santa Monica police have ordered the 84-year-old woman ticketed for hitting Oscar-winner Reese Witherspoon in a crosswalk to head to the nearest DMV and retake her driver’s test.
