SM BAY — Santa Monica-based environmental watchdog Heal the Bay is calling on Southland residents to join the world’s largest single-day volunteer event — the 22nd annual Coastal Cleanup Day, scheduled for Sept.
LOS ANGELES — The National Weather Service has issued a high surf advisory for the coast of Southern California, warning of strong rip currents and breakers that can top more than 11 feet.
Another year, another Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for Santa Monica’s CityTV. It’s CityTV’s 11th Emmy win and the second time in a row the public access station won the Public Service Announcement (PSA) category.
Santa Monica City Councilman Terry O’Day is moving on. The environmental activist who has led Santa Monica-based Environment Now since 2003 has accepted a job with eVgo to help develop California’s electric car charging infrastructure.
DOWNTOWN — Some people strive to reduce the number of plastic bottles in landfills by arming themselves with a filter and a Nalgene. Others go clothes shopping.
SUNSET PARK — Parking Enforcement Officer Micah Mitchell came close to losing toes Tuesday morning as he helped a constant flow of cars navigate the narrow intersection at 20th and Pearl streets.
Public radio station KCRW-Santa Monica (89.9 FM) raised more money on Friday, Aug. 19 — the final day of its 2011 summer membership drive — than on any other day in the history of the station’s on-air fundraising efforts.
BARNARD WAY — In what a bicycle blogger called a clear case of road rage, a driver was arrested last week for allegedly driving his car into a cyclist riding on the 2600 block of Barnard Way.
CITYWIDE — Home prices may be relatively holding steady in Santa Monica, but it appears more buyers — and particularly sellers — are letting caution rule.
CITYWIDE — As of the start of school, several hundred Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District students will not have received the state-required vaccine against whooping cough.
SUNSET PARK — A small airplane crashed into an unoccupied home in the Sunset Park neighborhood Monday afternoon, injuring the pilot and a painter who was working on the house at the time of the accident.
SMC — Santa Monica College will be opening its doors Monday for the fall semester, and all Santa Monica public schools will open Tuesday. For residents in some areas, that means one thing: traffic.
