MID-CITY — Paula Minardi could hardly believe her eyes. There, on the 1300 block of Santa Monica Boulevard between Stanford and Yale streets, was a coyote.
DOWNTOWN — Amazing what a pair of imaginary friends can inspire. Onny and Oboe, the make-believe buddies of a little girl in failing health have, years later, become the inspiration for one man’s trek across the country to raise awareness for organ donation.
CLOVERFIELD BLVD. — After 35 years in Santa Monica, Liberty Hill is packing up and moving out. The foundation, which has invested more than $40 million in grassroots community organizing in Los Angeles County, plans to move in July to a location on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, according to a p
Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that only a handful of outdated coal-burning power plants generate a sizable amount of the mercury pollution generated in the United States? If so, is anything being done to clean these sites up or shut them down? — Frank Pearson, Wichita, Kan.
Barricades were placed Friday on a 1/2-mile stretch of southbound Pacific Coast Highway, as a summer-long wastewater diversion project begins. The key beach road is constricted so crews can bury 3,100 feet of new pipe at the foot of Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — For this year only, seniors and eighth graders will get the chance to attend graduation and other end-of-the-year events despite violating the district’s controlled substance policy.
ST. MONICA — Few people have the same connection to St. Monica’s Catholic Church as Lydia Saenz. She was baptized there, received her first communion there and went through the rite of confirmation at the campus on the corner of Seventh Street and California Avenue.
BERGAMOT STATION — U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan joined city officials for a tour of Bergamot Station Thursday morning to get a first-hand look at the future home of the Expo Light Rail station and mixed-use housing development.
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.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — After nearly two years of work, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District officials and members of the Special Education District Advisory Committee completed their magnum opus — an analysis of the past decade of income and spending on special education, district wide.
SMO — A decade and $1.5 million in outside attorney fees later, City Hall will not challenge a federal appeals court decision to uphold a Federal Aviation Administration ruling barring City Hall from enforcing a ban passed in 2008 prohibiting class C and D jets from landing at Santa Monica Airport.
LOS ANGELES — A seafood dealer who illegally sold whale meat to Santa Monica sushi restaurant The Hump has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. City News Service says 50-year-old Ginichi Ohira of Gardena entered the plea Tuesday in Los Angeles to a count of knowingly selling a marine mammal produ
