CITY HALL — Over six months after voters approved a half-cent sales tax, City Hall approved a deal with the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District to split the revenues in exchange for access to high school sports facilities.
MID-CITY — After years of fighting with management for the right to unionize, nurses at Saint John’s Health Center on Thursday voted in favor of joining the California Nurses Association, a move they hope will lead to better pay, benefits and improvements in patient care.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — Santa Monica police officers, with the help of the Los Angeles Police Department, apprehended three men believed responsible for a string of street robberies that occurred in Santa Monica, West Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, authorities said Thursday.
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 — As communities in Missouri, Alabama and abroad are torn apart by natural and manmade disasters of untold proportion, Santa Monicans have to ask themselves a serious question: Are we ready? If you believe the movies, Santa Monica seems likely to be destroyed by alien attack, which no one
CITY HALL — If city officials get their way, harnessing green energy will be a little bit easier on the wallet. Solar energy has long been discussed as a strong candidate for renewable energy because by the time the sun is no longer there to produce it, we won’t be either.
CITY HALL — In an attempt to protect redevelopment money from a potential state raid, the City Council voted to commit approximately $100 million to construction projects at its budget meeting Tuesday night.
The Public Technology Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have recently recognized City Hall as a leader in the application of Web 2.0 technologies and social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
DOWNTOWN L.A. — Family members of Michael and Anthony Juarez, brothers who were brutally shot and killed more than a decade ago while visiting a cousin’s clothing store in Santa Monica, will have a chance next month to confront one of two gang members found guilty of the murders.
Grand marshals for the fifth annual Fourth of July parade on Main Street will be Santa Monica’s lifeguards, led by Capt. Angus Alexander, a 31-year veteran who oversees operations at the Central Section Lifeguard Headquarters, located just south of the Santa Monica Pier.
SMC — A restaurateur and a math professor are recipients of the 2011 Alumni Recognition Awards issued by the Santa Monica College Foundation, it was announced last week.
SM PIER — The Santa Monica Pier ditched its dunce cap and received an A-grade Wednesday from environmental watchdog Heal the Bay for its water quality, reflecting nearly $2 million in investments from City Hall to clean up the water around the iconic attraction.
