CITYWIDE City Hall has created a hotline customers can use to report on the performance of taxi cab companies recently awarded franchises by the City Council.
SM BEACH — The Santa Monica Pier and beach parking lots were closed for several hours Friday morning as residents and public safety officials braced for a possible tsunami following a magnitude 8.9 earthquake that struck Japan.
SM COURTHOUSE— Charlie Sheen brought his verbal war against Warner Bros. and the executive producer of “Two and a Half Men” to a Santa Monica courtroom on Thursday, filing a $100 million lawsuit seeking to recoup his salary and wages for the show’s cast and crew.
CITY HALL — Santa Monica seems to have a plan for everything, from bike paths to land use, and at its meeting Tuesday, the City Council approved the process for one more — a plan to make Santa Monica completely self-sufficient in water supply by 2020.
SMO — Two Los Angeles City Council members upped the ante in opposition to the Santa Monica Airport Wednesday by moving to make it official policy to pursue a change in the departure path at the airport as well as close six flight schools.
THOUSAND OAKS — Authorities say a small plane that departed from Santa Monica Airport has gone down in a Thousand Oaks landfill injuring two people on board.
DOWNTOWN — Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose will get his day in court, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled Thursday. Rose is suing Santa Monica-based video game giant Activision Blizzard Inc.
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.
SM BAY — Santa Monica’s Heal the Bay is looking for volunteers who don’t mind the smell of a few million dead sardines. With the massive fish kill in Redondo’s King Harbor earlier this week, the most pressing issue now is the clean-up, officials with the environmental watchdog said Wednesday.
It’s no secret that the benefits of gardening are many, from mental to physical to environmental. But in a city of 94,000 people in just 5 square miles, not everyone has room to grow.
There are not many places like Santa Monica. It’s both an international destination and a sleepy beach town. It’s a haven for innovation and invention while also proudly keeping true to its small-town roots.
Santa Monica’s Heal the Bay is looking for volunteers who don’t mind the smell of a few million dead sardines. With the massive fish kill in Redondo’s King Harbor earlier this week, the most pressing issue now is the clean-up, officials with the environmental watchdog said Wednesday.
