CITY HALL — Restaurants may see their rents rise on outdoor dining facilities in two years after the City Council voted to increase rent on city sidewalks to bring them in line with improved property values.
SM BEACH — While Hollywood was recovering from an Oscars hangover, Santa Monica’s movers and shakers were drinking champagne and enjoying the sun at the Annenberg Community Beach House on Monday, celebrating the more than 50 accolades earned over the last year by businesses and organizations within
Dear EarthTalk: Isn’t it a waste that we buy water in plastic bottles when it is basically free out of our taps? Even health food stores, which should know better, sell it like crazy.
SM-UCLA — As the last game of league play approached, Santa Monica High School’s boys’ basketball team found itself missing one of its starting players, point guard Jeremiah Shevlin.
The numbers are in and once again city employees did their part to help local families in need. The Big Blue Bus, which spearheaded the 15th annual food drive competition between city departments, announced this week that a total of 29,001 pounds of canned goods and other non-perishable food items w
CITY HALL — Santa Monicans, have no fear — your City Council members aren’t breaking your bank with unearned salaries. According to compensation information posted to the smgov.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — School nurses will be working overtime to examine the medical records of almost 5,000 students to find out whether or not each has received a required whooping cough vaccine before the start of the next school year.
WEST L.A. — City staff and notables celebrated the opening of the Santa Monica Water Treatment plant Thursday with an ambitious new goal — to make Santa Monica self-sufficient for water by 2020.
CITY HALL — The City Council gave the green light to a study that represents the first step in a process to determine the future of the Santa Monica Airport in 2015 after its agreement with the federal government expires.
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.
PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITY — The Santa Monica Police Department issued an advisory Thursday that a man convicted of committing lewd acts with minors has been seen in the area.
CITY HALL — City Manager Rod Gould publicly acknowledged Tuesday that the Santa Monica Police Department mishandled the investigation of school board member Oscar de la Torre, and committed to a list of reforms meant to improve procedures within the agency.
