DOWNTOWN — The widow of a 66-year-old man who was struck by a car and killed while he was walking in a Santa Monica crosswalk last month is calling on City Hall to do more to promote pedestrian safety.
The Santa Monica Public Library is calling for entries for the fifth annual Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. The Green Prize is sponsored by the Santa Monica Public Library and City Hall’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment.
WILMONT — Santa Monica police closed down a portion of Wilshire Boulevard and surrounding streets near the Third Street Promenade Friday morning after finding a bomb that turned out to be a movie prop.
CITY HALL — By any measure, Councilman Kevin McKeown’s latest proposal to provide the public with greater access to officials’ campaign disclosure records was a modest one.
BROAD STAGE — While California’s economy is far from golden as it struggles to recover from one of the worst recessions in the nation’s history, Santa Monica is in an enviable position, moving forward with key public and private developments and infrastructure projects that will create jobs, attract
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.
CIVIC CENTER — Roaming the streets of Santa Monica at 2 a.m. probably isn’t what most people envision when they think of public service. But that’s how about 170 volunteers paid their dues this week, spanning out across the city’s eight square miles beginning just after midnight on Wednesday.
CITY HALL — More real estate projects will now be subject to the City Council’s approval after the body on Tuesday approved a temporary zoning law that requires a greater level of public scrutiny for planned buildings 32 feet and higher.
SAMOHI — Emotions ran high during a meeting here Tuesday addressing the Santa Monica High School community in the wake of the tragic suicide of freshman Matthew Mezza.
Over 550 bowlers representing various businesses, social service agencies and local government will compete Feb. 4 SuperBowl-A-Thon XV, a fundraiser benefiting the Westside Shelter & Hunger Coalition.
CITY HALL — The City Council on Tuesday fulfilled a long-delayed promise by voting to ban Santa Monica retailers from giving out free single-use plastic bags at the cash register — a move environmentalists say will encourage people to bring reusable bags to the store and reduce litter and carbon emi
DOWNTOWN — What does the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce have in common with Fox News host Glenn Beck? Both, it turns out, have been sponsored by the company Goldline International, a locally-based seller of gold coins that is under investigation by the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office and count
