DOWNTOWN — It was a good year for Santa Monica-based CIF-Southern Section Division 7 teams. New Roads and Pacifica Christian’s baseball teams placed four players on the All-CIF-SS Division 7 first team and one on the second, it was announced on Monday.
The trade alliance OCeanfront, comprised of the four Orange County coastal communities of Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Dana Point, wants to make sure you know that Orange County is the ultimate ocean getaway with 42 miles of pristine coast and just a gas-friendly hour’s drive fr
CITY HALL — Just in time for summer, patrons of several Santa Monica Place restaurants will get to sip cocktails outdoors until 1:30 a.m. rather than moving indoors before the clock strikes midnight.
NOMA — What if Santa Monica planted a tree, but nobody wanted it? The seemingly unlikely scenario reared its head in this tree-hugging city when officials told residents of Georgina and Marguerita avenues that dying Canary Island date palms would be replaced with California native sycamore trees.
When I served as an Army medic in Vietnam, I often saw a 19-year-old solider whose job was to spray an herbicide called Agent Orange on anything green inside my base.
It was revealed last week that Prince William and his fiancée, Kate Middleton, have officially registered for their wedding, which is later this month.
CITY HALL — City officials are defending a decision to put several parking meters on Ocean Avenue out of commission for nearly a week over the holidays — a move one man says cost City Hall revenue while inappropriately aiding a religious group that had put up nativity scene displays near the spaces.
LOS ANGELES — California braced Wednesday for a blast of cold air and potentially damaging winds in the aftermath of a winter storm that dumped more rain and snow on the soggy state but failed to trigger significant new mudflows.
NOMA — Santa Monica is known around the world as a popular tourist destination, but has its reputation reached outer space? Residents in Santa Monica and the Westside have reported seeing strange lights in the night sky on at least two occasions this month, the unidentified flying objects disappeari
NOMA — I was 10 years old in 1941 and did not understand the implications of an impending world war. My father, Louis Dreller, was a naval officer stationed on the USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser, which was the flagship for the Pacific fleet.
Do you really believe that high school football programs are beneficial for most children? Today the number of seats available for your child at a university are shrinking rapidly, and the time when “C’s get degrees” is over.
SMMUSD HDQTRS — African American students in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District did worse on state standardized tests this year compared with 2009, despite significant improvements by the overall student body on the exams.
