SMO ¬ó The Federal Aviation Administration is staying out of the escalating argument about a proposal to pay flight schools at Santa Monica Airport to conduct some training flights elsewhere.
CITY HALL ¬ó Local governments throughout Southern California are taking a stand against a proposal to pay Santa Monica flight schools to take some of their training flights to other airports.
CITY HALL – The City Council, because of a technicality, put off a vote Tuesday on whether or not to create a program to pay SMO flight schools to do training at other airports.
Biking up and down the strand is a way of life here in Santa Monica. Meeting up with friends for drinks to watch the NBA Finals in neighboring Venice, well that’s just a bonus.
CITYWIDE — Some communities suffer from a lack of information. Santa Monica may have too much. Two community organizations and one outside lobbying group each released statistics in recent months attempting to put hard numbers to one of the Westside’s most controversial questions: How many people
SANTA ANA, Calif. ¬ó Three people in Southern California have been charged with running a prostitution ring that recruited women from Latvia and Russia to work in the sex trade in Los Angeles and Orange County, federal authorities said Tuesday.
Editor’s note: Longtime Santa Monican Charles Andrews is traveling across Europe in a camper van for one year, with his family. What you observe and what you experience when traveling depends a lot on your mode of travel.
Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing series that tracks the city’s expenditures appearing on upcoming Santa Monica City Council consent agendas.
AIRPORT COURTHOUSE — A 32-year-old Santa Monica man pleaded no contest Wednesday to two counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14 as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors, authorities said.
City Hall will be hosting the 74th annual Memorial Day observance at Woodlawn Cemetery on Monday, featuring patriotic songs, speeches about Santa Monica’s past and a DC-3 flyover.
Every year, students in Lincoln Middle School’s seventh grade life science class take a field trip to the Los Angeles Zoo. They’re lucky to have a teacher like Bob Seymour.
PICO BLVD — Just over 6.7 million people visited Santa Monica in 2011 and pumped a record $1.39 billion into the local economy, a 20 percent increase in spending over 2009, according to a report released Wednesday by the Santa Monica Convention & Visitors Bureau.
