Barricades were placed Friday on a 1/2-mile stretch of southbound Pacific Coast Highway, as a summer-long wastewater diversion project begins. The key beach road is constricted so crews can bury 3,100 feet of new pipe at the foot of Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica.
While we find no fault with the City Council’s decision roughly four months ago to not challenge a federal court’s ruling barring City Hall from enforcing a ban on C and D jets at Santa Monica Airport, the Daily Press is miffed that we had to find out about the decision this week from residents and
SMO — A decade and $1.5 million in outside attorney fees later, City Hall will not challenge a federal appeals court decision to uphold a Federal Aviation Administration ruling barring City Hall from enforcing a ban passed in 2008 prohibiting class C and D jets from landing at Santa Monica Airport.
LOS ANGELES — A seafood dealer who illegally sold whale meat to Santa Monica sushi restaurant The Hump has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. City News Service says 50-year-old Ginichi Ohira of Gardena entered the plea Tuesday in Los Angeles to a count of knowingly selling a marine mammal produ
CITY HALL — If city officials get their way, harnessing green energy will be a little bit easier on the wallet. Solar energy has long been discussed as a strong candidate for renewable energy because by the time the sun is no longer there to produce it, we won’t be either.
DOWNTOWN L.A. — A Gardena seafood dealer who sold endangered whale meat to The Hump in Santa Monica and other sushi restaurants has yet to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge as part of a deal with prosecutors.
DOWNTOWN L.A. — A Gardena seafood dealer who imported endangered whale meat from Tokyo and sold it to Santa Monica eatery The Hump and other sushi restaurants in the Southland will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge, according to reports.
SUNSET PARK — Today, Miyoung Michelle Suh, a chef-instructor at the Art Institute of California in Santa Monica, is in South Korea, en route to Kajikistan to support members of her church as they perform mission work in the former Soviet bloc country.
SMO — Ultrafine particulates and black carbon levels in the neighborhood surrounding the Santa Monica Airport dropped significantly during a four-day period in 2010 when all airport activities were suspended for repaving, according to a new study by the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
CITY HALL — Overall traffic at Santa Monica Airport may be down, but neighbors are still riled about noise and they may have a point, according to a consultant who spoke at Monday night’s Airport Commission meeting.
CITYWIDE — Santa Monicans gave an overwhelming thumbs up to the city by the sea, awarding it an A-grade as a good place to live as well as high marks on providing critical city services including emergency response, public safety and environmental responsibility.
SMO — Residents living in Venice and Mar Vista gathered at the eastern edge of the Santa Monica Airport on Friday to stage an Earth Day rally against the use of leaded fuel by owners of propeller planes that fly over homes nearby.
