Santa Monica is emerging as a top spring break destination for Los Angeles-area families this year, with new Airbnb data showing a significant uptick in searches for short-term rental stays
Santa Monica resident Kaitlyn Lee is encouraging Californians to donate to childhood cancer research by checking a box on their state tax returns this season.
Lee, executive director of the
Drivers in the Los Angeles area are facing a sharp and swift spike at the pump, with gasoline prices jumping more than 53 cents per gallon in just seven days
With our membership gains over the past year, the Santa Monica Pacific Palisades Lions have been holding what we call “craft talks,” where new members share a little about themselves.
The Santa Monica Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying a man connected to a sexual battery investigation.
Authorities released a photograph of the suspect
Hope for the Unhoused
Patricia Kusaba knows how easily stability can unravel — and how hard it can be to ask for help when it does. One of the first graduates
Rental prices in Santa Monica fell sharply in March, dropping 2.3% in a single month as the city recorded the steepest annual rent decline in the Los Angeles metropolitan
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes a Montana Ave. shopping event, the Intelligentsia drive-thru opening, International Women’s Month honors, Padel
Kamasi Washington will headline the inaugural Santa Monica International Jazz Festival, a nine-day event running May 1–9, 2026, presented by BroadStage, SM Festivals and the City of Santa Monica.
It started with cardboard keychains and a dream.Aria Mendoza, 11, wanted a 3D printer after spotting articulated animal designs on Pinterest, but she didn't have the money
When Sarah Gwilliam lost her mother as a young adult, she found herself navigating a kind of pain that the world around her seemed reluctant to acknowledge. Years later, after
SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes Frieze Art Fair, The 11th Annual Greens Festival, the opening of the city's