In a 5 to 2 vote, the Council approved Transportation staff's recommendation that the program kick in with the westbound bus-only lane on Broadway from 5th Street to Ocean Avenue, where signage and ...

June 12, 2025 -- Beach Boys leader and composer Brian Wilson, a supreme genius of popular music whose death was announced by his family Wednesday, had long ties to Santa Monica.

The City's Water and Wastewater Enterprise Funds pay for maintaining services for 93,000 residents and 2,700 businesses and institutions that make up the City’s more than 18,000 water accounts.

LA Mode 2025 -- which takes place at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 20, in the Core Performance Center (CPC) Courtyard on the SMC Main Campus -- feature 25 global collections, reflecting each designer’s ...

"Based on her interactions, (Aguiñiga) created a record of their labor through the individual imprints of wrenches, saws, ...

June 9, 2025 -- After a 40-year ban, new large billboards could soon return to Santa Monica using digital display screens ...

June 10, 2025 -- The fallout from federal immigration enforcement operations that have triggered protests and rioting in Los Angeles reached Santa Monica Monday, where false rumors of a local ...

June 9, 2025 -- The City Council on Tuesday is expected to raise water rates over the next five years to keep the Santa Monica's water and sewer services afloat.

May 23, 2025 -- The Santa Monica Pier is the second most polluted beach on the West Coast, topped only by Mexico's Playa Blanca, a beach contaminated by untreated sewage from the Tijuana region, ...

Karen Melikyan, a 41-year-old male resident of the Hollywood area, was charged by the LA County District Attorney with attempted second degree robbery and conspiracy to commit a crime and, if ...

May 20, 2025 -- The Big Blue Bus will increase its fares starting in August, with a second round of increases coming in the summer of 2027. The fare hikes approved by the City Council last Tuesday ...

May 19, 2025 -- A coordinated robbery at a closed store on the Third Street Promenade Sunday night turned deadly when one of the two suspects attacked the owner and was fatally shot. Santa Monica ...