The City Council will take up an ordinance Tuesday that paves the way for large properties across the city to replace decorative grass areas that don't serve a recreational or community purpose with ...

Starting today, viewers can witness an event that has taken place in Santa Monica only a couple of times since 1941 -- the ...

The DEA and its partners will offer the opportunity to anonymously dispose of tablets, capsules, patches and other solid forms of prescription drugs "to prevent drug misuse and abuse," police ...

The two murder suicides took place some eight months after Jeremy Ferguson, the Director of Operations for Downtown Santa Monica, Inc (DTSM), and his wife, Mandy Zelinka, died on February 7 in what ...

The Realignment Plan -- which charts a path for the beach city's comeback -- revisits initiatives the previous City Council proposed and, in some cases, set in motion with few visible results, and ...

The item added Friday to the agenda's Consent Calendar asks the Council to authorize the City Manager to negotiate a lease with Santa Monica Brew Works for 256 Santa Monica Pier, which has been vacant ...

"The Aging and Disability Action Plan reflects the voices of the community members it’s meant to serve,” Aileen Reynolds, the Housing and Human Services Department Director, said in a statement. “It ...

Santa Monica's efforts to kick-start housing production by providing incentives to developers have failed to meet the City's goals or keep pace with comparable jurisdictions, according to a RAND ...

A 26-year-old Santa Monica man charged with kidnapping a UCLA student in March and raping another woman in Culver City last October was found dead by suicide Monday, one day before he was scheduled to ...

October 7, 2026 – Santa Monica, which has a longtime reputation as a difficult place to start a business, has been named a 'Most Business-Friendly City” finalist for the second year in a row, City ...