July 14, 2025 -- Federal agents on Thursday arrested a resident of Santa Monica and Tehran at LAX for illegally exporting electronic equipment to Iran's government, according the U.S. Justice ...

The Santa Monica attack took place on April 4, when Marbra allegedly assaulted a 52-year-old woman on the Strand bike path on ...

SB 79, which is backed by the City Council, was approved 9 to 1 by the Housing Committee on Thursday after clearing the Senate last month. It now heads to the Assembly Local Government Committee.

Of the 56 people referred to the new SaMo Bridge program by police between its opening on May 12 to June 21, a total of 37 individuals "were immediately and successfully connected to housing and ...

The report released July 1 found that the annual Point-in-Time (PIT) counts taken by RAND last year in Venice, Hollywood and LA Skid Row differed widely from those taken by LAHSA after the agency took ...

July 10, 2025 -- The Santa Monica Police Department on Wednesday announced it has launched a "modern, userfocused" website to recruit new officers as vacancies reach a historic high.

July 10, 2025 -- The City Council on Tuesday voted 6 to 1 to move ahead with a plan to convert 192 acres of airport land into a "Great Park" that excludes, and does not immediately study, housing.

The Council will pick a "preferred" scenario for the 197-acres of open land after the airport closes at the end of 2028 -- one scenario includes no housing, another adds "some housing" at the edges of ...

It was 30 years ago -- 1995 -- when a kid named Lou Brancaccio (that's me), who grew up in Chicago, found his way to the end of Route 66. There were stops along the way of course: A journalism degree ...

August 29, 2014 -- The Santa Monica City Council approved approximately $1.2 million in expenditures Tuesday to maintain city buses, perform software maintenance on City computers and pay for ...

May 8-- In the second of a two-part interview with The Lookout, City Council member Bobby Shriver discusses his biggest disappointments during his two-and-a-half years in office, what he would do ...