By Alejandro Lazo Big Oil faces mounting lawsuits as extreme weather worsens, with California leading efforts to make fossil fuel giants pay billions of dollars for the climate damage they have long denied.
Long-established surf and skate shop ZJ Boarding House on Main Street is set to close its doors permanently in April, just four years after it celebrated reopening. Tragically, this has nothing to do with any local issues,
Long-established surf and skate shop ZJ Boarding House on Main Street is set to close its doors permanently in April, just four years after it celebrated reopening. Tragically, this has nothing to do with any local issues,
Perhaps no state has more to lose than California in the federal budget proposal House Republicans passed this week. That spending plan sets up significant cuts to Medicaid, the health insurance ...
Dear Editor, Council Member Zwick, a new resident of Santa Monica who has no history here, has a strained view of what creates a great city and what can protect and save ours. For the City to partner
Parking Structure #3 was demolished to make way for "affordable housing," then it was decided to be a display of anime characters in domes and when that fell through a pickleball court was to be was to be built that disappeared into the either.
Ongoing tariff threats from Washington and potentially sweeping government job cuts have darkened consumers' mood and may be weighing on an otherwise mostly healthy economy. Data released Wednesday showed that consumers slashed their spending by the most since February 2021,
With just 22 months remaining in his governorship, Gavin Newsom knows that two interrelated promises he made to voters seven years ago — to erase or at least lessen the state’s chronic housing shortage and its very high rate of homelessness — will not happen before he departs.
If you ever want to know how Santa Monica City Council members feel about a certain issue, you’d be wise to look beyond the latest Council meeting agenda for answers. I say this because our new ...
I would like to share with your readers a gem I discovered through Santa Monica College Emeritus. Held at Virginia Park, the Spanish folk singing class did more than allow approximately 20 ...
“This past election cycle was the most expensive Council race in Santa Monica's history… We have in the past kept our individual contribution limits low as an attempt to provide greater access ...
If you want to learn more about Lions Club activities, or would like to hear our guest speaker, Matt Hall, Editor in Chief, Santa Monica Daily Press at our meeting on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 ...
Just before dawn, 10 people met at a parking lot shared by a laundromat and coffee shop in South Central Los Angeles on what has become a daily mission: Look for immigration officers and warn people of their presence to try to prevent arrests.
Ongoing tariff threats from Washington and potentially sweeping government job cuts have darkened consumers' mood and may be weighing on an otherwise mostly healthy economy. Data released Wednesday showed that consumers slashed their spending by the most since February 2021,
The owner of the legendary local fancy dress and wardrobe store Ursula’s Costumes at 2516 Wilshire Blvd, Ursula Boschet, has died. She would have been 91 in May. A spokesperson for the family confirmed that Boschet died Monday afternoon of pancreatic cancer surrounded by family at her home in Chatsworth.
March will be a month of creativity in Downtown Santa Monica, as locals and out of towners alike will be contributing their unique voices to the Santa Monica Playhouse. At the Playhouse from now through March 30 is the Binge Free Festival,
Samohi’s club “Team Marine” is calling for in-depth environmental testing of the ocean due to major health concerns after recent rains flushed ash and debris from the Palisades fire into the water. Founded in 2006 by Samohi teacher Benjamin Kay,
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday released government documents related to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, but the first wave of files posted on the Justice Department website have largely bee
BOOKING - courtesy photo TOMORROW! FRI 2/28 - Even the people who voted for Trump (but not Elon) are crying from the pain he is causing needlessly. So many of us are wailing, what can we do!? Yes, it is very hard to resist the combination of incredible sums of money,
One Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District campus has served as an example of putting state arts education funds to good use. At the Feb. 20 meeting of the SMMUSD Board of Education, McKinley Elementary School Principal Dr.
Breeze rankings for Week 10 of the high school football season. (The CalPreps CIF-SS and L.A. City Section rankings, as of Oct. 24, have been included for each team.) The Sentinels defeated Beverly Hills 49-0.
In the biggest moment of the game, Lawndale coach Travis Clark trusted his freshman quarterback. On the first possession of overtime, freshman Valentino May dropped back and connected with Jesse Anderson in the end zone for what ended up being the game-winning touchdown.
It was wall-to-wall red shirts inside Village Christian’s gym on Thursday night and student section chants were bouncing from floor to ceiling. Harvard-Westlake volleyball was dealt a road match with a tough environment in the first round of playoffs.
Welcome the penultimate week of the regular season. Taking a look around the South Bay and there are big games everywhere: Lawndale faces North Torrance in a key Pioneer League clash, Palos Verdes heads to Culver City,
Catch a storied high school football rivalry. Celebrate modern and ancient cultural traditions at the OC Japan Fair. Attend the Nuart Fest. Or go vintage at a Printers’ Fair or an Archives Bazaar.
Breeze rankings for Week 9 of the high school football season. (The CalPreps CIF-SS and L.A. City Section rankings, as of Oct. 17, have been included for each team.) It didn’t take the Sentinels long to show that they’re still the top dog in the Ocean League Friday.
Timothee Chalamet is officially a West Coast homeowner after buying model Kate Upton and Houston Astros baseball player Justin Verlander’s Beverly Hills home, located deep in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Santa Monica-based sports metaverse platform LootMogul announced an agreement for Hoop Culture Inc., a basketball lifestyle brand, to acquire the naming rights for a digital sports arena in “Orlando.” The company has several metaverse arenas named as if they are in real-world cities.
I thought the guys did great,” Mira Costa coach Don Morrow said. “They played hard and made some big plays when they had to.” The game was decided early as the Mustangs took advantage of some early Vikings’ miscues to jump out to a 21-0 lead.
The brunette bombshell, 24, completed her look with the same “2024” baseball cap she wore during the pair’s first public outing together on Saturday night.