Training: Metro simulated a fire drill Tuesday afternoon at the Downtown Santa Monica station, closing off the street at 5th Street and Colorado Ave. southbound to the parking lot entrance.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) will receive $15.6 million in new funding as part of a statewide handout to fight organized retail theft.
A fire has completely destroyed the pickleball equipment storage facility in Memorial Park, an extremely popular location for Santa Monica’s pickleball-playing community. Up until recently, this was among the few places the public could play the fast-growing sport.
A tentative agreement between striking screenwriters and Hollywood studios offers some hope that the industry’s dual walkouts may soon be over. But when will your favorite shows return?
Monica beaches were more crowded than usual on a Saturday morning, as tourists and visitors were joined by local environmental volunteers for Coastal Cleanup Day.
I’ve been doing what all writers do: making something from nothing, sometimes alone, and sometimes with groups of other misfits. Our imaginative labor has changed our culture, lit up living rooms with laughter,
While entertainment strikes appear to be resolving, hotel workers in took to the streets on Monday for their 100th picket line since the labor dispute began on July 4th. Union members have been protesting outside of the Hampton Inn & Suites and Courtyard hotels on 4th Street in addition to other hotels in Santa Monica.
Raw musical talent is in abundance across Santa Monica’s student bodies. To mold the young talent into true musical masters, two local campuses have called upon a true icon of the business, someone who answers the call on and off the stage.
Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. voted to approve a new security measure that would ultimately replace the Community Ambassador service operated by a company called Block by Block.
An entertainment extravaganza returned to Santa Monica’s premier landmark Thursday, with a collection of community events taking over the Santa Monica Pier.
The 90-freeway in Marina Del Rey is a vestigial roadway left over from a bygone era’s freeway expansion boom and like an appendix or wisdom teeth, a new group thinks the community would be better if it were removed.
Public support for striking Hollywood actors and writers is broad, but not necessarily deep enough for most people to change their viewing habits, a new poll finds.
A week after negotiations to rescue California’s floundering home insurance market stalled out in the Legislature, the state’s top insurance regulator put out his own rescue plan that effectively amounts to a trade for the state’s major insurers.
Mia Gates scored a pair of goals and Claire Babbitt added the other to lead the Stars (6-2-2, 5-0-1) to a 3-0 win over St. Paul Tuesday. The win clinched a third consecutive outright Santa Fe League title for the Stars.
The Mira Costa girls soccer team returned to action Friday with a win and followed with another one Saturday. In their first game since Dec. 20, sophomore Sydney Bushman scored a pair of goals to lead the Mustangs to a 2-0 win over Culver City Friday.
Bay League boys and girls basketball teams will play five league games and then there will be a tournament to determine seeding for CIF-Southern Section playoffs.
One of the most successful NBA basketball players of all time, Shaquille O’Neal has six children, and one of them is very talented Shareef O’Neal who by all accounts can make it big in the NBA. As online sports betting is surging in popularity among basketball and sports fans in general,
To fully grasp the impact of Friday’s semifinal games in the College Football Playoff, imagine a big slab of peanut butter hitting the kitchen floor. What a sound. What excitement! The games were an Alabama-Georgia festival of SEC dominance,
There’s something about the Rose Bowl and its mystique, its history, its draw that brings people in. Thousands of Utah Utes fans are experiencing that now.
All eyes have been on the Classic at Damien in La Verne this week where some of the best boys’ basketball programs in the state were campaigning themselves to be ‘Open Division worthy’. Corona Centennial,
Then came an unforgettable blitz, in itself sweet validation of Christmas Day basketball and illustrating why the Warriors’ system is built to last. First came one of the half-dozen Curry 3-pointers that typify his brilliance under duress,
Even if a college football player is assessed for concussion and given the all clear, longer-term brain trauma may still be present, according to a new study in the journal iScience. Researchers evaluated measures of metabolomic,
A recent column mischaracterized Cal head football coach Justin Wilcox, portraying him as a troubled soul likely to leave Berkeley and ascend the ladder of relevance among Pac-12 schools. It turns out he’s a Cal man all the way.