The grant program has expanded to serve small businesses ($15,000 or $20,000 per grant) and nonprofits ($20,000 or $25,000 per grant).

The long vacant, seismically unsafe and recently "surplus" Civic Center Auditorium could become a gym facility for Santa Monica High School.

The ceiling at Will Rogers Learning Community is in need of repair that could result in students being relocated while the work is done. Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District Chief Operations Officer Carey Upton told the Board of Education at their Feb.

When the last of the Wendel siblings died in 1931, the world assumed that the childless family had no heirs to inherit their vast wealth and New York real-estate empire. Thousands came forward to try