Voters in California have rejected a ballot measure that would have raised the state minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2026, the highest in the country.

The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company has opened its first Ghirardelli Chocolate & Ice Cream Shop in Santa Monica, California, US. The new shop is located at 1541 Ocean Ave, Suite 105, near the Santa Monica Pier.

The 523,139-square-foot Santa Monica Place shopping mall in Santa Monica, Calif., saw a big drop in value at its latest appraisal, according to new information from Trepp, citing November remittance data. The asset’s value dropped 59 percent in just seven years to $255 million, below the $300 million loan balance.

Undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children can purchase subsidized health plans through Covered California

The holiday season will officially begin on Thursday as the official City of Santa Monica Christmas tree lighting ceremony takes place.

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a so-called "sanctuary city" ordinance that bars city resources from being used for immigration enforcement

A man suspected of booby-trapping a residence in Santa Monica with ammunition and homemade trigger devices, as well as allegedly making criminal threats, was taken into custody.

As a physician, I am closely following a bird flu outbreak that is hitting our Central Valley dairy farms hard, especially since the California Department of Health reports at least 21 human cases. This number seems to increase each week in our state,

It got lost in the massive attention paid to Trump’s triumphant return to the White House, but a quiet revolution occurred in LA County.

Santa Monica College is offering new program to teach students how to help the homeless and get people into housing.

While the new year starts when the clock chimes midnight at the close of Dec. 31, the yuletide revels begin when you want them to begin. That means you can break out your faux Christmas tree in August, if you like, or a few hours before Santa arrives.

A shotgun was discovered mounted on top of a workbench, with a spring-loaded firing pin with a wire attached. Another shotgun was mounted next to a gate.

Officers arrested a Santa Monica man for allegedly fatally stabbing his elderly mother on Saturday morning, police say. Santa Monica Police said a call came into the department around 5:30 a.m. from a man saying his brother,

At first, Marlyn Huesgew Mendoza registered as a Democrat. In 2020, she re-registered as a Republican and voted for Donald Trump for president, as she did this election. The reason is simple: It was in 2018 — when he was in office — that her family was finally able to buy a house in Merced.

A range of experts, from Nobel Prize-winning economists to an internet-famous menswear writer, have a message for Americans who voted for Donald Trump based on his promises to bring down prices: This likely won’t go how you want.

Record-setting dry conditions in some parts of the US are raising fears of new wildfires and also could threaten drinking water supplies if substantial rain does not fall in the coming months. Firefighters battled wildfires from California to New York on Wednesday,

Google’s payments to influence state government surged to almost $11 million from July through September, nearly 90 times more than the same period last year, making it the highest-spending lobbyist employer in California in the third quarter.

The Samohi Lady Vikings went on a torrid win streak to end its second campaign, culminating in a flag fotball CIF title.

The suspect, 46-year-old Benjamin Bush, is accused of showing nude photographs of himself to at least four children at the Santa Monica Pier, according to police.

Police have arrested a man who they say intentionally showed young children on the Santa Monica pier nude photographs of himself. Benjamin Bush, 46, was arrested late October following an “intensive investigation by detectives,