The futuristic-looking Ballona Creek Trash Inceptor 007 trash removal feature introduced several months ago was put to the test recently.

Stevie Wonder plays Santa BOO CHRIS MARTIN! Never liked your lame band Coldplay or some of your celebrity antics, but now you’ve demolished your star architect John Lautner-designed Malibu home, to bu

MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer The number of U.S. deaths dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before the coronavirus hit. Preliminary data — through the first 11 months of the ye

Anniversary: Mel’s Drive-in celebrated its 75th anniversary yesterday with decorations and a special 75% off deal on select menu items. The restaurant chain opened its Santa Monica location in the […]

A Los Angeles cellphone store owner who stole some $25 million from wireless carriers by illegally unlocking phones was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison. Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, […]

Spain’s Queen Letizia was in Los Angeles on Tuesday where she celebrated the opening of a center that promotes the Spanish language and culture throughout the world. Letizia Ortíz opened […]

WINNING AN ELECTION Not an easy thing to do. It takes a lot of work,  a lot of hours. You have to want very badly to be of service to […]

CHRISTOPHER WEBER Los Angeles' most famous mountain lion, known for roaming across freeways and making a sprawling urban park his home, was captured Monday by wildlife officials who w

Downtown Santa Monica’s holiday celebration, Winterlit, will celebrate the Festival of Lights with nightly menorah lightings beginning this Sunday, December 18 through December 26. Different synagogue

This is the last week to get holiday gifts and greetings in the mail by the recommended deadlines. Customer traffic at all Post Office locations has been steadily increasing since […]

Original, on-the-ground reports from Santa Monica in your inbox daily, Monday-Saturday. The City of Malibu Community Services Department is proud to offer Winter Day Camps December 20 through December 29 during the Santa Monica – Malibu Unified School ...

SMDP Editor The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles recently honored the Scali Rasmussen law firm with its Pro Bono Law Firm Award in recognition of a yearslong effort to find justice for

Promising to "move people inside" and announcing her plans to declare a state of emergency on homelessness as her first official act, Congresswoman Karen Bass, a native of Los Angeles who has represen

The window for sexual abuse victims of former Santa Monica City employee and volunteer Eric Uller to file a claim with the City will come to a close at the […]

At its November 17 meeting, the 13-member Board of Directors for Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. (DTSM) charged with the stewardship of the 30-block property-based assessment district identified and approved six

Researchers from the Pacific Neuroscience Institute (PNI) at Providence Saint John’s Health Center have discovered a novel method to accurately identify and diagnose patients with cognitive impairments using functional mapping

Westside Food Bank is providing a one-to-one match for every dollar donated to its Million Meals Match campaign through the end of 2022. The Johnny Carson Foundation, Westside Food Bank […]

Editor, The published Commentary “Tricky measure allows release of violent felons” (Santa Monica Daily Press, December 7) captured my attention, not only for its chilling examples of the failure of

A proposal to add digital outdoor advertising kiosks has prompted the threat of a lawsuit from a company spurned by the selection process.

A recently agreed upon increase in teacher salaries will leave the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) in the red by about $20 million this year but school officials said […]