Original, on-the-ground reports from Santa Monica in your inbox daily, Monday-Saturday. The winter storm moving through the area has triggered wind, flood and beach warnings. The National Weather Service is predicting winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph.

Québec-based Cirque FLIP Fabrique will perform in Smothers Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 1, at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts.  Tickets, starting at $25 for adults or $25 for youth 17 and under,

Emeritus Art Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of creative works by California master sculptor Charles Dickson. The exhibition will run from January 19 to April 28 in the Emeritus Art Gallery at 1227 Second St.

Over 40 young singers from Elemental Music’s choir programs are featured in “Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl,” an all-new Original Special now available to stream only on Disney+. “Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl” transforms the historic venue into the world of the animated film that became a worldwide phenomenon.

Santa Monica College (SMC) and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Westside Coalition have announce that civil rights icon Benjamin (Ben) Franklin Chavis, Jr. will be the keynote speaker at the birthday celebration for Rev.

Patients at Providence Saint John’s Health Center participated in a recently completed global clinical trial to test the safety and effectiveness of a revolutionary device to treat persistent atrial fibrillation,

This February, the City of Santa Monica will commemorate Black History Month with the theme of Black Resistance. To kick off the month, the City will host food trucks on February 1 at both City Yards and City Hall along with music and dancing.

Global creative consultancy Designworks is set to open a new, 16,500 sq ft office space on Olympic Blvd in Santa Monica, a part of the city already home to top creative companies including Pixomondo,

State leaders need to emphasize policies that generate more middle-income housing inside cities and create pathways to homeownership

Original, on-the-ground reports from Santa Monica in your inbox daily, Monday-Saturday. With Christmas gifts and holiday cards delivered, the US Postal Service’s (USPS) busiest season of the year is drawing to a close but efforts to hire more postal workers continue.

City Council resumes meetings this week with a relatively short agenda heavy on administrative items tying up business from last year. The only new ordinance on the agenda is an expanded prohibition on smoking in multi-unit residential buildings.

Three Santa Monica Women are on a mission to make a dent in the problem. In February 2022, sisters Isabelle and Inna Kreydin and friend Sienna Monnier came together to create Bubbles Dog Rescue with the goal of pulling as many dogs as possible off of euthanization lists and placing them into loving “furever” homes.

Kicking off the New Year on a positive note, the Jan. 8 workshop of the Committee for Racial Justice will return to in person meetings at Virginia Ave. Park and will have the Black Apology by the City of Santa Monica as its topic.

Public Health officials are asking for the community’s help in reducing the chances of another post-holiday surge and limiting the spread of new COVID-19 strains that could gain dominance in Los Angeles County.

A resident of the Westside of Los Angeles pleaded guilty Friday to federal criminal charges for using websites and apps such as Snapchat to meet and entice children to engage in sexually explicit conduct via video-chat then take “screen shot” images and videos of them.

The Santa Monica Pier will host over 3,000 TCU fans for a pep rally on Jan. 8 from 4 – 5 p.m.  After the best semifinal day in the nine-year history of the College Football Playoff, the title game will match the defending national champion against the closest thing the sport has had in years

As rain continues to hound Santa Monica for a second consecutive week, gallons of pollution-laden storm water runoff that once would have flown into the Santa Monica Bay are being diverted and capture

As rain continues to hound Santa Monica for a second consecutive week, gallons of pollution-laden storm water runoff that once would have flown into the Santa Monica Bay are being diverted and capture

A santa Monica police officer is suing the city and a fellow officer over a 2020 car crash. The case stems from a 2020 accident at the intersection of Pico and 11th Street. According to the lawsuit, both officers were driving their department issued SUV’s toward an emergency call with lights and sirens activated.

The Santa Monica money is part of $22.6 million in Community Project Funding that Congressman Ted Lieu successfully secured for 15 projects in his district. Those projects were all included in the recently approved $1.