Triumph: City officials and business leaders revved up for an exciting afternoon at Triumph Santa Monica, taking part in the “Boulevard Bikes and Brews” open house event on June 1. The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for the motorcycle shop at 1710 Santa Monica Blvd.

Uber has lost its long-running attempt to overturn a California law that would require it to provide employment rights to its drivers and delivery workers. The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could have major implications — depending what the state Supreme Court decides in a separate but related case.

Dear Editor, I am writing to bring light to the maltreatment of the three lovely hens currently surviving in a small cage of dirt and filth on Yale Street in Santa Monica, as a part of the Upward Bound House urban farm,

Photo by Thomas Leffler For 20 soon to be high schoolers, their final day as Santa Monica Alternative School House (SMASH) students was much like their school experience, full of both playful and poignant moments. On Tuesday, SMASH held a graduation ...

According to the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD), just after midnight, in the early hours of this morning, Tuesday, 11 June, officers responded to a 911 call of an assault in the 2700 block of Main Street.

From navigating the deep waters of the COVID-19 pandemic to raising the profile of Saint Monica Preparatory’s breadth of activities, the Mariners class of 2024 was 76 souls committed to bettering themselves and the school community.

In those cases, protecting the discussion is absolutely valid. Premium Santa Monica news in your inbox. It's free, cancel anytime. However, there are instances where the discussions that are allowed to occur in closed session should be daylighted and the ...

As Samohi seniors prepare to put SMMUSD in the rearview mirror, it's also time for some of the district’s employees to ride into the sunset.

The first marketplace for local and diverse small businesses opened on Pico Blvd in a ribbon cutting ceremony that attracted the attention of local television news media, along with local residents and members of City Council.

As we enter the summer, and as the slow economic recovery from the shutdown continues, and candidates for our local offices begin to be endorsed by our various organizations, to ask what we want for our city in the next four years.

Flanked by a broad coalition of supporters, former LWV of Santa Monica President Natalya Zernitskaya officially kicked off her campaign for Santa Monica City Council last week, unveiling her plan to move the city forward and return it to its “people ...

I wanted to believe that humanity was more courageous, more rooted in morality than corporal fear. Premium Santa Monica news in your inbox. It's free, cancel anytime. But throughout history we see that Hobbes was often right. When violence strikes ...

The Santa Monica Pier’s amusement park introduced “Snackville” on June 7, a colony of customer-pleasing stands serving burgers, fries, churros, ice cream, funnel cake and frozen fruit treats. The new locale is the first of $10 million in capital ...

As a group of Samohi seniors prepare to put Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) in the rearview mirror, it is also time for some of the district’s dedicated employees to also ride into the sunset.

Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, said today at the CalMatters Ideas Festival. Premium Santa Monica news in your inbox. It's free, cancel anytime. Wiener and other panelists, in a discussion moderated by CalMatters homelessness reporter Marisa ...

State officials broke down the Removal Action Workplan (RAW) at McKinley Elementary School this week, a plan to mitigate potentially harmful chemicals within the campus’ soil and soil vapors. On Tuesday,

The northeast end of Wilshire Blvd has needed a little injection of life since the pandemic and newly opened restaurant Chelsea aims to do exactly that. The talented father-and-son team of Moez Megji and Karim Megji are behind the endeavor and they bring an abundance of hospitality experience to the table.

It’s the billion-dollar question. That’s how much cities and other local governments have been receiving from the state each year to deal with California’s ever-increasing population of homeless people.

On Thursday afternoon, over a period of approximately 90 minutes between 1:30pm and 3pm, a motorbike-mounted officer for the Santa Monica Police Department pulled over a total of seven vehicles for running through the stop sign placed where Olympic Blvd meets 5th Street,

Highly Recommended Tedeschi Trucks Band, Little Feat – Susan Tedeschi was a very well regarded blueswoman (guitar, soulful vocals) with albums and tours, before she met and married Derek Trucks, nephew of original Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks.