Training: Metro simulated a fire drill Tuesday afternoon at the Downtown Santa Monica station, closing off the street at 5th Street and Colorado Ave. southbound to the parking lot entrance.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) will receive $15.6 million in new funding as part of a statewide handout to fight organized retail theft.

Striking actors have voted to expand their walkout to include the lucrative video game market, a step that could put new pressure on Hollywood studios to make a deal with the performers who provide voices and stunts for games.

A small-scale celebration was held to celebrate the life-long career of a former Santa Monica resident named Don Adams at the Museum of Flying at Santa Monica Airport.

A fire has completely destroyed the pickleball equipment storage facility in Memorial Park, an extremely popular location for Santa Monica’s pickleball-playing community. Up until recently, this was among the few places the public could play the fast-growing sport.

The eight-hour workday. Paid family leave. Those fruits of labor victories are part of everyday life in California.

Monica beaches were more crowded than usual on a Saturday morning, as tourists and visitors were joined by local environmental volunteers for Coastal Cleanup Day.

I’ve been doing what all writers do: making something from nothing, sometimes alone, and sometimes with groups of other misfits. Our imaginative labor has changed our culture, lit up living rooms with laughter,

While entertainment strikes appear to be resolving, hotel workers in took to the streets on Monday for their 100th picket line since the labor dispute began on July 4th. Union members have been protesting outside of the Hampton Inn & Suites and Courtyard hotels on 4th Street in addition to other hotels in Santa Monica.

Raw musical talent is in abundance across Santa Monica’s student bodies. To mold the young talent into true musical masters, two local campuses have called upon a true icon of the business, someone who answers the call on and off the stage.

A tentative agreement between striking screenwriters and Hollywood studios offers some hope that the industry’s dual walkouts may soon be over. But when will your favorite shows return?

The continuing discussion of how the SMMUSD can improve test scores was on the table during the district’s meeting.

The auto worker strikes expanded against major carmakers General Motors and Jeep and Ram owner Stellantis in 20 states

After over two years of planning, mochi ice cream parlor Mochidoki opened at 1133 Montana Avenue this past week

Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. voted to approve a new security measure that would ultimately replace the Community Ambassador service operated by a company called Block by Block.

The 90-freeway in Marina Del Rey is a vestigial roadway left over from a bygone era’s freeway expansion boom and like an appendix or wisdom teeth, a new group thinks the community would be better if it were removed.

Public support for striking Hollywood actors and writers is broad, but not necessarily deep enough for most people to change their viewing habits, a new poll finds.

Malibu Triathlon organizers will go before the Malibu city council Monday night to try to salvage this year’s race.

A previously-scheduled Oktoberfest event benefiting the Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Monica has been canceled.

A week after negotiations to rescue California’s floundering home insurance market stalled out in the Legislature, the state’s top insurance regulator put out his own rescue plan that effectively amounts to a trade for the state’s major insurers.