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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

After years of stalled progress on improving support for children and youth in foster care, compounded by the harm young people experienced during the pandemic, California simply can’t wait any longer to make foster youth a priority.

Shared bicycles will be returning to Santa Monica this week when international mobility company Helbiz deploys its first vehicles in the city

Prior to attending UCLA, Lindo’s commute to Santa Monica College from Echo Park in Los Angeles put her at a disadvantage academically: She would cut evening study sessions short knowing she would have to wake up in the early morning to catch a bus — one she hoped was on time.

E-commerce giant Amazon and business software maker Salesforce are the latest U.S. technology companies to announce major job cuts

President Joe Biden said Thursday the U.S. would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally

Original, on-the-ground reports from Santa Monica in your inbox daily, Monday-Saturday. Following the traditional over-indulgence of the Holiday season, it’s equally traditional to slam on the brakes and almost overnight go from roast turkey to cold turkey.

Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics show. The show is getting back to normal after going completely virtual in 2021 and seeing a significant drop in 2022 attendance because of the pandemic.

Twitter says it will ease up on its 3-year-old ban on political advertising, the latest change by Elon Musk as he tries to pump up revenue after purchasing the social media platform last year. The company tweeted late Tuesday that “we’re relaxing our ads policy for cause-based ads in the US.

Original, on-the-ground reports from Santa Monica in your inbox daily, Monday-Saturday. As a huge storm hit California on Wednesday, officials ordered evacuations in a high-risk coastal area where mudslides killed 23 people in 2018,