Grace Smith Special to the Daily Press It shouldn’t come as news that greenhouse gases and other pollution, as well as overfishing, seriously threaten our oceans’ ability to sustain life. […]

SMDP Photo More than a month after nine trees in the North of Montana neighborhood were illegally and harmfully pruned in an act of what Santa Monica Public Landscape Manager Matthew Wells has called “vandalism,” several residents of neighboring homes ...

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) have long been topics of discussion in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD), but, for many years, Executive Director of Elementary Schools Steve Richardson said efforts to improve in this arena have ...

Public spaces where smokers can puff away continue to go up in smoke. Over the years, Santa Monica has sought to restrict the places where lighting up is allowed, placing […]

The Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District has said ongoing legal concerns prevent it from answering questions about the employment status of Galit Gottlieb while the district considers whether to appeal the recent judgment. Last month, a jury said ...

The bomb threat came in to Samohi at 11:46 a.m. on Thursday.  That call triggered a series of actions by teachers, campus staff, district administrators and the Santa Monica Police […]

Pantaleone Bruno came to California from Italy in 1975 as a young man with a dream of being a chef and creating his own restaurant. In 1986 he did just […]

The piece states, “As an example, the owner of a home in Santa Monica or Malibu assessed at a value of $1 million will pay $900 a year for the bond,” but this is in direct contradiction to an ...

One case involved Synanon here in Santa Monica, a so-called drug rehab founded by Charles Dederich. He may have started with good intentions but power and money (estimated as high as $30 million ...

My name is Wendy Dembo. I am a Santa Monica resident and my daughter attends SAMO. Last year, she applied to and was accepted to Windward, Archer, and Crossroads. But I believe in public education.

And why is a Glendale dentist so interested in the Santa Monica-Malibu school board race?

Complete with a Santa Monica-inspired rap performance, the Chamber of Commerce held one of its first events under new CEO Judy Kruger this week, bringing together business leaders from around the ...

Really? In the uber-progressive People’s Republic of Santa Monica? Yup. As Casey Stengel used to say “You could look it up.” So have the populist strategies of Trumpism taken root in Santa ...

Note: The chart below is incomplete because the Santa Monica Democratic Club, SMRR, Yes on HMP, Save Our Santa Monica and Safe Santa Monica PACs failed to disclosure spending on candidates in ...

Once the campus was deemed safe and the threat deemed a hoax, students were released at about 2 p.m. “The Santa Monica Police Department has given an all-clear that our school is safe to ...

Whatever voters choose, the City of Santa Monica has elected to not take a formal position on the matter. Simmering tensions between the LA County Supervisors and LA Sheriff Alex Villanueva ...

Museum: Rob Schwenker is the new leader at the History Museum. Courtesy photo Santa Monica History Museum (SMHM)’s new Executive Director is a familiar face around the institution located on 7th ...

Among those is one in Santa Monica: the Vote Center at St. Anne’s Church on Colorado and 20th Street. There, a dedicated team of poll workers and volunteers has been hard at work checking in ...

Voters in the San Francisco suburb of Richmond and Southern California beachside city of Santa Monica will consider measures to further tighten existing rent caps to a maximum of 3%. In the city of Pasadena — home to the annual Rose Parade and Rose Bowl ...

AFM: The Loews hotel is the hub of AFM activity in Santa Monica. Courtesy photos Santa Monica is rolling out the red carpet to welcome the Independent Film & Television Alliance’s banner event back to town this year. The American Film Market (AFM ...