Julia Storm, a digital wellness counselor and ReConnect founder, joined us live with tips to help teens develop a healthy relationship with social media. For more information on ReConnect or

Snow above 5,000 feet and rain across the county made travel "difficult if not impossible" in some areas, the National Weather Service says.

Joan Didion was a writer uniquely attuned to the disorder and fragmentation of our times, the dizzying changes overtaking America since the 1960s, when, as she wrote in “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” lines from Yeats’s famous poem “ The Second Coming ” reverberated “in my inner ear as if they were surgically implanted there”: Things fall apart;

Oliveira and fellow chef/partner Victor Vasconcellos are here to show Los Angeles that there’s a lot more to Brazilian food than churrascarias, so they’re serving habit-forming fried tapioca cubes and a vegan stew (moqueca de caju) headlined by cashew fruit that’s startlingly complex.

Santa Monica will begin offering priority placement to its affordable housing program to families who were displaced by urban renewal projects

Ella Halikas wants to use her platform as a successful curvy model to push a message of confidence and body positivity.

The national co-chair for Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, Nina Turner, delivered an electrifying speech during her October 30 fundraiser at the Santa Monica home of Jan Goodman and Jerry Manpearl,

Sports seasons are well underway at high schools in and near Santa Monica, and Patch is teaming up with ScoreStream to bring you all of the week's upcoming games. California and the Santa Monica area are filled with crosstown rivalries and top tier teams that make for some great local matches.

In the battle between two top-tier sprinting fillies, Edgeway parlayed her runner-up finish in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) into a decisive wire-to-wire tally over Merneith in the $77,028 Kalookan Queen Stakes Jan.

Kevin Nalette has been named Kansas State University’s interim chief of staff and director of community relations by President Richard Myers.