Three City Councilmembers are asking staff to explore ways to build more affordable housing in Santa Monica without relying mostly on market rate developers. Mayor Sue Himmelrich and Councilmembers Kristin McCowan and Kevin McKeown have placed an item on Tuesday's agenda to explore building affordable housing on government and non-profit sites and to discourage commercial development sites where housing can be built.

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Santa Monica storefront for Winston Pies . By Kerry Slater. One of Los Angeles’s best pie shops based out of Brentwood is opening a new Westside location soon. Winston Pies will

There's plenty of activity around Mars this month, and the Santa Monica College (SMC) John Drescher Planetarium will offer three shows updating the missions that have arrived at the Red Planet. The orbiters and rovers launched by the United States,

The actor, 64, was casually stylish in a brown suede jacket buttoned over an open-neck black shirt. He wore black jeans and a pair of black lace-up leather shoes.

Shots were fired Wednesday at a car on the Santa Monica (10) Freeway near downtown Los Angeles, but no one was hurt, authorities said. The incident was reported about 4 a.m. on the freeway near Crenshaw Boulevard,

A person suspected of driving under the influence in Santa Monica last weekend crashed into an outdoor dining area on Main Street, sending diners fleeing and injuring several people. The 8 p.m. Friday crash happened directly in front of the busy Urth Caffe,

Two Santa Monica sisters used the pandemic as an excuse to start a baking company, Conscious Cookies. Chris Martinez reports.

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A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer and two other people were injured Thursday — including a driver later arrested on suspicion of DUI — in a multi-vehicle crash that prompted the full closure of the westbound Santa Monica (10) Freeway near downtown Los Angeles.