Your union has screwed you, again, big time. All 160,000 of you. (Well — not Leonardo or Renee.) Out of moral conviction, you resolutely turned down tens of thousands of dollars, maybe more, of non-union work over the years,

Joni Swenson, who has been the orchestra director at Samohi for 17 years, announced she is retiring this fall. Beloved by students, parents, and teachers alike, Swenson helped bring the Santa Monica High School symphony orchestra to concerts across the world.

The Pico Neighborhood Association has asked the California Supreme Court to review its case against the City of Santa Monica following an appeal court ruling that upheld the city’s at-large voting system.

Santa Monica’s favorite businesses have been revealed with the delayed, but not diminished, publication of the annual Most Loved guide.

The state's Flex Alert was on again Wednesday but by the evening the California ISO said no forced outages would be necessary.

California legislators are considering a bill to create an ethnic studies course requirement for high school students. The effort was shelved last year, but national protests over racial inequality have helped revive the debate.

True Santa Monica, California, story: I saw a white man wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt. I went up to him and said, "You know, Guevara was racist, called Blacks dumb and lazy." He said, "Really?!"

In 1945, thousands were released from internment camps. But they couldn’t return to the world they had left. Temporary housing in the Winona trailer camp in Burbank, Calif., in 1946. A year earlier, the occupants had lived in internment camps.

LA hosts a ton of film festivals every year, from the biggest of the bunch, Outfest, to more modest events, like the Santa Monica Film Festival. But with movie theaters closed during the pandemic, festivals are doing what so many people and businesses are ...

An excessive heat warning was extended to 9 p.m. Thursday for the San Fernando, Santa Clarita, San Gabriel and Antelope valleys, as well as the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains.