Kids across Santa Monica will soon be out of the classroom and jump into a summer of infinite possibilities. For a few select months, these children can turn from mere students to avid adventurers, amateur scientists and advanced athletes.

Recent testing revealed several Santa Monica beaches have bacteria levels that exceed health standards, officials said.

Ben Affleck attended dinner in Los Angeles without Jennifer Lopez amid breakup rumors surrounding the couple, who tied the knot in 2022.

Larry Ameyal Cedeno, 29, was arrested after allegedly stabbing two people and assaulting another in Santa Monica.

We did it right after a show at the Santa Monica Civic Center [in December 1982], which featured the Misfits and a Black Flag reunion,” says Jerry. “We recorded all the music for that album right from midnight to six in the morning. Complete.

The second victim in the brutal Venice Canal attacks was declared brain dead on Monday afternoon, according to close family friends. The out-of-state mother of two adult children had recently been transferred from Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center to a facility in Van Nuys after spending nearly six weeks at the hospital’s Neurocritical Care Center.

Having ear pain when you yawn or burp could be linked to a huge range of factors, Dr. Dahl says, including a throat infection, middle ear infection, fluid in your middle ear, or an external ear infection. "It could also be from the temporomandibular joint—from clenching or grinding your teeth," Dr. Dahl says.

Businesses: The Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce recently welcomed a new business to Ocean Avenue and embraced another location’s rebranding on Lincoln Blvd. On May 15, the Chamber and other local guests were serenaded with a live band and imbibed in an outdoor bar setting for the rebranding of the Santa Monica Hotel at 2102

More than 1,500 graduate students, teaching assistants and researchers are expected to walk off the job at UC Santa Cruz today, launching the first labor strike over the University of California’s response to pro-Palestinian protests in the past month.

Financial support for the nearly 6 million students in California’s public schools is not only the largest chunk of the state budget, but for the past half-century it has been its most contentious element.