And in Los Angeles where I live, all of these activities are incomplete without a trip to the local frutero—either outside Dodger Stadium, off of the Santa Monica Pier, or even by my local Target. A frutero, or street fruit vendor, is an LA-staple ...

Denise Amos It shouldn’t be this hard to get money into the hands of parents struggling to feed their children. But in California, where even the simple can get real complicated, hundreds of millions of federal dollars meant for hungry kids have slipped away unspent.

Crowdstrike -- a cybersecurity firm that provides cloud workload protection and uses AI to detect and block threats -- said the outage was caused by a software issue and not a cyberattack. The company said it has identified the problem and deployed a fix that can get systems back on-line immediately, although it could take longer.

Former President Barack Obama has privately expressed concerns to Democrats about President Joe Biden’s candidacy, and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi privately warned Biden that Democrats could lose the ability to seize control of the House if he doesn’t step away from the 2024 race,

The oil painting depicts a woman standing on a podium, her arm aloft as she grasps a laurel crown in her hand. A scarlet cloak drapes across her chest as she stares at the viewer. To the naked eye, the painting looks like a normal piece in an online portfolio.

Hillin contacted the FBI and the Santa Monica Police Department, as well as Senator Benjamin Allen, Assembly Rick Chaves, and Congressman Ted Lieu with the case. “Eyes in the Trees” is an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ “The Island of Dr. Moreau.”

While topics like crime and homelessness continue to be hot-button in Santa Monica, the issue of housing and construction took the forefront during a Wednesday gathering of local leaders. At Headspace within the Bergamot Station Arts Center Wednesday evening,

The National Park Service (NPS) has selected Jody Lyle as the new permanent superintendent of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) beginning July 28, 2024.  Lyle first started working with the NPS in 1992 as an environmental educator for Joshua Tree National Park.

The drone was flying back from a call when the operator decided to check out the crowd at the parking lots near the pier. That's when they found a man breaking into cars.

A burglary suspect in Santa Monica was taken into custody over the Fourth of July holiday after a police drone returning to the station spotted the man breaking into vehicles in the parking lot near the pier,