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A newly released report has determined that the proposal to create a stand-alone Malibu Unified School District fails to meet eight of the nine state criteria required for establishing an independent school district in California.

Monterola went right to work convincing Tetairoa to check out an OCVC practice. Shawny had played volleyball in college at Hawai'i Pacific. Her brother, Paka Dutro, played at Santa Monica College and has been coaching volleyball in Southern California for more than 25 years. Monterola knew him well and gave him a call.

Global music icon and pop sensation Katy Perry made a stunning impression both on the red carpet and onstage when she wore Indian designer Gaurav Gupta's ensemble at the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in Santa Monica.

Why it matters: Under “at-large” election systems like Santa Monica’s, everyone who lives in a city votes on the same set of candidates. In a district-based election system, a city is divided into districts and voters choose from candidates vying to represent just their neighborhood.

Prism Places is now the property manager of Santa Monica Place, the 527K SF retail center that Macerich previously owned. Macerich defaulted on a $300M loan on the property last year. Trigild, the court-appointed receiver that assumed control of the mall last month, brought Prism Places on board, according to a release.

Jodie Foster and her look-alike son Christopher “Kit” Bernard Foster enjoyed a fun night out in California on Saturday, April 5. The mother-son duo had identical smiles as they walked the carpet at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony held at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.

President Donald Trump's expansive new tariffs flips on its head a decades-long global trend of lower trade barriers and is likely, economists say, to raise prices for Americans by thousands of dollars each year while sharply slowing the U.

Jodie Foster turned heads at the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony in Santa Monica over the weekend as she made a rare and heartwarming red carpet appearance with her youngest son Kit. The Oscar-winning actress, 62, looked effortlessly elegant in an all-white sleeveless collared wrap dress, her signature short brown bob styled to perfection.

Three months after the Eaton fire started, leaving scorched ruins across much of the Southern California region, many locals are voicing concerns about rebuilding.