The resolution is a tool that can be used to help implement "a citywide game plan" scheduled to be presented to the Council next month that lays out ways to tackle Santa Monica's fiscal crisis by ...

This time, the final version of the bill was scaled down to include mainly passenger rail lines, with the tallest buildings -- up to nine stories -- only allowed adjacent to heavy rail lines like BART ...

January 28, 2025 -- Santa Monica rents in January saw the largest rise in more than a year, bucking a seasonal trend nationwide, according to Apartment List's monthly report.. The 2 percent increase ...

The changing of the guard comes a little over one month after City Manager Oliver Chi became Santa Monica's top administrator on July 24 and follows the resignation of Police Chief Ramon Batista.

Run out of two trailers on the Civic Auditorium lot, the State-funded program -- which costs $8 million over three years -- offers a "respite hub" for those with current or prior low-level ...

Chosen to serve terms ending on June 30, 2026 were Sean Besser, president of the Ocean Park Association Board (OPA), Hodge Patterson, CEO of the Santa Monica Family YMCA and Albin Gielicz, a member of ...

The latest Santa Monica Pulse poll found that 87 percent of respondents were unsatisfied with the Council's performance since four new members were seated last December. Of those, 78 percent were ...

September 10, 2025 -- The developer of the 521-unit mixed use housing project at the Gelson's site at Lincoln and Ocean Park boulevards will not be moving ahead with the approved project.

The suspect -- identified as Calvin Otis Arnold, 58, -- was booked into the Santa Monica Jail on charges of "peeping while loitering" and prowling. He remained in police custody Tuesday.