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.

LA Opera describes the plot this way: "In the musical retelling, New York City’s West Side is split between the Jets and the Sharks -- but these warring gangs never imagined that two of their own ...

Instead, Deputy Fire Chief Tom Clemo, who was assigned as Incident Commander of the California Interagency Incident Management Team 7, reported fraud to federal agencies, officials said in a statement ...

September 3, 2025 -- In a letter sent to neighborhood groups over the weekend, City Manager Oliver Chi provided some initial insights into recent public safety decisions that have spurred ...

The "fiscal distress" is only expected to worsen, with the fiscal year budget adopted by the Council on June 24 already failing to meet its adjusted expenditures of $484.3 million and $473.5 million ...

September 3, 2025 -- In an unusual move, Santa Monica's most prominent slow-growth group on Tuesday joined an effort to retain Police Chief Ramon Batista after his surprise resignation last month.

September 9, 2025 -- Two of the six Downtown Board members removed by the City Council filed a lawsuit Friday that seeks to invalidate the appointments the Council is expected to make Tuesday.