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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.