July 14, 2025 -- Federal agents on Thursday arrested a resident of Santa Monica and Tehran at LAX for illegally exporting electronic equipment to Iran's government, according the U.S. Justice ...

July 11, 2025 -- A new City program that offers homeless individuals who have committed low-level crimes an alternative to jail is off to a promising start, City officials said.

The Santa Monica attack took place on April 4, when Marbra allegedly assaulted a 52-year-old woman on the Strand bike path on ...

SB 79, which is backed by the City Council, was approved 9 to 1 by the Housing Committee on Thursday after clearing the Senate last month. It now heads to the Assembly Local Government Committee.

The report released July 1 found that the annual Point-in-Time (PIT) counts taken by RAND last year in Venice, Hollywood and LA Skid Row differed widely from those taken by LAHSA after the agency took ...

July 10, 2025 -- The Santa Monica Police Department on Wednesday announced it has launched a "modern, userfocused" website to recruit new officers as vacancies reach a historic high.

The Council will pick a "preferred" scenario for the 197-acres of open land after the airport closes at the end of 2028 -- one scenario includes no housing, another adds "some housing" at the edges of ...

July 10, 2025 -- The City Council on Tuesday voted 6 to 1 to move ahead with a plan to convert 192 acres of airport land into a "Great Park" that excludes, and does not immediately study, housing.

It was 30 years ago -- 1995 -- when a kid named Lou Brancaccio (that's me), who grew up in Chicago, found his way to the end of Route 66. There were stops along the way of course: A journalism degree ...

August 29, 2014 -- The Santa Monica City Council approved approximately $1.2 million in expenditures Tuesday to maintain city buses, perform software maintenance on City computers and pay for ...

May 8-- In the second of a two-part interview with The Lookout, City Council member Bobby Shriver discusses his biggest disappointments during his two-and-a-half years in office, what he would do ...