Activists opposed to the Santa Monica Airport will hold a rally on Saturday, February 4 to protest JetSuiteX’s plans for running commercial flights out the nearly century-old airfield. The protest will take place in the parking lot of the Ocean Park…
The property owner at Bergamot Station that drove out the nonprofit Santa Monica Museum of Art over a difference of opinion is now cashing out. Wayne Blank, who owned about two acres of the roughly six-acre Bergamot Station Arts Center…
Join Santa Monica Mayor Ted Winterer for the first monthly community bike ride of his tenure on Sunday, January 29. The roughly six-mile ride (about an hour to an hour and 20 minutes long) will start outside of City Hall…
While the incoming president has threatened to turn back many of the gains made in environmental conservation and fighting global climate change, Santa Monica remains committed to being a sustainability leader in 2017 and beyond. The city, which has long…
Housing affordability in California is the worst it has been in the state’s history and it’s widening the gap between rich and poor, according to a report from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) released Tuesday. The…
We sat down to talk to Ethan Elkind, author of Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City, about California’s housing crisis, the need for growth around L.A. County’s transit system, and how Santa Monica, his…
On Tuesday, Santa Monica could join the growing number of cities taking up the U.S. Department of Transportation Mayors’ Challenge to make streets safer for people. “With citywide (and eventually regional) bikeshare coming this year, we must focus even more…
It is election season in Santa Monica and, as a result, there is a lot of rhetoric being tossed around. This year, the candidate field for City Council is awash with folks stumping against “overdevelopment,” claiming the beachside city has…
