While riding his bike north on Pacific Coast Highway around 7 p.m. on October 15, 23-year-old Kazumasa Nozaki was hit from behind by a driver and killed. Witnesses say that the driver attempted to flee but was chased down by…
The Santa Monica Democratic Club will host L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, Assemblymember Richard Bloom, and City Manager Rick Cole tonight for a forum on housing and homelessness. From 6 to 9 p.m. at the Santa Monica Public Library, the…
Due to extreme heat and high winds, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District will operate at minimum day schedules Wednesday and will allow parents to take their children out of school early. Superintendent Ben Drati sent an email to parents…
Late last month, Governor Jerry Brown signed a package of 15 bills designed to begin addressing California’s historic housing crisis. Among those bills, the ones that received perhaps the most media attention were Senate Bills (S.B.) 2 and 3 —…
After a brief delay, plans to shorten the runway at Santa Monica Airport will move forward, according to city officials. A letter by Santa Monica Airport Director Stelios Makrides sent to media Tuesday confirmed that a temporary court order preventing…
After missing the original opening date last month, the city began installation today on Santa Monica’s first dedicated bus lanes. The city began striping the lanes, which will replace the parking lanes on Lincoln Boulevard south of Olympic Boulevard during rush…
Santa Monica residents will have about three weeks to weigh in on the city’s new draft Electric Vehicle Action Plan. The plan is a hundred page document that outlines policies and infrastructure goals to accommodate — and encourage — the…
On September 25, bus riders on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica will see their commute get easier when the city opens two peak-hour dedicated bus lanes on a short stretch of the major thoroughfare. The lanes, originally slated to open…
Santa Monica, in partnership with Kaiser Permanente, launched the city’s 2017 Wellbeing Index findings this week, revealing a community excelling by some measures, but with significant disparities and a severe housing affordability problem. For the past four years, through the…
On Friday, Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. will be celebrating Park(ing) Day, the yearly world-wide event during which people transform metered parking spaces into temporary public spaces, with its own parklet. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Downtown Santa Monica, Inc., the nonprofit…
Late Monday morning, emergency crews responded to multiple emergency calls after a construction mishap at Lincoln Middle School set of a chain reaction of electrical problems throughout the north end of the city, according to Santa Monica officials. Construction crews…
Santa Monica officials evacuated the Santa Monica Pier after reports of a suspicious vehicle led to a bomb scare. At around 4 p.m., the Santa Monica Police Department tweeted out the following warning: Please avoid the #SantaMonicaPier until further notice…
After escalating confrontations with white supremacist groups over the past couple of months, the grassroots Committee for Racial Justice saw an outpouring of community support Sunday night at its monthly meeting at the Thelma Terry building in Virginia Avenue Park.…
With Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks retiring at the end of this month, Santa Monica has tapped 26-year veteran of the force, Captain Kenneth Semko, as her interim replacement. Semko, who has worked on the department’s Homeless Liaison Program as…
When opponents of the proposed Bergamot Transit Village project gathered signatures to overturn the City Council’s approval of the mixed commercial and residential plans, they promised the developer would come back with a better plan. The development they fought would…
