The stretch of the Expo line between Downtown Santa Monica and Sepulveda Boulevard will close this weekend for maintenance, according to Metro officials. Starting on Friday, February 24 at 9 p.m. through Sunday, February 26 until close of service, the…
Before the tiny house craze, there were shotgun houses, small narrow cottages that were once common in Santa Monica during the turn of the last century. On May 3, the Los Angeles Conservancy will honor its Santa Monica counterpart with…
This Saturday, February 25, Santa Monicans will celebrate the opening of a new park, the renaming of another, and they will have a chance to take a bike ride with Mayor Ted Winterer. Saturday’s festivities will kick off with dedication of…
The Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to seek an update on the implementation on the city’s six-year-old Bike Action Plan. The item, which was placed on the agenda by Mayor Ted Winterer and Councilmembers Terry O’Day and Pam…
Update: The City Council voted 5-to-0 to support divesting Santa Monica from Wells Fargo. Councilmembers Sue Himmelrich and Pam O’Connor were not present for the vote. Himmelrich recused herself from the vote because she said she has represented Wells Fargo…
The Santa Monica City Council Tuesday will consider a comprehensive earthquake retrofit ordinance that could affect more than 17,000 apartments or condos in more than 2,000 buildings throughout the city. The Los Angeles Times called the ordinance “the nation’s most…
The Planning Commission will weigh in Wednesday on plans for the first stage of an overhaul of the southern stretch of Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica that will transform the former highway into a more livable street. City staff on…
If you are planning to travel on the Expo line this weekend, be prepared for some slowdowns. Metro announced this week that starting at Friday, February 10 at 9 p.m. through Sunday, February 12, the tracks between the Culver City…
This Saturday, families will gather in Virginia Avenue Park for the first Kidical Mass family bike ride of 2017. Taking its name from “Critical Mass,” large social bike rides organized to make bike riding more visible in the streets, Kidical…
UPDATE: As of 1:50 p.m., the lockdown has been lifted, according to SMPD officials. Santa Monica High School is currently on lockdown due to police activity in the area, according to a District officials. In a tweet posted by the Santa…
Three employees of the Shore Hotel in Santa Monica have been compensated nearly $100,000 in back pay as part of a settlement of a complaint filed by the General Counsel’s Office of the National Labor Relations Board last year. “In…
Santa Monica released a list Tuesday of more than 17,000 apartments or condos in more than 2,000 buildings that will require further study under the city’s new earthquake retrofit requirements. The list also included commercial properties that could require retrofit…
In a surprising reversal, the Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to allow Santa Monica to close its nearly century-old airport. In a press conference Saturday afternoon, Santa Monica Mayor Ted Winterer announced that the “historic agreement with the federal government”…
For the first time since 2011, the Santa Monica Housing Authority will open the wait list for federal Section 8 rental assistance this Tuesday. The reopening of the waiting list — people can sign up online from 8 a.m. to…
Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros will be this year’s State of the City keynote speaker. Cisneros, who served under former President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997, will be joined by Santa Monica City Manager Rick…
