News from Santa Monica.
Earlier this week, a woman was killed after she was struck by a driver as she crossed Santa Monica Boulevard at 18th Street during an early morning jog. Her death was the fifth traffic-related fatality in about as many weeks…
The following is the entire response from the city of Santa Monica to a series of questions asked by Santa Monica Next editor Jason Islas following a series of fatal crashes in Santa Monica. The questions were: Just last year, the City…
Via Streetsblog California. Governor Jerry Brown and California legislative leaders are hoping that the transportation funding package they have agreed on will get quick approval in the legislature, and to that end have been stumping for it hither and yon.…
On April 12, the city of Santa Monica will present a final draft of the plan that will shape the future of the bayside city’s downtown for the next two decades. The most recent draft of the Downtown Community Plan…
Starting April 3, Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus will give riders the option of paying their fares through their smartphones. According to a report released today on the City’s website, the municipal transit service started a pilot program today with…
Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica held its third annual Living History Tour on Saturday as 14 actors stood by the graves of noted people buried there to deliver monologues highlighting their lives. The community was invited to talk a walking…
At a protest Monday, hotel workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 11, the regional hospitality workers’ union, gathered to demand the City Council act to protect about two dozen workers who lost their jobs when the restaurant Typhoon on city-owned…
State Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) thinks it’s about time California got an official dinosaur. Bloom, who sat on the Santa Monica City Council from 1999 until 2012, has introduced AB 1504, which would make Augustynolophus morissi — a duck-billed dinosaur that…
Above the surface, cemeteries are serene expanses of green, with plenty of trees and flowers. Below ground, however, America’s cemeteries are environmental disasters. Buried along with the deceased are toxic embalming fluids, metals from caskets, and thousands of tons of…
In November 2015, the Santa Monica City Council voted to approve plans for parklets at three locations on Main Street. According to a recent staff report, those parklets should be ready by July this year, just shy of two years…
Via Streetsblog California. While most media coverage of last week’s California Air Resources meeting focused on the board’s decision to strengthen vehicle emission standards, an equally remarkable and important discussion happened late in the first afternoon of the two-day meeting. That’s…
The first CicLAvia of the year took place yesterday along about six miles of Washington Boulevard and Venice Boulevard extending from Culver City to Venice. The weather was cool and sunny, the crowds were huge, and there were, of course,…
Santa Monica firefighters managed to put out a kitchen fire in an apartment building Tuesday afternoon while saving the life of a dog that had become unresponsive due to heat and smoke exposure. At about 4 p.m. Tuesday, firefighters responded to…
Staff at two new Downtown Santa Monica hotels will join the local hospitality workers union after the 70 workers voted to unionize, a vote which was recognized by hotel management last week. A majority of the 70 workers at the new…
About 60 artists who work out of studios at the Santa Monica Airport opened their creative spaces to the general public last Saturday. The event was the 11th annual Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk, sponsored by the city’s Cultural Affairs Division. Many…
