News from Santa Monica.
A recent post at a website called Apartment Guide has caught a bit of attention on the Westside after it named Santa Monica the most expensive place to rent in the country. Apartment Guide made the attention-grabbing claim that average…
Santa Monica Arts Commissioner Phil Brock is calling for an end to the popular summer concerts on the Pier. In a column that ran Friday afternoon in the Santa Monica Mirror, the former Recreation and Parks Commissioner and two-time City Council candidate, said,…
The Santa Monica Police Department will be on the lookout for traffic violations that contribute to crashes involving bicyclists, pedestrians, and drivers this Friday, Jan. 6 and Monday, Jan. 8. “The Police Department periodically identifies locations where bike and pedestrian…
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…
This story originally ran on Streetsblog L.A. U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was in Los Angeles this morning to announce $1.6 billion in federal funds for Metro to extend the Purple Line subway to Century City. The federal funding includes a $1.187…
The campaign that soundly defeated the no-growth Measure LV this past November has been given the “Honorable Mention” nod in the 2016 Streetsie Awards category of “Advocacy Organization of the Year.” The Streetsie Awards are meted out by Santa Monica…
This past year, Santa Monica continued to advance some very progressive policies aimed at sharing the city’s increasing prosperity with as wide a swath of residents, workers, and other members of the community as possible. Still, this year’s headlines also…
Every year since 2009, Santa Monica has called upon hundreds of volunteers to help gather accurate data about the number of people sleeping in the bayside city’s streets and homeless shelters. The city of Santa Monica is asking people once…
For the fourth year in a row, Assemblymember Richard Bloom (D-Santa Monica) will chair the Assembly’s budget subcommittee that oversees spending on pressing environmental issues such as transportation and greenhouse gas reductions. Bloom, a resident of Santa Monica who served…
We are approaching the holidays and our publishing schedule will slow down as we prepare to celebrate. But we will also take advantage of these slow news days to give our website a much-needed overhaul. So, if you visit Santa…
When I came on board Santa Monica Next in 2014, it was because I believed in the project. In Santa Monica’s already saturated local media market, Next brought a new model for journalism and an independent voice to the table:…
For a city its size, Santa Monica has a robust media ecosystem of locally-focused print and digital news publications. With a population just shy of 100,000, Santa Monica boasts several print papers and two exclusively online publications (this one included)…
Santa Monica’s Breeze Bike Share, L.A. County’s first public bike-share system, will be hosting a four-day food and toy drive starting Thursday, December 15. Those interested in contributing can bring donations to specific Breeze Bike Share hubs between the hours…
What will it take to end the divisiveness surrounding development in Santa Monica? That was the ostensible question underpinning the discussion at the Santa Monica City Council meeting early Wednesday morning. Councilmembers Gleam Davis and Kevin McKeown together placed an…
In the first round of Curbed LA’s “Curbed Cup” competition, Santa Monica faces off with Pacoima to see who will advance in the competition to determine Los Angeles’ 2016 Neighborhood of the Year. The winner of this first faceoff will…
