The Santa Monica attack took place on April 4, when Marbra allegedly assaulted a 52-year-old woman on the Strand bike path on ...

July 11, 2025 -- A new City program that offers homeless individuals who have committed low-level crimes an alternative to jail is off to a promising start, City officials said.

SB 79, which is backed by the City Council, was approved 9 to 1 by the Housing Committee on Thursday after clearing the Senate last month. It now heads to the Assembly Local Government Committee.

July 10, 2025 -- The Santa Monica Police Department on Wednesday announced it has launched a "modern, userfocused" website to recruit new officers as vacancies reach a historic high.

The Council will pick a "preferred" scenario for the 197-acres of open land after the airport closes at the end of 2028 -- one scenario includes no housing, another adds "some housing" at the edges of ...

July 10, 2025 -- The City Council on Tuesday voted 6 to 1 to move ahead with a plan to convert 192 acres of airport land into a "Great Park" that excludes, and does not immediately study, housing.

The weakening opposition comes after dozens of alarmed residents opposed the Council's unanimous decision on May 13 to launch Southern California's first Entertainment Zone ( "Council Approves Scaled ...

The report released July 1 found that the annual Point-in-Time (PIT) counts taken by RAND last year in Venice, Hollywood and LA Skid Row differed widely from those taken by LAHSA after the agency took ...

Under an agenda item sponsored by members of the Council's super-majority, the Council would hold a study session no later than September 30 to explore ways to reform the City's policy for granting ...

It was 30 years ago -- 1995 -- when a kid named Lou Brancaccio (that's me), who grew up in Chicago, found his way to the end of Route 66. There were stops along the way of course: A journalism degree ...

August 29, 2014 -- The Santa Monica City Council approved approximately $1.2 million in expenditures Tuesday to maintain city buses, perform software maintenance on City computers and pay for ...