More than a year and a half after the wildfires devastated communities across Los Angeles County, thousands of homeowners remain caught between the cost of rebuilding and the financing needed to ...

SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town include Eric Idle and “Weird Al” Yankovic, Halloween happenings, a feast of foodie events, and much more! Eric Idle & “Weird Al” ...

Santa Monica College Corsairs face West L.A. College Wildcats in homecoming football game Saturday, Oct. 24 at 5 p.m. at Corsair Stadium. General admission $10 adults, $5 seniors/youth.

Editor's Note: The Bryson Fire is at about 20 percent containment as of Friday morning. Several brush fires were burning in Southern California on Thursday evening, stoked by hot, windy weather that ...

While many Santa Monica kids spent the summer playing video games or traveling, Matteo Milk spent his learning to code and selling websites to local businesses. The 14-year-old student at John Adams ...

SB 799 expands South Bay Regional Housing Trust's ability to finance workforce housing for teachers, healthcare workers, and first responders starting January 1, 2025.

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The Venice Whaler, the beachfront bar and grill at the foot of Washington Boulevard, has temporarily stopped serving alcohol because of a paperwork error, owner Mike Dobson told SMDP on ...

The Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously early Wednesday to establish one of the nation's largest locally funded restorative justice programs, allocating $3.5 million to address decades of ...

Autonomous vehicle company Waymo LLC filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the City of Santa Monica, seeking to block municipal efforts to shut down overnight operations at two Broadway electric vehicle ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced this week it has terminated leases with three private tenants on the West Los Angeles VA campus, a move that could clear the way for thousands of units of ...

Santa Monica's on-demand transportation service for seniors and people with disabilities is expanding its operating hours starting in January, including the restoration of Sunday service that was ...