Santa Monica spends an estimated $42.5 million a year on homeless programs and services, according to a Homelessness Study by the accounting firm Moss Adams LLP ("City Spends More than $40 Million on ...

July 25, 2025 -- President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that will have financial and practical impacts on Santa Monica's ongoing efforts to tackle homelessness.

Santa Monica's 2024 homeless count was impacted by a sudden drop in community volunteers and technical glitches encountered after LASHA upgraded to new technology ( "Few Volunteers, Tech Glitches ...

July 24, 2025 -- A flash mob tore through a high-end resale store in Santa Monica last Friday fleeing with a large quantity of merchandise in multiple getaway cars, according to police. The incident ...

The Climate Action and Adaptation Progress Report released Tuesday indicates that most of the progress towards reducing greenhouse gases has been the result of major efforts and investments by the ...

July 17, 2025 -- On August 8, Santa Monica College (SMC) will give sky watchers a "sneak peek" at the school's new planetarium, which is set to open in late September, college officials announced this ...

July 29, 2025 -- The number of sex abuse cases against the City has been rising after Santa Monica's cash-strapped government paid $230 million in settlements more than two years ago.

July 28, 2025 -- A Santa Monica resident was arrested by police last month after calling 911 more than 2,000 times over the past two years, according to police officials.

July 25, 2025 -- An era could officially come to an end Tuesday when the City Council takes up a proposal from RAND that would allow the research firm to sell or lease most of its sprawling ...

Sloan, who took over the post three years ago after serving in the City Attorney's Office in Fresno for 16 years, "leaves Santa Monica for a new opportunity at another agency in central California," ...

The Santa Monica DUI checkpoint will take place from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. at a location "determined based on data showing incidents of impaired driving-related crashes," police officials said. "The ...

The explosives were being moved on a cart at the Sheriff's training facility's parking lot in East LA when the blast went off killing Detectives Joshua Kelley-Eklund, Victor Lemus and William Osborn.