Among the thousands of buildings destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires were a mosque, a synagogue, a Catholic parish and a half-dozen Protestant churches. Many members of these congregations were ...

Los Angeles grapples with rising theft risks as evacuation zones face increased crime. Learn how the city is responding to ...

With the wildfires moving away from Santa Monica, attention is turning to the aftermath and necessary efforts to protect consumers from both active theft and the more insidious issues of price gouging ...

Posts have appeared on the social media platform Nextdoor showing a sign placed on the windows of the popular high street ...

With the homeless crisis showing no signs whatsoever of improving, one popular bar on the Promenade has taken matters into their own hands and installed one of Stephen McMahon’s ingenious Blue Chirper ...

HEADLINE: SMDP's Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes the annual Polar Plunge, a Beatles ...

A dangerously windy start to 2025 may be in store for the Santa Monica area. The National Weather Service has issued both a High Wind Warning and Red Flag Warning for Santa Monica from Tuesday at ...

A homeless man believed to be in his late 60s was struck by a vehicle on Wilshire Boulevard on Sunday evening, but authorities say that he's expected to survive his injuries. The incident occurred ...

Art is in the eye of the beholder, at least that’s what Margaret Wolfe Hungerford believed in 1876, but it’s unquestionably subjective. And art takes many different forms and can be displayed in many ...

On Sunday, December 22, 2024, at approximately 6:40 p.m., Police Department officers responded to the scene of a fatal ...

Two wildly audacious films — Brady Corbet's 215-minute postwar epic "The Brutalist" and Jacques Audiard's Spanish language, genre-shifting trans musical "Emilia Perez" — won top honors at the ...