Calabasas also kicked off the year with the steepest rise in January rents, 4.1 percent, while the slowest was Laguna Niguel, ...

The City "may not be able to limit residential use of the Airport land post-closure if it desires to sell or lease the land to a third party, regardless of the limitations imposed by Measure LC," City ...

Free money is what we call the $1.6 million in Head Start money that currently provides seats and meals to over one third of our District’s preschoolers. The District’s plan to eliminate Head Start ...

July 22-- If you think building designs given final approval by the City’s design board are what actually end up being built in Santa Monica, think again. For almost a decade, projects approved by the ...

February 23-- Violators of the City’s sign ordinance seem to have gotten the message: In Santa Monica, City Hall is serious about code compliance, even at a high price. To the tune of nearly $40,000 ...

July 19-- After months of negotiations, the American Film Market has signed a contract with the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel that will keep the world’s largest motion picture trade show in town ...

August 14-- In a silence that can be widely viewed as fallout from the divisive Santa Monicans for Renters' Rights convention earlier this month, union organizer Kurt Petersen's name went unuttered ...

May 11-- Just as several Westside cities appear on the verge of coming together for the first time to combat homelessness, how best to get people off the street is fast turning into a divisive issue ...

July 29 – The labor advocacy group Coalition for the Living Wage -- following the lead of two educational union groups -- gave its nod Wednesday to the same Board of Education and College Board of ...

February 21-- In what could ultimately be one of the most stringent bans on smoking in California and the nation, Santa Monica officials are gearing up to enact a policy that could stamp out smoking ...

October 12-- Arguing that the health benefits will far outweigh any potential economic risks, the City Council Tuesday expanded Santa Monica's far-reaching anti-smoking laws with news cameras rolling.

May 20-- While relieving parking woes for residents near Santa Monica's only remaining industrial zone, the City Council's decision Tuesday to rope off six square blocks in the eastern edge of the ...