Santa Monica News

The name says it all. Santa Monica's Shangrila Hotel is a little paradise situated across the street from the Pacific Ocean and Palisades Park.

The 2013 Mini Cooper S Coupe offers more style than the conventional Mini hatchback .

The longtime girlfriend of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger lost her bid to reduce the eight-year prison sentence she received for helping Bulger during his 16 years as a fugitive.

Actress Rooney Mara is the latest spokes-model for the Calvin Klein fragrance Downtown .

A routine meeting erupted into chaos Thursday night when opponents of a proposed $225 million redevelopment project for the Fairmont Miramar Hotel demanded the floor to speak.

The northbound San Diego Freeway as well as the northbound Pasadena Freeway will be closed Friday and Saturday nights as crews repair concrete.

Santa Monica managed only two hits and once again could not get past the first round as they lost at home to Knight 8-3, knocking them out of the Division 3 playoffs.

Murdered: Juliana Redding, 21, had just posed for Maxim magazine and was preparing for her acting career to skyrocket in 2008 Jurors in Los Angeles heard this week how a beautiful 21-year-old model and actress discovered strangled in her Santa Monica apartment battled for her life.

Wearing the uniform of a Soviet officer, with medals dripping from his chest, he channels dictator Joseph Stalin and prepares to deliver a rhyming smackdown on Russia's mad monk, Grigori Rasputin.

For just $25, guests can sip and savor 25 delectable wines - and tastings are unlimited! Guests can indulge in passed hors d'oeuvres freshly prepared by M Street Kitchen's very own Executive Chef Erik Palmer.

Chef Jeremy Fox once presided over the most celebrated vegetarian menu in the country at Ubuntu in Napa.

Police investigate a threat made to the East Los Angeles College campus which prompted an evacuation on Thursday, May 16, 2013.

Robert Singer, MD, a plastic surgeon in private practice in La Jolla, CA was recently honored for his work as an educator, mentor and contributor to the specialty at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery .

Elsa Pataky and her mom Cristina took little India Rose to lunch at Kreation Kafe in Santa Monica, Calif.

When it's time to M.A.K.E. Out, you can expect it to be fresh, raw and innovative.

Producer Dr. Dre attends the Pussycat Dolls by Robin Antin Fall 2008 fashion show after party during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on March 13, 2008 in Santa Monica, California.

May is National Celiac Awareness month and what a perfect time to explore new recipes and resources.

Five years after an aspiring young model was strangled and beaten in her Santa Monica home, the woman accused of killing her is finally going to trial.

The first thing you notice about Dr. Coley King is his mustache. It's a handlebar, and he had it before handlebars were cool - three, maybe four years? Not that he'll brag about that.

In the day of the Internet-made superstar, Andy Grammer is a rarity. The 29-year-old has made a name for himself the old fashioned way: through hard work.