Santa Monica News

Swimmers and surfers in Southern California enjoyed cleaner beach water this year, likely due to one of the driest winters on record in the region, according to Santa Monica-based Heal the Bay's 2012-13 study released Wednesday.

May 22, 2013 - MARINA DEL RAY, Calif. -- On Sun, June 2nd @ 6:45pm "RATPACK COMEDY" strikes again, hosting yet another star-studded lineup at Westside Comedy Theater.

Santa Monica will spend some $150 million for public safety and for employee pensions -- nearly half of the General Fund expenses -- under a proposed budget unveiled Monday for the upcoming fiscal year, which starts July 1. According to this year's proposed budget, which the City Council will take up next Tuesday, City services will be paid from a ... (more)

The 22nd Annual Santa Monica Festival is introducing the talented locals, neighborhood services, top chefs, live entertainment, fun shops and the people of Santa Monica that make this such a unique and innovative city, Saturday, June 1, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. at Clover Park.

After a recent rough patch, one of TV's favorite families - the Osbournes - may be reuniting under the same roof.

If you need a feel-good story to break up the flood of horrifying tornado news, check THIS out: Zach Galifianakis 's date to this week's premiere of "The Hangover Part III" was Elizabeth "Mimi" Haist, a formerly homeless octogenarian whom the comedian has been helping to support for the past two years.

Sandy Valdivieso and her husband intended to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal.

One day after being found guilty of falsely imprisoning three women in his Bel Air home, the Girls Gone Wild founder in an exclusive interview railed against "mentally f--king retarded" jurors, "piece of sh-t" Steve Wynn and his legions of "jealous" critics: "Look at their penis and tell me if it's small." "I want that jury to know that each and ... (more)

The Gamasutra Job Board is the most diverse, active and established board of its kind for the video game industry! Here is just one of the many, many positions being advertised right now.

Prosecutors and lawyers for reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger are due in court to update a judge on the case two weeks before Bulger's racketeering trial is scheduled to begin.

For its next-gen debut, Infinity Ward isn't trying to reinvent the wheel. Instead it's making sure that wheel is perfectly, flawlessly round.

Stardate December 10, 2012. A group of journalists are invited to Bad Robot in Santa Monica, CA to learn a little bit more about J.J. Abrams ' Star Trek Into Darkness .

Not everyone has Zack Galifianakis renting an apartment for them, or Renee Zellweger paying to furnish it.

Northbound traffic on the San Diego Freeway will be blocked just after midnight Sunday and Monday nights, and remain closed until 5 a.m. Monday and Tuesday, Metro officials announced today.

Silicon Beach is a 3-mile region in the Los Angeles metropolitan area rich in Internet technology-related startup companies.

File - Construction workers build new homes in the Rosedale housing project in Azusa on Dec.

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 .