The City Manager will oversee an annual budget of $765 million and an executive team that includes an Assistant City Manager, a Deputy City Manager and eleven department directors.

Last year, the median Maximum Allowable Rent (MAR) rose by $58 to $1,853 for a rent control studio, by $86 to $2,295 for a ...

The Senate Housing Committee voted 4 to 3 to reject SB 677, a bill sponsored by Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) to streamline a housing law he sponsored allowing duplexes to be built on single-family ...

I was unable to attend this year’s annual Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) conference held in Pasadena last month. I was happy to read about the conference when The Lookout recently ran Mr.

Nov. 9-- On a gray Sunday afternoon, a curious group of passersby gather round a crime scene. A woman lies face down, an axe protruding from her back. She is draped in the American flag and holds a ...

April 22, 2025 -- The Santa Monica College Planetarium next month will will eplore radio astronoomy and look back at the history of the Hubble Space Telescope that has been circling Earth for 35 years ...

April 22, 2025 -- For the first time since the devastating Palisades Fire drove them from their high school in January, more than 2,500 students flocked to a quickly constructed campus in Downtown ...

April 21, 2025 -- Santa Monica will celebrate Earth Day on Tuesday with free bus rides, educational events and special flashing colors on the world's only solar powered Ferris Wheel. Pacific Park's ...

April 21, 2025 -- A man and a woman were stabbed on the beach south of the Pier in the early morning hours Saturday, and one of the two suspects has been arrested for attempted murder, according to ...