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The Santa Monica Daily Press is among the few companies selected for the Google News Initiative’s highly competitive accelerator program

While all eyes are on the emergency construction project at John Muir/SMASH, preplanned projects have continued

The City will spend $200,000 on a new vendor to provide overnight security in ten city owned parking structures

A recently agreed upon increase in teacher salaries will leave the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) in the red by about $20 million this year but school officials said the overall budget projections are more beige in color. In a budget updated presented to the SMMUSD Board last week, district staff said SMMUSD will […]

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Early in-person voting is now open in Santa Monica at St Anne Church and Shrine. The church is the only early voting location in the City and all other in-person voting locations will open on November 5. Voters can speed up their check-in times at Vote Centers by scanning a Quick Check-in Code. After entering […]

The City of Santa Monica would like you to stop parking like a jerk. Starting Nov. 1, the police department’s Traffic Services Divisions will begin enforcing a section of the city’s municipal code prohibiting drivers from parking on any sidewalk, parkway, or curb, other than a driveway or roadway. According to City Hall, a […]

Santa Monica resident Marlon Bonds was killed by Rancho Cucamonga police on Sept. 24 after he drove his car into an officer and then approached him with a knife. According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department at approximately 7:14 p.m., deputies with the Rancho Cucamonga Police Department conducted a traffic stop on a Toyota […]

A high school student was transported to a local hospital on Monday with cuts and abrasions following a fight that occurred in the alley behind Santa Monica High School. According to SMPD, officers are still looking for the suspects in the altercation which was videotaped by witnesses and students. The video shows several suspects striking […]

Santa Monica residents have until Monday, Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. to apply for the city’s one-time rent relief program. Council budgeted $750,000 for the Rent Control Adjustment Relief (RCAR) program in August to help tenants in rent-controlled units who were unable to afford their annual rent increases…