The Santa Monica Coalition, an activist group of property owners, is drumming up support to dismantle Downtown Santa Monica Inc. by dissolving the area's Property-Based Assessment District (PBAD), ...

July 30, 2025 -- Citing "emergency circumstances," the City Council Tuesday night ousted six Downtown Santa Monica board members and replaced them with temporary members that include two former mayors ...

July 29, 2025 -- The number of sex abuse cases against the City has been rising after Santa Monica's cash-strapped government paid $230 million in settlements more than two years ago.

Santa Monica spends an estimated $42.5 million a year on homeless programs and services, according to a Homelessness Study by the accounting firm Moss Adams LLP ("City Spends More than $40 Million on ...

July 25, 2025 -- President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that will have financial and practical impacts on Santa Monica's ongoing efforts to tackle homelessness.

July 28, 2025 -- An era could officially come to an end Tuesday when the City Council takes up a proposal from RAND that would allow the research firm to sell or lease most of its sprawling ...