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May 29, 2025 -- Santa Monica on Tuesday hired its fifth City manager in as many years after the City Council unanimously appointed and approved a contract with Irvine City Manager Oliver Chi. Chi, who ...
May 27, 2025 -- Santa Monica is being overrun with cats and dogs, and earlier this month the City Council quietly took action to rein in the problem. In a decision approved on consent with no ...
May 27, 2025 -- A total of 254 full-time positions became vacant in the City last year as officials look for ways to recruit and retain workers, including allowing many to work from home. According to ...
February 18, 2011 -- President Barack Obama wants the media to celebrate the kids who win science bowls, and here in Santa Monica we have some of those winners. They're a team of four bright science ...
Buried in the staff report for the RAND $53 million purchase is a list of the city's ten biggest landlords, representing a total value of more than $1 billion. Actually, to be technical about it, it ...
April 29-- In a preemptive move against any future plans developers might have to super-size the city's indoor mall Downtown, some three dozen members of the Santa Monica Democratic Club voted ...
May 23, 2025 -- After a five-month search, the City Council announced Friday it has selected 45-year-old Irvine City Manager ...
May 23, 2025 -- The Santa Monica Pier is the second most polluted beach on the West Coast, topped only by Playa Blanca, a beach contaminated by untreated sewage from the Tijuana region. Released ...
May 23 , 2025 -- City Hall will be closed on Monday to celebrate Memorial Day, some parking meters won't be charging and the Big Blue Bus (BBB) will operate on weekend hours. Woodlawn Cemetery will ...