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Flight activity over Mar Vista and East Venice has thrust Santa Monica Airport back into the center of a long-running political fight that stretches well beyond aircraft noise into larger

A new neighborhood fight unfolding along the edge of the Santa Monica Airport is exposing larger tensions over who gets to shape the future of one of the most contested

Santa Monica officials are celebrating the launch of a new high tech policing hub they say will transform how the city responds to crime. The Santa Monica Police Department’s newly

Los Angeles privatized its film permit office in 1995 to cut red tape. What it built instead was a revenue machine for LAPD. When the Baywatch reboot showed up at

Just weeks after the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission quietly removed references to climate change and disadvantaged communities from its annual work plan, local governments in other parts of the

Santa Monica will pay $350,000 to the descendants of Silas White, the Black entrepreneur who tried to build the Ebony Beach Club in the late 1950s only to have the

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