Santa Monica News

It took 25 years to plan, and five years to build, but barricades began to come down today on the San Diego Freeway widening project across the west side of Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles City Council has given preliminary approval to an ordinance that would ban the declawing of cats.The unanimous vote Friday follows a similar action by the Beverly Hills City Council a day earlier.

Four reputed gang members were booked on suspicion of murder today in connection with a shooting at a Santa Monica park that left one man dead and prompted police to beef up patrols in the area, authorities said.

Beverly Hills is among a growing number of cities around the state that are considering proposals that would ban the declawing of cats and other animals.

OK, so L.A. has its Issan Thai restaurants, Sichuan and Shanghai style places, Tuscan trattorie and Provencal bistros, Yucatan and Oaxacan joints.

Rock band No Doubt sued video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc over the use of their likeness on its new "Band Hero" product, accusing the company of turning the rockers into a virtual karaoke act.

A guy was shot and killed last night near a popular park in Santa Monica. Cops heard the shots last night near Virginia Avenue Park, known for it's interactive water area for kids and free wi-fi access.

It includes complex visual effects sequences originally part of a series of mini-movies directed and VFX-supervised by Bruce Jones.

A tactic used by insurance companies to deny expensive behavioral therapy to autistic children has been deemed illegal by a Los Angeles judge.

Participating in 350 Day, October 24, 2009, members of Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains and Los Angeles spelled out 3-5-0 with their bicycles before riding from Santa Monica to Manhattan Beach with Congressional candidate Marcy Winograd .

Friday, October 30, 2009, by Marissa Gluck The latest dish from Eater LA, Curbed's hedonistic eating and drinking blog... WEST HOLLYWOOD : Bastide is the Phoenix of LA restaurants.

The years 1875 through 1913 of the Santa Monica Outlook , the city's former newspaper of record, are now accessible via the Santa Monica Public Library's web site at digital.smpl.org. Internet surfers can browse through individual issues of the paper or search for news articles, and even ads, containing specific words or phrases.

If Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has his way, Los Angeles County is about to embark on a commuter rail building boom the likes of which the region has never seen.

Glee co-star Cory Monteith, seen in Santa Monica, Calif., in May, returns to Alberta next month as one of the presenters at Canadian TV's Gemini Awards gala.

Footage leaked from "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" reveals that players of the upcoming video game can shoot innocent civilians in an airport in a realistic rendering of a terrorist attack.

If your little goblins or vampires are set to paint their faces this Halloween to look all the more believable, you may want to think twice, according to a new report released just in time for the holiday.

While I didn't think it the food could get much better, Whist at the Viceroy, Santa Monica, has hired a new executive chef to take over its glitzy kitchen.

In this Sept. 24, 2009 file photo, Elizabeth Taylor speaks at the Macy's Passport Fashion Show gala in Santa Monica, Calif.

Looking for something to during Halloween Week and on Halloween in Santa Monica? Try the All You Can Carry Pumpkin Patch and the 2nd Annual Montana Ave Halloween Walk .

DUICK HEADED OUT ON JUNE 2 FROM DES PLAINES AND SO FAR HAS TREKKED ABOUT 1,300 MILES OF THE 2,448-MILE STRETCH OF ROUTE 66 FROM CHICAGO TO SANTA MONICA, CALIF.