Santa Monicans who love their local businesses have just two weeks left to help their favorite storefronts win the city’s annual Most Loved contest. Voting is open at smdp.com/vote across all categories and ends on March 14. Winners of Santa Monica's Most Loved contest earn far more than bragging rights. They're feted at the annual| Santa Monica Daily Press - Santa Monica's trusted source of essential news fo...
The sharp backlash to the early weeks of the second Donald Trump administration has been felt in Los Angeles, but perhaps no group has been more vocal than local students. On Thursday, over 50 Samohi students made a beeline from campus to Santa Monica City Hall, staging a protest against the Trump administration’s executive actions| Santa Monica Daily Press - Santa Monica's trusted source of essential news fo...
Swedish flat-packed furniture pioneer IKEA opened its first outlet-of-sorts on Wilshire Blvd on Monday morning in an attempt to make the brand more convenient and accessible for folk in Santa Monica. Prior to this, customers have either had to pay for delivery to their door or make a pilgrimage down to Carson, or over to| Santa Monica Daily Press - Santa Monica's trusted source of essential news fo...
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District officials heard students loud and clear this month, giving their full support towards their act of peaceful defiance. After the Feb. 6 walkout by both Samohi and Malibu High School students to protest the orders of the Donald Trump administration, SMMUSD staff had a chance to applaud the group for| Santa Monica Daily Press - Santa Monica's trusted source of essential news fo...
After demolishing Parking Structure 3 to make way for affordable housing in 2022, Council will debate the conversion of two more parking facilities on Tuesday night. Item 11A on the agenda asks to declare several pieces of public property as “surplus land” and begin the application process for developers hoping to build housing on those| Santa Monica Daily Press - Santa Monica's trusted source of essential news fo...