A Santa Monica city councilman was attacked July 16 around 2:45 p.m. while walking along the Third Street Promenade, an outdoor dining and shopping street, with his wife after asking a man he believed to be homeless to pick up his trash. “I asked him if he could pick up the trash and put it…

SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Two girls suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds at a large party on a Santa Monica beach, authorities said July 9. At about 9:20 p.m. Friday, multiple officers responded to a large party in “the 2700 block of the Santa Monica beach,” the Santa Monica Police Department reported. “As they were approaching, officers heard multiple…

Even though the topics weren’t on the Santa Monica City Council’s agenda, over a dozen Santa Monica residents addressed the council June 13 over their concerns regarding an increase in crime and homelessness that they said has left some fearful to walk the streets. John Farzam, co-owner of the Shore Hotel—located on Pacific Coast Highway…

Some residents in Santa Monica, an idyllic beach town in Southern California, are pushing for an outdoor county-operated program, which distributes clean syringes weekly to homeless drug users near the city’s parks, to be moved indoors to a county-owned facility. The “overdose prevention program”—which is overseen by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s…

Some residents in Santa Monica, an idyllic beach town in Southern California, are pushing for an outdoor county-operated program, which distributes clean syringes weekly to homeless drug users near the city’s parks, to be moved indoors to a county-owned facility. The “overdose prevention program”—which is overseen by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health’s…

VENICE, Calif.—A manhunt for two armed and masked carjacking suspects who allegedly fired shots while stealing a woman’s car at gunpoint near a Santa Monica parking lot near the Venice border continues April 5 morning. Santa Monica Police Department officers initially responded at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday to the 100 block of Main Street regarding reports…

A needle exchange program for drug users sanctioned by the Los Angeles County of Public Health operating in a handful of Santa Monica’s public spaces has sparked outrage among a coalition of business owners and residents who are calling on the county to move it indoors. The group claims that rather than curbing drug use,…

A needle exchange program for drug users sanctioned by the Los Angeles County of Public Health operating in a handful of Santa Monica’s public spaces has sparked outrage among a coalition of business owners and residents who are calling on the county to move it indoors. The group claims that rather than curbing drug use,…

SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Two men were facing possible attempted murder charges Jan. 25 for their alleged involvement in a shooting and traffic crash in Santa Monica, police said. The incident occurred at about 3:40 p.m. Tuesday near Sixth Street and Broadway, said Lt. Rudy Flores of the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD). Manuel Jaramillo-Heredia, 52, of…

The “Santa Monica is Not Safe” billboard that first appeared in December returned to the Third Street Promenade, a popular shopping center in downtown Santa Monica on Jan. 15. The group of about 400 property and business owners behind the billboard—the Santa Monica Coalition—financed the sign’s exhibition after the group’s initial funding expired and the…