California’s PACE Program Helps Seniors Age at Home
You’ve likely never heard of PACE, but for thousands of California seniors, it’s the reason they’re still living at home. PACE stands for Program of All Inclusive Care for the…
Newsletter: Dec 26, 2025
Front & Center Trader Joe's buys former Rite Aid for $22 million Trader Joe's has purchased the former Rite Aid property at 1331 Wilshire Blvd. for $22 million. The acquisition…
LA County Declares Emergency as Winter Storm Batters Region
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has issued a local emergency proclamation as a powerful winter storm continued to pummel the region with heavy rain and strong winds, threatening…
Mayor Bass got some of LA’s homeless people indoors. Will it matter to voters?
By Jim Newton, CalMatters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass staked her political future on a promise: As a…
Santa Monica’s 2025 Began with Catastrophic Palisades Fire
January Homegrown homeless deterrent device, the Blue Chirper, makes Promenade debut A Santa Monica resident created the “Blue Chirper,” a device emitting a high-pitched sound to deter loiterers. The device…
What Americans think about giving cash as holiday gifts, according to a new AP-NORC poll
Welcome to exhausted America 2025: Most adults are more than a little fine with doling out cash as gifts, and many plan to be asleep before midnight on New Year’s…
Trader Joe’s Buys Wilshire Rite Aid for $22M
Trader Joe’s has purchased a former Rite Aid drugstore at 1331 Wilshire Blvd. for $22 million, according to public records and county assessor data. The Monrovia-based grocer acquired the 17,800-square-foot…
Santa Monica New Year’s Eve Events & Christmas Dining 2023
SUB HEAD: SMDP’s Weekly Guide to Food & Entertainment Goings-On In & Around Town includes Christmas and New Years restaurant offerings, New Years parties, Mariah Carey’s Holiday Bar, and much…
Newsletter: Dec 24, 2025
It's the day before Christmas and you know what that means? Crazed last-minute shoppers driving like Mad Max from store to store — and in the pouring rain, no less.…
Malibu Approves $50M PCH Safety Plan Amid Traffic Crisis
As a national traffic safety report reveals that 112 people are killed on American roadways every day, Malibu is moving forward with more than $50 million in safety improvements to…