Dotted along the coast of Venice Beach with a backdrop of grey skies, early morning beachgoers for miles carried buckets and scanned the sands. Instead of filling their buckets with typical beach treasures such as shells, stones, or the occasional starfish, these shore hunters were filling them with cigarette filters, straws, and plastic bottle caps.

As the SMC Textbook Buyback Confuses Students, Many Seek Alternatives.

"It makes it a lot less a highway and more a parking lot," Gigi Grase said.

Efforts towards providing equal pay between genders were set back on August 28, 2017, when the Trump administration halted an Obama-era rule requiring businesses to report their employees' wages by gender, race, and ethnicity. The administration argued that the data collection requirement would be both "enormously burdensome" to companies and ineffective in addressing the gender wage gap.

Every Sunday night a dedicated group of vegan activists gather outside a gaudily painted factory depicting fat, happy pigs rolling around in meadows while clown-like farmers wearing overalls trip over wheelbarrows and tractors trying to catch these naughty animals. Above these painted walls, ominous smoke billows from chimneys and a thick, feral smell lingers.

Demonstrators take to the streets of LA to #DefendDACA.

SMPD responds to anonymous bomb threat calls, causing for an evacuation at the Santa Monica Pier

Upset, angry, worried, but hopeful. SMC students discuss what DACA means to them.

Santa Monica College students march to confront their frustrations with SMC in light of the Trump Administration's decision to end DACA

SMC responds with community in reaction to the Trump Administration's decision to end DACA

The La Tuna Fire, known as LA's largest fire by acreage, ends its fiery trail.

Los Angeles City Council replaces Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day in a historic vote to change the city calendar.

Chester Bennington has passed, marking yet another sad loss this year from a defining generation of rock music.

Memorial Day, the last Monday of May, is a day to remember those who have fallen while fighting to protect our freedom.

From Monday, May 22 to Thursday, May 25, SMC hosted its first official Pride Week, a week of on-campus events made to celebrate and support the LGBTQ+ community.

While most students are struggling to enroll in classes and earn their A’s, some students at Santa Monica College have managed to purchase their guaranteed success, gift-wrapped in packages for thousands of dollars. For a price, these students can pay to enroll in “easy-A” courses and even skip school -- paid impersonators could take their courses for them.

Watch the 7th episode of the Santa Monica Minute.

Three suspects who were followed by undercover investigators were arrested on the intersection of Pico and 16th on Wednesday, May 24, 2017.

Watch the Pride Week special edition of the Santa Monica Minute.