The city hopes to increase efficiency and commuter safety in what is expected to be the first in a long line of changes to public infrastructure

The Big Blue Bus installs a new sensory system on bus routes for pedestrian and cyclist safety

Santa Monica College Student Health Services is raising awareness and urging prevention of Hepatitis A since the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced an outbreak of 10 cases on Tuesday September 19, 2017.

In an urgent need for blood donations, the American Red Cross is planning to host several blood drives in the coming weeks. Red Cross officials say donated blood is being shipped and used as fast as it is being gathered. “The blood supply is like a cell phone battery, it constantly needs recharging,” said Nick Gehrig, the communications director of Red Cross Blood Services.

An analysis of SMC's newest and reimagined campus

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