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School districts in Southern California have announced closures in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus.

Sunshine lured crowds to California beaches and parks on Sunday despite a statewide stay-at-home order, prompting more closures as officials announced plans to ramp up testing procedures for the coronavirus.

If you have been living under a rock, you would’ve thought it was a typical sunny weekend at the beach. The LA County coastline was packed with people ignoring the mandate to social-distance and congesting the bike path, beaches, and hiking trails.

An Apple store employee who works at the Third Street Promenade location in Santa Monica has tested positive for COVID-19, it was announced Friday. 

The executive director of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy said in remarks published Tuesday that he's willing to take matters into his own hands and spend his own money to prevent the death of the last remaining male mountain lion in the area after a young mountain lion that attacked a dozen animals over two years was legally killed by the landowner whose livestock had been attacked.

An 8-year-old boy, through his mother, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District alleging that the district failed to protect him from persistent and harmful bullying at Grant Elementary School in Santa Monica.

A unique, brand-new partnership between the state and a non-profit organization aims to help farmers cut back on greenhouse gasses. 

January 16 marks International Hot & Spicy Food Day -- a day when the world's heat-seekers can take their eating to the extreme.

A 90-year-old woman that went missing on Wednesday in Santa Monica has been found, according to the Santa Monica Police Department.  

A Sacramento man is waiting to be transported back to Los Angeles County to face criminal charges stemming from a brutal attack on an elderly woman on Nov. 16.

Airbnb reached a settlement with Santa Monica Tuesday to collect money from renters for affordable housing in the city and ensure compliance with strict short-term rental rules, the city reported.

Several protests were held in Los Angeles County to coincide with Black Friday.

At least one person was detained after a protest against President Donald Trump on the Santa Monica Pier turned chaotic when the demonstrators were assaulted by a pro-Trump crowd, authorities said.

Police investigated a shooting at the Santa Monica Pier that left one person injured late Wednesday night.

A mountain lion that was being tracked by National Park Service researchers and was found dead in the Santa Monica Mountains died from ingesting rat poison, which was also detected in the system of a second lion whose body was discovered a month earlier, officials said Tuesday.

A pop-up restaurant for the fans of the popular teen film, "Mean Girls," opened in Santa Monica for only six days in October 2019, and if you missed it then, you're in luck. Due to an overwhelming response, the restaurant will be coming back and will debut once again in April 2020.

Reports of a suspicious device found in Santa Monica prompted the closure of several streets. 

A man armed with a rifle is in custody after barricading himself behind a dumpster in a Santa Monica alley. 

Santa Monica police investigated a suspicious device left in a trash can in the 1400 block of 3rd Street Promenade Monday evening.

A call of a burglary in progress led to a suspect being shot by police in Santa Monica Thursday evening.