Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A passing shopper is reflected in the window of a vacant store on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. (Genaro Molina/Los ...

A proposal approved by the Santa Monica City Council would turn the Third Street Promenade into an entertainment zone by allowing visitors to drink outside. The proposal is an attempt to revive the ...

Santa Monica is shaking things up to bring more life and more people back to the Third Street Promenade with the approval of a proposal that will let visitors sip alcoholic drinks as they stroll ...

It’s last call at a beloved bar at one of Downtown Santa Monica’s best-known corners — the latest high-profile fatality in an ongoing apocalypse turning the commercial core of the upscale beachside ...

Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade once hosted with multitudes of shoppers, people watchers and patrons of street performers a couple of blocks from the beach. Though an estimated 10 million people ...

The city of Santa Monica plans to designate the Third street Promenade as an open container area. The goal is to attract more visitors, but some business owners are concerned it’ll do the opposite.

Imagine walking down Santa Monica's iconic Third Street Promenade with a drink in hand and soaking in the Southern California sun. That could be a reality soon, after city leaders gave the green light ...

A Venice man said he was knocked to the ground and injured by a stranger on the Third Street Promenade during a busy Mother’s Day afternoon, in what he described as an unprovoked and jarring assault ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (CNS) -- Santa Monica's Entertainment Zone, which allows for outdoor drinking of alcohol along part of the city's Third Street Promenade, opens Friday with a soft launch. Adults ...

A shopper, is caught in the reflection of a window of a vacant store on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times) Once Santa's Monica's signature destination for ...