Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Feb. 4, and I’m your guest host, Kim Christensen. When I moved to Southern California in the mid-1980s, Venice Beach ...

A group of Venice Beach, California, residents warned city leadership they could be liable for multimillion-dollar lawsuit payouts for not enforcing laws banning overnight homeless encampments. An ...

Located a less than 3 miles south of Santa Monica Pier, Venice Beach stretches for 3 miles along the Pacific Ocean and is bordered by Santa Monica, Culver City and Marina del Rey. It features the ...

With its famous Boardwalk, charming canals, and mythical Abbot Kinney Boulevard, the iconic neighborhood of Venice, California is the capital of West Coast cool. A palm tree-lined community nestled ...

A new video shows a violent incident breaking out at a homeless encampment in California's Venice Beach boardwalk. The video, posted to Twitter by an account named Venice Beach Boardwalk, was captured ...

VENICE - The Los Angeles coast will soon return to television screens, once again hosting the iconic Baywatch franchise as it readies a major reboot. Officials have touted the project as both a ...

With its elegant, art-focused hospitality, NeueHouse has just opened its third West Coast location in Venice Beach, California, nipping at the heels of Soho House. Like its competitor, NeueHouse has ...

A brawl broke out on the Venice Beach Boardwalk in California among three seemingly homeless men. "It’s not an uncommon sight," Adam Merchant, assistant manager of the Fig Tree Restaurant in Venice, ...

Voodoo Doughnut, the iconic purveyor of unique and handcrafted doughnuts, is proud to continue its partnership with the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation (LAFD). Voodoo Doughnut recently opened ...

Hundreds of unhoused people camp along its popular boardwalk. But now it's summer. Tourism is back, and politicians have plans to clear the area. In Los Angeles, the world famous Venice Beach is now ...