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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Where to begin here: At the invite-only brunch with Tony Alva and Wynn Miller's family, or telling Mark Gonzales that the shirt I was wearing was a remake of the one he wore in Video Days? Who knew so ...