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Election Over? Whoa Hold Up a Minute-Second Seat Still a Horse Race
Alex Fisch was elected to the Culver City City Council by voters on Tuesday. However with 1548 VBM and Provisional ballots still to be county Daniel Lee's 170 vote lead over Albert Vera could be erase...
CUT POLICE & FIRE?
Through the various candidates' forums held throughout the city, we have put together a compilation on the four candidates with their views and positions on matters affecting Culver City While the...
Retiring Mayor Takes a Look Back
Culver City Mayor Jeff Cooper was beaming as he addressed over 400 residents and business people on Tuesday at the annual Mayor's luncheon. "Culver City is at the cutting edge of cities around the...
City Council Race Turns Ugly
The Culver City Observer has received an anonymous, inflammatory flyer that blasted two of the City Council candidates as lackeys of the local chamber of commerce. The campaign flyer, which was...
Services Held For Former Mayor Steven Rose
When I received the call on Monday at 2:40 pm that my good friend Steven Rose had succumbed to leukemia it felt like someone took the air out of the room I was in. Like many others in Culver City we...
Burglary Suspects Sought
The Culver City Police Department is seeking the public's help in identifying two burglary suspects who burglarized a house in the studio estates section of Culver City last Saturday night. According...
Four Vie For Two Culver City Council Seats
Jeremy Green, Culver City Clerk announced that four residents have been certified as candidates for the Office of City Council Member to be elected by the voters of the City of Culver City. Voter...
ICE Agents Raid Culver City 7-Eleven
Despite Culver City declaring itself a “Sanctuary City” ICE agents raided one undisclosed Culver City 7/11 Wednesday. Agents descended on nearly 100 7-Eleven locations across the nation. DHS Sec...
Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley – Thomas Resigns
Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley Thomas whose 54th Assembly district includes Culver City announced last week that he was resigning his seat effective December 31 due to undisclosed health issues. He had...
Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley – Thomas Resigns
Culver City Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley Thomas announced today (Wednesday) that he was resigning his seat effective December 31 due to undisclosed health issues. He had previously taken a two-week...
Culver Fire Dept. Responds to Fires
Culver City sent Engine 41 with four firefighters to help fight the Thomas Fire in Ventura County this week. The engine was part of a strike team composed for units from Culver City, Santa Monica and...
Police Chase Ends in Culver City Crash
Santa Monica Police pursed an assault subject into Culver City on Monday. According to Lt. Saul Rodriguez of the Santa Monica Police Department, at approximately 2:40 pm Oscar Garcia, 38, allegedly...
Residents Balk at 30 New Oil Wells and Fracking
After receiving numerous requests from residents the Culver City City Council granted a 120-day extension of the public review period for the submission of written comments on the Inglewood Oil Field...
Amazon Studios Will Move to Iconic Culver Studios
Amazon has announced plans to move into The Culver Studios, one of the most iconic television and movie studios located in Culver City. Amazon Studios, IMDb, Amazon Video and World Wide Advertising...
Las Vegas Shooting Victim Recovering
Kortney Spencer, a speech teacher at Farragut Elementary School in Culver City, was one of a reported 500 victims in the Las Vegas Shooting on October 1. Her sister Jodi Spencer Goldberg has set up a...
Marijuana Stores Move Closer to Reality
By Stephen Hadland Observer Publisher Culver City has moved one step closer to allowing the sale, distribution and cultivation of marijuana in Culver City. The voters of California approved the...
Justice For Justice Culver Man gets Five Years for Spying
Gregory Allen Justice, 49 of Culver City who worked for a defense contractor was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for his guilty plea to economic espionage and violating the Arms Export...
Council Bans Leaf BlowersWill Cost City $1,000,000
The city council effectively banned leaf blowers that were above 65 decibels in five years. Residents complained about the noise and chemical pollution the blowers caused. All the speakers spoke in...
Gubernatorial Hopeful Speaks in Culver City
Assemblyman Travis Allen spoke before the 54th Assembly District Republican Central Committee last Tuesday evening. Reinvigorated by the efforts of the chair of the 54th AD Central Committee Bret...
SHOCKER School Board Fires Superintendent
It what can only be described as a shocking development in Culver City Schools, the board decided to end Dr. Josh Arnold's tenure as Superintendent of School. Citing the lack of "shared vision"...
MURDER FOR HIRE Culver City Man Accused of Hiring Drug Dealer to Murder Associate
The Los Angeles Times reported this week that Homeland Security investigators in New Orleans were listening to phone calls made by a suspected Los Angeles drug dealer last year when they heard the...
CRISIS IN THE SCHOOL Linwood Howe Principal Withdraws Resignation
Dr. Kim Indelicato, principal at Linwood E. Howe Elementary School, withdrew her resignation shortly after resigning due to an undisclosed dispute with the school district. The undisclosed dispute...
Bass Blasts President on Climate Change Accord Trump Dumps Paris Accord calling it a "Job Killer
During the 1016 Presidential Campaign then candidate Donald Trump dismissed the Global Warming saying "it's called weather folks." Today the reaction from Democrats in the House of Representatives...
Culver Planning Commissioner Scott Wyant Succumbs
Culver City Planning Commissioner Scott Wyant died Thursday morning at home after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 65. Wyant was an unsuccessful candidate for city council last year and had annou...
Outgoing Mayor Clarke Backs Direct Election of Mayor Cooper Elected Mayor, Small Vice-Mayor
Outgoing Mayor Jim Clarke said in his final remarks before returning to his seat on the city council, “I loved being Mayor.” He also stressed that his top priorities for the past year have been, civ...