New York City has the Empire State Building, Hollywood has cutout letters strung across a hillside, and Santa Monica has its pier: a single, focus-pulling element that looms large in the public ...

The 117-million-gallon reservoir in the heart of Pacific Palisades was 25% full when additional leaks were found in its floating cover. The reservoir is expected to be back online in June.

Spencer Jochim hopes Santa has deep pockets in that red suit of his. The 7-year-old Horace, N.D., boy has on his Christmas wish list an Xbox 360, a PlayStation 2 and the video game Halo.

Watch below. “Our ‘Must be Santa’ video is now up on YouTube!,” Kurt says. “We put this video out last year at, like, 5pm on Christmas evening (only on my Insta G).

Donning a Santa hat and, seemingly, a wig, Dylan asks his party goers a series of questions. The answer each time is, of course, Santa Claus. Who’s got a beard that’s long and white?

And Santa wouldn ’ t be Santa if he wasn ’ t carrying a huge sack of toys. If each child gets one toy, averaging 2 pounds each, that must be multiplied by 330 million children.

If God doesn’t exist, by the same logic, Santa must be made up as well. Perhaps this was the moment I became a philosopher (though I should say that as an adult, I no longer think that the ...

The API failed to deliver the resource. Operation Santa, the United States Postal Service's 111-year-old program, started earlier this year. Letters to Santa must be postmarked by Dec. 11.