Many Santa Monica College (SMC) students don't know the name of their student government, let alone its role in student life and affairs — especially in pandemic times.

The Corsair is holding a Candidate Forum for the Santa Monica College’s (SMC) student government, Associated Students (A.S.), elections this Sunday, March 27, at 5 p.m.

As Los Angeles County moves from the purple to red tier, Santa Monica College is preparing for a small number of people to return to campus.

Los Angeles is facing a new battle in the ongoing war against the deadly coronavirus — a rush to vaccinate residents.

A timeline of coronavirus updates in Los Angeles.

Santa Monica College (SMC) has announced that they will be offering both online and in person courses for the Fall 2021 semester. While most the classes will be held online, a “significant number” of in-person classes will be available to students for the Fall 2021 semester which begins August 30.

Election season comes to Santa Monica College.

On the evening of Feb. 22, Charter Spectrum customers in Southern California suffered an outage on their internet and TV services. The outage adds to an array of previous blackouts Spectrum already had.

New planetarium programming starts this March at Santa Monica College. Join Jim Mahon as he explores the cosmos, all from the comfort of your home.

As COVID-19 continues to ravage through communities, essential workers and high-risk individuals need vaccinations for their safety. California's COVID-19 vaccination plan, reflects that.

Roughly one out of every 475 Los Angeles County residents has died from COVID-19 over the past year.

The UK variant of COVID-19, B.1.1.7, is known to be 50% more transmittable. According to the CDC's website, "Multiple lines of evidence indicate that B.1.1.7 is more efficiently transmitted than are other SARS-CoV-2 variants. The modeled trajectory of this variant in the U.S. exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.”

Since the early 1980s, the city of Santa Monica has been making arguments to close down the Santa Monica Airport — with some citing that the airport causes increased pollution and incessant noise. The city plans to shut down Santa Monica Aiport as early as 2028.

Santa Monica College recently joined over 1,500 schools, organizations, and local governments across America, in reaffirming its commitment to tackling the climate crisis alongside the incoming Biden-Harris administration.

Santa Monica College has announced that classes for the Summer 2021 semester will be remote only.

On Jan. 11, The University of California announced plans to resume in-person classes this fall at all 10 campuses.

Democrats in Georgia are projected to flip both Republican-held U.S. Senate seats, according to the Associated Press, consolidating a unified government for the incoming Joe Biden administration. Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock defeated incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, and Democratic candidate Jon Ossof defeated Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue.

The reverberations of the 2020 election are still being felt into the new year.

Throughout 2020, significant trends appeared at both the city and state levels regarding the timelines of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and virus-related deaths.

In many California school districts, history curricula has narrated American History from a colonialist and imperialist perspective. Students of color have opened history books that haven’t been inclusive of the full identities and hard-work of their predecessors. Critics and reformists see a need for significant change in many school districts.