California lawmakers made major changes to the state’s car-buying rules this year, including a  controversial rewrite of the ...

Isolation and loneliness aren’t identical — isolation is being socially disconnected, loneliness the distress of lacking ...

After a decade of expanding health coverage and safety net programs, the Golden State took a sharp detour in 2025. As federal funding reductions and policy changes rippled through the health care ...

After raising alarms about increasingly dire blooms of cyanobacteria an advocate for cleaning up Clear Lake, drafted like-minded others who were inspired to contribute to the lake’s cleanup ...

OPINION- A friend sent me a photo of Mt. Holly in Michigan. Funny thing is, that’s where I first learned how to ski with my brother and my parents. I wore two pair of heavy socks and a pair of red ...

OPINION- Although Donald Trump’s Department of Labor announced in April 2025 that “Trump’s Golden Age puts American workers first,” that contention is contradicted by the facts.

With the restoration of the Medi-Cal eligibility asset test on Jan. 1, 2026 (back to where it existed in July 2022), some people may want to consider whether to include specific gifting provisions ...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) — Throngs of feral cats emerge from the shade of parked trucks and bushes as soon as the familiar ...

Marie Schrader said. “I think the use of the executive order has got to be stopped. It seems like these orders are commanding ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died ...

Nineteen months ago, this newspaper reported the status three local Senior Centers in Lake County. The three centers were the ...