Jethi, a freshman at Amador Valley High (AVH), was named 2025 Humane Student of the Year by Animalearn, a national nonprofit ...

In response to wetter storms and aging infrastructure, the Zone 7 Water Agency last week began soliciting public feedback on its new flood-management plan. The feedback, along with ...

A creative collaboration between local artists and clean-air transportation organizations and their supporters has taken flight in an expansive new mural occupying the side of an immense hangar ...

Brad Hirst, the owner of Equity Enterprises, and Nancy and Gary Harrington, long-time supporters of the arts in Pleasanton, ...

This month, the Tri-Valley Conservancy (TVC) awarded its first low-interest loan through a new program to revitalize south ...

Those who do not “have to” file tax returns are left out. Money runs everything. BUT, politicians receive so many “direct” contributions from large donors, that for us to expect conscientious action ...

I don’t think recent Minneapolis events are understood. For that, some of Minnesota itself needs to be known. I am of ...

Whenever I, and many others, criticize Donald Trump, we are told we suffer from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The implication ...

Two words have been swirling around together in my head lately: accountability and opportunity cost (OK, yeah that’s more than two words). These concepts may seem unrelated, but stay with ...

The situation with water in California has always been fraught. Ever since the postwar boom in population, the state has ...

Livermore Valley Arts (LVA) will celebrate Black History Month with a series of Friday performances at the Bankhead Theater ...

One of the program managers of the National Science Foundation told me that if you want to know what happened 10 years ago, ...