Spotted on the West Hollywood calendar: Nikka Costa and DJ Anthony Valadez at Summer Sounds ...

A new California law will give judges more authority to deny mental health diversion to some defendants. Diversion lets ...

Criminal proceedings in the case were suspended on July 8, 2024, when a judge granted Patel’s request for mental health ...

A resurgence of secondhand shopping, new sorting methods and policy initiatives are all poised to help shift the needle on ...

A new California law will make it harder for some individuals to qualify for the state’s mental health diversion program, ...

"We believe that the mental health diversion program is a good program. But it needs to be good for the right individual," ...

On Wednesday, the Los Olivos Community Services District Board plans to make a choice that could financially burden our ...

The California Legislature passed a bill in June to remove a critical loophole in the state's mental health diversion program. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed off on that proposal last week.

The Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers says the franchise fees charged to waste haulers, then passed on to customers, amount to ...

If nobody wants what's in your blue recycling bin, is it just trash — albeit highly reusable trash — by another name? Is there ever a point where it would make more sense to send recyclable materials ...

The King County Council has approved a $431 million supplemental budget for the 2026-2027 season. At the June 23 meeting, the ...

Marney was bruised after that call with her financial guy. “You’d think I was asking him to admit to a murder,” she told me. ...