This ballot measure would impose the city’s gross receipts tax on unlicensed marijuana dispensaries and other cannabis businesses. Shall an ordinance be adopted to apply the City's existing cannabis ...

Measuring a giant python becomes a tense and unusual challenge when it takes four people just to keep the snake under control. What sounds like a simple task quickly turns into a careful operation, ...

Some Shakespeare plays fit neatly into a category. “Measure for Measure” does not. Often labeled one of Shakespeare's "problem plays," it refuses to settle comfortably into comedy or tragedy. Instead, ...

Like “All’s Well That Ends Well,” the work of William Shakespeare that opened the Old Globe’s Summer Shakespeare season last year, “Measure for Measure” is widely regarded as one of the Bard’s ...

DEAR ABBY: Every year for birthdays and holidays, my in-laws give cash as gifts to their children and their spouses. Should I be hurt that my in-laws always give an equal amount to my brothers-in-law ...

The "yes" vote for Measure ER, a proposal to increase Los Angeles County's sales tax by a half-cent, was ahead of the "no" vote after coming from behind, the latest vote count by LA County Registrar's ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Measure ER — a proposed half-percent ...

A Los Angeles-based Justice Department official late Friday debunked a baseless claim of a discrepancy in the vote count of the city’s mayoral race that has circulated on social media. The claim, ...

Santa Clara County voters — whose landscape changed from the largely agricultural “Valley of Heart’s Delight” in the 1950s to the sprawling freeways, office buildings and subdivisions of the 1960s and ...

MARTINEZ — A tax measure Contra Costa County officials have said is needed to protect the local health system is far behind in support needed for approval, according to early results. According to ...

Measure V remained on a knife’s edge Wednesday morning, with 52% of counted ballots opposed and 48% in favor, according to updated Yolo County election results, with a margin of less than 500 votes.