May 9, 2026 • The passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act marked what many historians mark as the actual beginning of democracy in the US. But last week the Supreme Court gutted what was left of the ...

A new survey of U.S. ZIP codes with the highest influx of new residents showed one spot in Sacramento is the hottest place to move to in the state. Moving resource website MovingPlace published its ...

Placer County Code Enforcement Services will expand evening and weekend operations in May. The county’s after-hours “Unpermitted Events Hotline” will operate weekends and holidays from 5 p.m. Friday ...

Three of South Africa’s largest law firms will ask the Gauteng High Court next week to set aside the legal sector’s black economic empowerment (BEE) code, arguing that it is unlawful, impractical and ...

The Modesto City Schools Board of Education approved an update of the student conduct code to include its new full-day cellphone policy. The updated conduct code will state that the ban is in effect ...

With a steady hand, 91-year-old Ray Goldwire presses a jagged knife through rows of honey-filled frames. The wax cracks as sweet, golden nectar spills into a plastic pail below. The blade scrapes ...

Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the ...

The country's leading legal experts were present in the public gallery of the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Monday to present their legal arguments in the legal challenge against and for the BEE ...

The Building Green global dataset collects data on building energy codes and standards applicable to new and existing buildings, as well as their enforcement mechanisms and levels of compliance. The ...

Ryan Sekera, a sixth grade student from Ridgeview Elementary in Placer County, and Praneet Aditya Kumaravel, a ninth grade student from Millennium High School in San Joaquin County, are this year’s ...

A new approach to leadership for the team at the top by Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk and Steve Berez “Brian Johnson” is the chief executive of a major consumer-goods company that has been remarkably ...