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Midway Water System lawyers are asking a Santa Rosa judge for a new trial in a case where the utility was held primarily responsible for a piping misconnection that allowed raw sewage to enter homes ...

Policies meant to lure importers to Hainan, a resort island off China’s coast, signal an opening up, Beijing says. One expert calls it a “bait and switch.” Visitors at an exhibition center promoting ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani put New York City’s troubled jail system on the clock to end solitary confinement — issuing yet another executive order to unravel his predecessor’s actions. Mamdani signed an ...

Satellites have revealed a flurry of new land reclamation activity at a disputed reef in the South China Sea’s Paracel Islands, suggesting China is expanding an outpost there. China claims sovereignty ...

A year ago at this time, the Boston Celtics had a starting lineup of Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Kristaps Porzingis, Al Horford and Jrue Holiday. The Celtics were in second place in the Eastern ...

I ask Andy Cory how he came to live on the remote South Pacific island of Niue tending hives abuzz with one of the world’s most isolated populations of honeybees. A 100-square-mile dot on the map ...

As the Trump administration steadily hypes the benefits it sees from its monthslong immigration enforcement surge in Illinois, federal officials have been less eager to address the other side of the ...

The Main Street Bridge on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. Construction on the 1.5 mile bypass channel that will cut underneath the Main Street Bridge is expected to begin summer of 2026. Amanda McCoy ...