Dear Annie: Thousands of grandparents and extended family members are stepping in to raise children in today’s world, often due to parents struggling with substance abuse. While many of us take ...

DEAR ABBY: Both my parents passed away fairly recently — three years ago for my dad and almost two for my mom. They are buried in the town where I live. All my other relatives of their ...

Danville councilmembers’ bullying of volunteers has happened before East Bay man arrested after $28,000 in stolen bikes are traced by victims The Mike’s Bikes Cat’s Hill Bicycle Race is ...

DEAR ABBY: How do I politely tell people I don’t like having anyone visit me in my home? My home is my safe haven. The energy of the outside world drains me, and I don’t want that feeling ...

Other spinoff versions of Looney Tunes remain on the service, including six seasons of 2020’s Looney Tunes Cartoons, two seasons of 2015’s New Looney Tunes (the third season and some episodes ...

Domestic cats have been living alongside humans for an estimated 10,000 years, first as rodent control and then as the couch-warmers we know and love. A far cry from the lone predator lifestyle of ...

Bruce Boyer, who previously ran for Congress, Ventura County clerk and recorder, and tried to run for county sheriff, will return to court to face four felony charges of perjury for allegedly ...

It’s been a long time – five years, to be exact – but Mimi, a green-eyed tabby cat who went missing in 2020, has come home at last. The tail, er, tale, began in August when the cat appeared ...

DEAR ABBY: While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was ...

This group of 90-year-olds were tired of being lonely, so they started a podcast ...

Emily Anthes is a science reporter who writes Pet Theory, a column about our creature companions. When my husband and I took our cat to the vet early last year, we were hoping to hear that we had ...

On one side of the windowed wall, the cats are doing their thing on green-carpeted wooden perches at varying heights on the wall. Two cats are snoozing on the highest perch. On the other side ...