Halloween is almost here, and you know what that means: that Christmas is also almost here — or at least close enough for the most ambitious retailers to start monkey-flinging porducts at us like so ...

In the two-and-a-half weeks leading up to Christmas, Catalan families will keep a log in the home with a face painted on it.

A fascinating if dismal report of the state of Santa Barbara County aquifers went to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, prompting an odd “poop-fest” of a discussion of toilet-to-tap options, which ...