The Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD) board of trustees is looking to cut $5.56 million from its budget for 2025-’26 and another $222,000 in 2026-’27 to get to a 3% ...

Local school districts are preparing for what they see as threats to students who are immigrants and who may be undocumented.

A high-tech sensor designed and built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has now traveled farther than 250 ...

After nearly six years at the helm of Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley in Pleasanton as president and CEO, Rick Shumway has ...

Livermore’s Las Positas Vineyards (LPV) made history when it’s 2023 Albariño Estate Reserve wine won first place in the White ...

As Super Bowl Sunday nears, it’s worth considering the staggering number of chickens sacrificed for a single day of indulgence — an estimated 375 million, just for wings. This annual ...

The Dublin Unified School District (DUSD) is threatening severe consequences and disciplinary action for students caught participating this year in the senior game “Assassin.” ...

Deportation of millions of illegal immigrants for crimes as small as shoplifting has begun. Mass deportations will require identifying the deportees, capturing them, interning them, and deporting them ...

Students at Dougherty Elementary School in Dublin celebrate the Lunar New Year on Jan. 27, with performers from LionDanceME. Jan. 29 marked the beginning of the Year of the Snake ...

Vaccination rates in the U.S. for the most common childhood diseases have been declining since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to ...

Multiple thanks to The Independent for your help in publicizing the Make A Difference for Festival. We appreciated the advance article, which undoubtedly was part of the reason we ...

A US passenger jet carrying 64 people crashed into Washington's Potomac River after colliding midair with a military ...