06/14/11 Local dispensaries are gearing for the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup. by David Downs Bay Area dispensaries are submitting their best buds this week for judgment in the second annual High Times Medical Cannabis Cup San Francisco, hosted by the iconic counterculture magazine on Saturday, June 25 and Sunday, June 26. Called the Academy Awards of cultivation by some, the combination expo/concert ...
06/10/11 Malki Museum will hold its 47th Annual Fiesta on Sunday, May 29, beginning at 10 a.m. at the museum, 11-795 Fields Road on the Morongo Reservation in Banning.
05/28/11 More and more communities are banning cosmetic pesticide use. Find out why. The issue of cosmetic pesticides will be examined when the documentary A Chemical Reaction is shown at a special viewing May 18.
05/28/11 Randy Cammack of Banning, Teamsters International vice president, as well as president of Teamsters Joint Council 42, and principal officer of Rialto-based Teamsters Local 63, was recently honored by the San Gabriel Valley Civic Alliance with its first Labor Award for 2011.
05/24/11 A light City Council agenda lasted more than three hours Tuesday night, as members of the community showed up in force to discuss the potential regulation of leaf blowers in Sebastopol.
05/23/11 PORTLAND -- Police chief Mike Reese wants gang members, community leaders and police to sit down for a summit. He also wants a cease fire to the growing gunfire and the mayor hopes that a curfew will curb the violence. All this after yet another weekend of gang violence that left three people with gunshot wounds. More: 3 hurt in weekend gang shootings Newly enacted gun policies within city ...
05/20/11 The Minnesota state legislature on Friday could green-light a ballot initiative that would ask voters to decide whether to adopt a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
05/18/11 A proposal to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has been cleared to appear on the November ballot, setting the stage for the nation's first public vote on what has long been considered a private family matter
05/18/11 The city of Colorado Springs is objecting to a proposed sale next month of the Banning Lewis Ranch, saying a plan by its bankrupt owners could allow a buyer to walk away from the responsibility to provide tens of millions of dollars worth of public improvements on the land.
05/18/11 Gridlocked traffic due to a fatal traffic collision on I-10 west with the Highway 111 onramp bridge to I-10 in foreground. The Haugen Leman off ramp is one mile away December 1, 2010. / Wade Byars, The Desert Sun
05/18/11 In this season of historic commemoration, it seems rather fitting that we should be observing the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War at the same time we observe the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides.
05/11/11 Personal watercraft rules protect people Someone forgot to mention the California State Boating and Waterway Code when arguing the Jet Ski issue.
05/11/11 U.S. Rep. Mary Bono Mack (left) and her potential 45th District challengers may face a very different campaign once California's districts are redrawn this year.
05/06/11 CONTROVERSY: California Highway Patrol Officer Darren Meyer, right, hands the Bible to Ed Flores, left, before arresting Mark Mackey in this still taken from video released by Advocates for Faith & Freedom.
05/05/11 A launch of a three-stage 156-inch rocket at the Lockheed Potrero test site, May 28, 1964, courtesy of archivist Bill Bell, Banning Library.
05/05/11 Photo by Carlos Puma Antonio Flores makes a flute during a demonstration at the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center in Banning. He will demonstrate flute-making during the free Art Hop May 7.
05/04/11 Palm Springs city council members gave a unanimous thumbs up to a resolution on Wednesday night backing the legalization of same-sex marriage.
04/28/11 A planned one-and-a-half-hour fun flight for a Lake Arrowhead contractor narrowly missed ending in tragedy Monday when the rented plane he was flying ran low on fuel, forcing him to land on a street.
04/28/11 Legislation by Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, would ban youths under 18 from using indoor tanning booths.
04/21/11 Former substitute teacher Kimberly Fleming-McBeth of Beaumont is trying to put her professional life back together after being arrested last year in a case in which she was never prosecuted. | 
