It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! (PRO TIP: If ...

It’s about falling in love with yourself by being in the orbit of someone else.” In other words: Your favorite rom-com may ...

Heck, Alameda wasn’t even an island at first — it was latched to Oakland before the largest dredging operation prior to the ...

Stocks fell with the dollar Monday after Moody's removed the United States' last gold standard sovereign bond rating, citing ...

Stocks fell with the dollar Monday after Moody's removed the United States' last gold standard sovereign bond rating, citing ...

The Milwaukee Bucks imploded in Game 5 of the first round of the NBA playoffs. This most recent series loss now marks the ...

Forget flashy features—teachers don't follow hype, they follow each other. Real influence in EdTech starts with authentic, ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. WHAT: Prescribed pile burning of approximately 40 treated acres of slash from felled dead trees and brush. WHEN: May 14-21.

Shot by a former student, 'Slauson Rec' chronicles the free-form collective that LaBeouf cofounded in South Central L.A. He ...

It keeps getting worse for UnitedHealth Group Inc. investors, as a report of a criminal investigation into its Medicare practices sent the stock diving Thursday to a five-year low. The Justice ...

The Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) says its Stillwater prison will be undergoing a phased closure as part of the state’s economic plan, as well as decrease the amount of current ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney's newly constituted cabinet met for the first time Wednesday on Parliament Hill as the government grapples with a whole host of challenges it will be charged with ...