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Marijuana growers are shifting to the suburbs from rural and commercial areas, helped by a housing crisis that created a glut of affordable houses for indoor farming.

As part of a project commemorating Marvin Gaye's breakthrough protest album What's Going On, Youth Radio producer Brandon McFarland was asked to remix Gaye's raw tracks with lyrics and contributions from Oakland-area youths.

STOCKTON - Bankruptcy doesn't miraculously give a city a fresh start, Councilman Dale Fritchen told a crowd gathered Monday for his first town hall meeting held to make his case against Stockton's option for Chapter 9.

Advocates from Vallejo, Calif., are arguing that Lucasfilm should locate its giant new production facility there. But George Lucas' company is being coy about its plans. [Read more]

SAN FRANCISCO -- A judge has issued a tentative ruling denying San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's motion to overturn his suspension on official misconduct charges.

A federal judge is weighing whether officials of bankrupt Jefferson County, Ala., can divert money that would have gone to pay J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and other debtholders in order to upgrade its leaky sewer system.

For distressed municipalities, attempts to plug budget holes with one-time transactions are giving way to other approaches.

Best Buy said it plans to close 50 U.S. big box stores and open 100 small mobile locations in the U.S. in fiscal 2013 and cut $800 million in costs by fiscal 2015. The news came Thursday as the biggest U.S. specialty electronics retailer posted a...

Even Dalton McGuinty (sounding more and more like Stephen Harper every day) says the old public spending model isn’t working any more

Filed under: News Jason Merritt/Getty Images Timing, as the expression goes, is everything. And sometimes, timing can be inadvertently terrible, like lawsuit leveled against the Beastie Boys that's rubbing salt on the still-fresh wound of...