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FDA approves new version of diabetes drug Mounjaro for weight loss under a new name
It’s the latest diabetes drug approved for weight loss.
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Kurtenbach: The 49ers’ big second-half question — where’s the juice?
So much has gone wrong for the 49ers’ defense over the last few weeks, it’s difficult to know where to start making corrections. They need to rev up the pass rush — the acquisition of Chase Young is aimed at doing that. They need to stop calling such plain and predictable plays, which could be…
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Colorado funeral home owner, wife, arrested on charges linked to the handling of at least 189 bodies
A Colorado funeral home owner and his wife have been arrested after the decaying remains of at least 189 people were recently found at his facility.
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Draymond Green out vs. Nuggets; Gary Payton II questionable
DENVER — Draymond Green is out for personal reasons for the Warriors’ game against the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday. Green, a key defender against Denver’s MVP center Nikola Jokic, will miss his third game of the season and the final game of this Warriors’ four-game road trip. He missed the first two games of the…
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Massive chemical plant fire in Texas forces a school to evacuate and residents to shelter in place
Thick black smoke shot up from the plant – located about 60 miles from Houston, Texas – as the flames kept burning near the ground, aerial footage showed.
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Finally, Some Water
There was good and bad news for the 1,200 customers of the struggling Big Basin Water Company who have had their drinking water trucked in at a cost of $60,000 a month. In the last two weeks, BBWC has stopped trucking in water, has cut the cost of importing water by 60% and is now…
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Monarchs Flutter In
Lily Aravanis is fielding visitor questions, selling butterfly paraphernalia and on this Wednesday afternoon talking to a reporter all at once—still, she doesn’t skip a beat as she says that there are an estimated 3,500 monarch butterflies at Natural Bridges State Beach. It’s the busiest time of the year for the small visitor center according…
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A Quest for Justice
Glenn Schaller, whose grassroots work touched nearly every aspect of local progressive politics for the past four decades throughout California, died Oct. 30 in his Santa Cruz home. He was 66. His friends and family say that, despite his work on high-profile issues such as leading multiple campaigns or battling Proposition 8—the 2008 law that…
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Community Speaks Against Pesticides
Members of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) presented a plan on Oct. 30 that aims to strengthen the way the state regulates agricultural pesticides—but many members of the public expressed skepticism over the effectiveness of the regulations. The four-year plan was presented in Watsonville to a crowd of about 50 people at the…
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SF Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford considering playing again in 2024
Brandon Crawford might not be done yet. The longtime San Francisco Giants shortstop received multiple standing ovations in an emotional sendoff from Oracle Park on the last day of the season in October, when Giants fans said goodbye to their shortstop for the last 13 years. But Crawford said after that game that he would…
