Across the nation Wednesday, people absorbed the news that the Postal Service plans to stop delivering mail on Saturdays as a cost-savings measure. The change will take effect in August.

If the country heads over the fiscal cliff Tuesday, Californians will be slapped simultaneously with a slew of federal tax increases and higher state income and sales taxes from Proposition 30. Absent a last-minute deal, the federal tax increases alone will hit the average family with more than $3,500 in higher taxes in 2013.

With her time in Congress running short, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma, is pursuing a new approach to protecting more of the North Coast from oil drilling — one that doesn’t require a vote in the Republican-controlled House.

I just returned from the raging waters of Yosemite to catch the ripples from the redistricting commission’s draft congressional maps.

Do you know your share of defense spending under the federal budget proposal unveiled Monday by President Barack Obama?

Democrat Rep. Lynn Woolsey is seeking a 10th term in the Nov. 2 election. Republican Jim Judd, a Rohnert Park businessman making his first run for public office, said he offers voters a clear alternative. Libertarian Joel Smolen and Eugene Ruyle of the Peace & Freedom Party also are on the ballot.

Got a take on one of the big issues facing our country? Your congressman wants to hear from you. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, is inviting constituents of his North Coast district to call in during a town hall-style teleconference on Wednesday evening. Thompson said he wants residents of the 1st Congressional District to ask [...]

Two Sonoma County officials are headed to Washington, D.C. today to lobby for a county program that helps finance home and commercial energy retrofits.

Tom Campbell and Chuck DeVore, two of the three Republicans hoping to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer in November, will lay out their ideas at tonight at a debate in San Rafael.