Benjamin Fine News Today

Holiday travelers descended on South Station on Wednesday morning, hoping for smooth rides on Thanksgiving Eve to their holiday destinations.

Central Coast Blue recently received an $8 million grant from the State Water Resources Control Board to help fund the water sustainability project, lessening the...

Starting July 1, Atascadero will have a new city manager after Rachelle Rickard announced her retirement in early March, capping 26 years with the city....

Benjamin Fine, longtime Stamford resident and Fairfield University professor, died March 11 at his home. He was 74. Born in New York City on Oct. 12, 1948, he was the son of Reuben and Sonya LeBeoux Fine. Kind-hearted, gregarious and funny, Ben was a great storyteller who was always there for friends and family. He […]

Pismo Beach is the latest city to consider more water use restrictions amid intensifying drought conditions.

The Board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California declared a water shortage emergency Tuesday, requiring about 6 million people to cut back their water usage.

With no historic preservation ordinance in St. Louis County and a wave of developers looking for sites to build, unincorporated South County is losing some historic structures as three separate structures are under threat of being torn down and one is already gone. The oldest house in Oakville, a stone farmhouse off Fine and Telegraph roads known as the Fine-Eiler House, was torn down by its owner earlier this year — a fact that was revealed when the property came up for zoning for a new McBr...

Land at the southern end of Telegraph Road in Oakville near Jefferson County is once again being eyed for a large new subdivision, but even with the historic Fine-Eiler House on the property torn down, some of the neighbors are starting a campaign against the new homes for reasons ranging from water runoff to density. In a videoconferenced public hearing Jan. 25 on the 26-acre, 53-home subdivision that developers McBride Homes and Oakville-based J.H. Berra are calling “Shadow Point,” the co...