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The University of Notre Dame’s board has elected a new president who will take over July 1.

Rental registry On Nov. 7, the Monterey City Council approved a Rental Registry Ordinance. The new ordinance will undoubtedly cause homelessness to increase when rental unit availability goes down, and the shortage leaves people who cannot afford to own with nowhere to rent. The irony is that just one evening later, on Nov. 8, the […]

“I think that what you’ve seen across the state is that it’s been harder for the students to recover in mathematics from the effects of the pandemic than it has been for them to recover in English language arts,” said the district's director of curriculum, Buck Roggeman. “That makes sense because the content of math builds on itself from one year to the next. So with a break in progression, I think it’s going to take longer for the mathematics scores to recover than it will for ...

It’s a busy week for school boards, with governing boards from all the districts on the Peninsula scheduled to meet. Here are the school board meetings to keep an eye on this week. 

Valerie Anthony stood in front of Robert Down Elementary School in Pacific Grove on Thursday and spoke, at times through tears, about the impact that racist comments had on her three boys who attended the school.

“I think if the NAACP had engaged with us sooner on this, they would see what the district has been doing,” said the district's interim superintendent, Josh Jorn. “Unfortunately, it takes time for the trickle down effect for some of the practices, policies, procedures and professional developments that we’ve initiated to trickle down all the way to our student population, which is where this instance began.”

CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - Class action lawyers want $250,000 for their work on a case that claimed snackers were tricked by the maker of TGI Friday's bagged mozzarella sticks into thinking the product contained actual mozzarella.

It's not much but it's a start. Chicago's police force has spent several years vying for the title of "Worst PD in...