A Southern California Edison representative told the Santa Paula City Council this week that beginning Thursday, the company will start notifying its more than 180,000 customers in Ventura County of plans to replace old electric meters with so-called smart meters.

(By Deborah L. Cohen - Reuters) - For Jeff Chimenti, a rock keyboardist who plays with offshoots of the Grateful Dead, it has been anything but a "long strange trip" getting his medical product to market.

Seminole County has released ideas for what it may do with the site where the historical tree The Senator once stood. The 118-foot cypress tree estimated to be 3,500 years old burned to the ground in Longwood's Big Tree Park in January. Seminole County wants to make sure nothing else happens to the site. A letter from the county lists all the security options, which could include two fences and ...