The open enrollment period for Covered California health insurance begins Nov. 1 and will continue through Jan. 31, 2016. Currently, about 1.4 million Californians obtain their health insurance through Covered California. Dec. 15 is the last day to enroll in or change plans for new coverage to start January 1, 2016. The Open Enrollment period…

In December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under section 4(d) of the Endangered Species Act. But that action may be too late for the venerable and beautiful creature. On Jan. 30, the Xerces Society, which has organized survey counts of the Monarch for the past…

Pine Cove resident Maureen “Mo” Mullins retired last year, but has certainly not slowed down. In October she joined a group that reached the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. At 71, she credits her high-altitude home, and the training she did here, for…