Pismo Beach City Council and mayoral candidates squared off at a League of Women Voters forum Thursday evening. The forum featured two candidates for mayor — Kevin Kreowski and current Mayor Ed Waage — along with City Council candidates Marcia Guthrie,

Thousand Oaks voters will choose two council members in the November election. In the city's first district elections, voters will pick a candidate in two of its five newly drawn districts. Voters cast a ballot for just one council candidate who lives in their area of the city.

Five city council seats are on the ballot in November. Look up which district you live in, watch the candidates introduce themselves, and find out where they stand on three pressing issues: housing, transit and homelessness.

The Honolulu City Council has postponed their decision allowing the city to pay a $1.5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed after Honolulu police fatally shot 29-year-old Lindani Myeni in 2021.

Following a national trend of proposed bans on menthol or flavored tobacco products, the Council postponed a vote Thursday afternoon to disallow local businesses from selling such products as of Jan.