An accident at Vandenberg Space Force Base killed a 23-year-old airman on July 16. The heavy equipment that Airman 1st Class ...

Less than 1 percent of the global population is an Olympic athlete. Catalina Bertola often compares the achievement with life in the art world. Most people will never reach Olympic status—in athletics ...

Since we opened our doors, the Sun has insisted that you, too, can become a published writer. In our annual 55 Fiction contest, we ask would-be authors to send us their tiny stories and cross their ...

At a Senate hearing in June, Marco Rubio claimed that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) operated as “an independent State Department,” working contrary to U.S. interests. Despite ...

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Hear original pieces and old Broadway tunes from singer Gale McNeeley on his four-stop tour in August called My Life in Song. He’ll be joined by pianist Paul Marszalkowski, a musical director at the ...

CALL FOR ENTRIES ATTENTION LOCAL SINGERS, SONGWRITERS, MUSICIANS, & BANDS Song Entry Period – July 17 – August 24, 2026 Showcase – 11/13/26 – 7pm Send any questions about the entry form or process to ...

Our judges pored over the 55 Fiction entries, which flowed into our office throughout the year from near and far. We laughed. We cried. We scratched our heads. And in the end, we deemed this crop of ...

The news this week almost made me want to set down my feather pen and bury my head in the sand, à la my long-legged cousins. A Vandenberg Space Force Base airman died on base after the heavy equipment ...

FEATURE faraway galaxies appearing in the lens may no longer be the same. Starry objects can be tens of millions of light ...

TRAILBLAZING The first time Nixie Margiotta (they/them) told me they were starting a hiking group called Hikes and Dykes, I ...

On July 1, Donald Trump flew to the Theodore Roosevelt Library in a jet gifted to him by the Qatari dictator, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. This is unprecedented. What was typical is that, once at ...