The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday issued an urgent warning to American used car buyers, ...

While Consumer Reports ranked this Japanese car brand pretty well in terms of price, the website ranked it dead last in terms ...

Charlie Sison Julio was sentenced to 10 months in prison, suspended for three years, meaning he won’t serve time unless he ...

Lately a diplomatic spat with China has begun depressing the number of people coming to Japan from that country—but even this ...

While Toyota is a Japanese company, trucks like the Tacoma and the Tundra are as American as they come. Designed and built in the U.S. for buyers in the U.S., they’re consequently imposing in size and ...

It’s been a year of devastating fires, immigration raids and political fury. Yet the topic that most provoked Essential California readers in 2025 proved to be a far more quotidian annoyance — bad ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 100 illegal alien truck drivers on California highways in Operation Highway Sentinel, launched after a string of deadly crashes linked to ...

The headline sounds like one of those things that's way too good to be true. Like a scam you'd find on a shady website; "install this SSD driver for huge speed gains!" It's real, though, and it's ...

I made this video after I was nearly left-hooked while riding the brand new (and totally wonderful!) protected bike lane on SW 4th Avenue in downtown Portland last week. Then today I learned my friend ...

Technology can’t catch all the bad drivers in New Hampshire, but there’s a possibility that sometime soon, it might prevent habitual offenders from speeding for a year or more. A bill sponsored by ...

More people, more problems…traffic problems, that is. The Town of Windsor, which was recently named the state’s biggest boomtown, just earned another title: the home of Colorado’s worst drivers.

Federal immigration agents arrested 91 commercial drivers in California enforcement. The operations targeted trucking companies, checkpoints and highways. California recently planned to revoke 17,000 ...