Lake County Record-Bee

2 days ago | record-bee.com | Mike Stobbe |Geoff Mulvihill

By MIKE STOBBE and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated PressThere were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023. The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years.

5 days ago | record-bee.com | Lane Gillespie

By Lane Gillespie, Bankrate.comSpend any time on FinTok (the personal finance corner of TikTok) and you may have heard of a “no-buy” month, which is a budgeting challenge to not spend money on certain discretionary purchases for a month. Whether you eliminate one spending category in particular or cut discretionary spending altogether, the point of a no-buy challenge remains the same: less spending, more saving.

1 week ago | record-bee.com | Diana Lambert

President Donald Trump would maintain funding levels for students with disabilities and for Title I aid for low-income students while wiping out long-standing programs serving migrant children, teachers in training, college-bound students, English learners and adult learners in the education budget for fiscal 2026.

1 week ago | record-bee.com | William Roller

For the record, in Wednesday’s edition the name of the KPFZ program host was incorrect. The name should have been John Moorhead.

1 week ago | record-bee.com | Nikki Carboni

At the most recent Judge’s Breakfast in Clearlake, Will Evans, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Clear Lake Environmental Research Center (CLERC), presented on the group’s current and future projects. The CLERC began in 2014 having original intentions of studying Clear Lake and the surrounding watersheds, unlocking its many secrets.