Columnist Kristin Neva and her husband with ALS are sometimes asked about the way they went about building their accessible home.

Jill VanKuren says Saratoga Hospital has taken a different approach this time in working to win support for a new building on Myrtle Street.

It began in Whittier near a chaotic intersection known colloquially as Five Points and ended on the coast in Venice. Why would I do that? Everyone from the cashier at my Trader Joe’s to my mother ...