A new coffee shop in downtown Sacramento has opened at the former Starbucks site on K Street. Con Azucar Café is having a soft opening at its Downtown Commons location near the Golden 1 Center.

The Mofongo Madness, for $16.99, is a calzone stuffed with plantains, pork, mojo sauce, garlic butter and mozzarella, based on the Puerto Rican dish mofongo. It is then brushed with more garlic ...

I wondered, before realising how very ironic my reaction was. The LA fires, which are still burning, have now scorched and flattened a populated area more than 12 times the size of that destroyed ...