If you want to celebrate your independence this July 4, put your American flags away. Instead, fly a California flag. Or, even better, run up the banner of your county or municipality. The local level ...

Fourth of July is days away, and Six Flags Great America is hosting a multi-day food-and-music-filled fireworks display to celebrate. For those looking to precede their firework-viewing with a ...

• I’d like to take a little contrarian view of the fireworks debate that goes on daily in the newspaper. It’s not the function of government to entertain the masses on the Fourth of July or any other ...

If you're putting a flag up, here are a couple of things to remember: 1. Traditional guidelines call for displaying the flag in public only from sunrise to sunset. Sunset right now is around 8:30 p.m.