Wherever you travel, it’s worth checking out the local farmers market, not only to cast your vote for a vital local agriculture but to get a grassroots sense of the place and its people. Here’s a special report from one of our favorites.

Researchers never expected to win the war against cancer with a single decisive blow. But thanks to a growing number of small but important advances, medicine has been gaining ground. The latest evidence comes in a report just published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

For years, doctors have counseled patients with high blood pressure to cut back on sodium, or salt. That’s still good advice. But making sure you get enough potassium may be just as important.

Sweeping vistas, icons of boom-and-bust history, and a half day’s worth of gallery hopping and browsing, plus trails to seaside bluffs, a gentle beach, and shady woods—not too bad for a lane just five blocks long.