An interactive, online enterprise providing multimedia journals, professionally produced features and forums for the transmission and exchange of local news, information and opinions to, among and for the benefit of a local audience. Subjects are of immediate and direct local interest, such as, but not limited to, city, county and state regulatory actions and their effects on the local community, local law-enforcement, local developmental and environmental issues, local businesses, local and regional politics, local events intended for local residents, local transportation, local education and notable individual achievements within the local community