California is observing Wildfire Preparedness Week from May 4 to May 10, urging residents to take proactive steps to protect their homes and communities ...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP announced Sunday he is directing federal authorities to reopen the famous prison at Alcatraz Island ...

SRIDHAR KOLLAREDDY WALKS between thousands of imported marbled granite slabs, slated to become countertops or gravestones. His business, Silicon Valley ...

ROZITA POLICE WORRIES if her Palo Alto-based cosmetology business will be able to weather the tariffs proposed by President Donald Trump. Police, 51, has ...

ONE GROUP IS CLEARING hundreds of acres of forestland in one of the largest wildfire risk reduction projects in Santa Clara County. The Los Gatos Creek ...

Martin Luther King Jr. inspired the nation with his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech — a powerful vision for equality.  Almost 62 years ...

A medication that reverses opioid overdoses is now available at three branches of the Contra Costa County Library. Naloxone, an opioid antagonist, ...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY WANTS TO HELP homeless people on probation avoid extra jail time by bringing legal services to encampments. People on probation are ...

San Francisco’s public school district has partially lifted a teacher hiring freeze, allowing educators to switch schools and schools to begin hiring ...

The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner this week confirmed the county’s first overdose death due to carfentanil, a drug 100 times more potent than ...

FROM THE LIVING ROOM window of their waterfront home, Carol and Tony Anello have watched the rise and fall of Bodega Bay. Traffic on Westshore Road flows ...

DURING HIS ADOLESCENCE, William Fong’s entire world was contained in San Francisco. But in 1967, over a decade into the Vietnam War, he was drafted. At ...