CAL FIRE’S AERIAL FIREFIGHTING fleet, the largest civilian force in the world, has added two modern aircraft that can fly farther, operate at night and ...

WARNING OF A “TRANSIT DISASTER,” the city managers of San Joaquin County’s eight incorporated cities are urging the Regional Transit District to ...

The San Ramon Valley Unified School District has agreed to a settlement for nearly $7 million in a lawsuit alleging the sexual assault of two minor ...

U.S. CONGRESSMAN JIMMY PANETTA has reintroduced legislation aiming to remove a cap on the number of visas granted to victims of domestic abuse and other ...

EVERY FEW YEARS, the tires on your car wear thin and need to be replaced. But where does that lost tire material go? The answer, unfortunately, is often ...

SUMMER CAMPERS IN SAN FRANCISCO’S Golden Gate Park did not expect they would be painting with corn tortillas and a repurposed tire with a famed Mexican ...

WHEN IT COMES to homelessness, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and President Donald Trump see eye to eye: get homeless people off the streets and into treatment ...

More signs of West Nile virus have cropped up this summer in Contra Costa County, this time in Knightsen, officials said. A group of mosquitoes collected ...

East Bay novelist Linda Lenhoff decided to veer away from pure breeziness in her new, fourth book. In “Your Actual Live May ...

ALL SUMMER LONG at Liberation Park, a shared community hub in Oakland, the Black Cultural Zone Community Development Corporation has brought people ...

THE MATH SAYS IT ALL. Santa Clara County can’t build temporary or permanent housing fast enough to address its growing homeless population. There ...

A construction subcontractor and father of seven died in a scaffolding accident while working at an elementary school modernization project in Berkeley ...