THE CITY OF OAKLAND has successfully issued bonds worth $334 million to fund infrastructure projects, Mayor Barbara Lee, City ...

LAWMAKERS HAVE INTRODUCED A BILL to support wine producers and other specialty crop growers who have been hit financially by ...

The West Contra Costa Unified School District has reached a tentative agreement with its teachers’ union to end a strike that ...

Marika Kuzma, director of the chamber choir Ensemble Cherubim, recalls that when she was a graduate student in the 1980s, her ...

This time of year, we all turn into suckers for bright colorful lights, whether they appear on trees, buildings, even basset ...

SAN JOSE, THE SYMBOLIC CAPITAL of Silicon Valley, is now ground zero in California’s battle over how to govern the rise of ...

On Tuesday, a group of protesters dominated the Marin County Board of Supervisors meeting to demand the county Sheriff’s ...

A CONCORD FOOD BANK stepped up its game this fall as threats to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ...

The arraignment for the man accused of fatally stabbing a social worker at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital last week has been delayed because he ...

THE ANNUAL Novato Holiday Tree Lighting Festival kicked off the winter holiday season this past weekend by closing off the intersection of Grant Avenue ...

THE LONG-AWAITED ROLLOUT of the new generation of the Clipper Card payment system begins Wednesday, when Bay Area travelers will be able to pay for public ...

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