Watsonville Police Chief Jorge Zamora announced his retirement this week after 30 years on the force. He was the department’s first first-generation ...

LONG PUSH from reading advocates, California schools are on the verge of requiring every student in kindergarten through second grade to ...

A PILOT PROGRAM THAT LETS TAXI RIDERS in San Francisco compare taxi prices to other ride-hailing options was made permanent this week by the San Francisco ...

The final remnants of a large homeless encampment on East 12th Street in Oakland are being removed and most of the former residents have accepted spots at ...

IS THE TIME for travel, but if you’re a visa- or a green card-holder, the slew of immigration-related news over the past few months might have put ...

RATS SHUTTING DOWN a grocery store are never a good thing — unless regulars from that market end up boosting businesses in the surrounding area. The Santa ...

CITY OFFICIALS WANT SAN JOSE to reap the economic benefits from the World Cup and Super Bowl when they come to the region next year, and large-scale ...

AFTER COMPLETION of a months-long investigation into complaints made by embattled San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus against a top county official, ...

A FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM to help prevent wildfires and restore forests in Mendocino County has been eliminated under proposed cuts by President Donald Trump’s ...

The East Bay Regional Park District will spend millions over the next three years cutting down and removing dead and dying trees in order to reduce the ...

With the theme “Changing the Narrative,” the 11th Bay Area Book Festival comes to downtown Berkeley on May 31 and June 1, ...

THE OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT this week voted to reverse course on a decision to potentially gut afterschool and summer programs that roiled the ...