Kyle Martin is the Bay Area News Group's Fremont and Tri-Valley reporter for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. A San Jose-born Filipino American, he has lived in both the Bay Area and North Texas, ...

NORAD’s annual tracking of Santa has endured since the Cold War, predating ugly sweater parties and Mariah Carey classics.

(Bloomberg) — A Starbucks Corp. barista strike has shut down about 170 cafes, according to the coffee chain, disrupting service at locations nationwide during the final days of the crucial holiday ...

Government regulators cleared American flights to get airborne about one hour after the Federal Aviation Administration ...

SANTA CRUZ — Three workers inspecting the Santa Cruz Wharf fell into the choppy ocean waves and had to be rescued after part ...

High surf played a role in a death Monday at a beach in Santa Cruz County. Authorities were called to Sunset State Beach around 11:30 a.m. for a report of a person trapped under debris or a log “due ...

Without real reform, Social Security is like a family paying off credit cards by going on a New Year’s vacation cruise. A crash is inevitable.

ISTANBUL (AP) — An explosion at an ammunition factory in northwest Turkey left 11 dead and five injured Tuesday morning. The ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 federal district judgeships, saying “hurried action” by the House left important questions unanswered about ...

Robert “Bob” Ruesch has been tapped by his City Council colleagues to serve the next year as mayor for Mission Viejo’s 90,000 ...

California has enough problems without making people endure political stunts. That’s just what the California Air Resource ...