LAST WEEK the Cardinals picked an American to lead the Catholic Church, but there are no Americans in the annual Eurovision Song Contest — and that’s a ...

EARLY ONE MONDAY MORNING in May, Vincent O’Bannon was dropped off outside the gates of San Quentin Rehabilitation Center after serving more than 15 years ...

CALIFORNIA IS FACING a $12 billion deficit that Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to help close by freezing enrollment in a state-funded health care program for ...

At the start of Oakland Theater Project's riveting production of "Ironbound," a couple is in the middle of an intense ...

SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY growers are finding nothing cheery about the cherry harvest that starts this month. Both the county and pretty much the entire San ...

Controller’s Office of San Joaquin County has introduced a new whistleblower and fraud reporting hotline, the county announced. The hotline ...

GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM ordered state agencies to clear homeless encampments from their properties last summer, holding up the California Department of ...

THE OAKLAND ZOO is taking care of a female spider monkey seized last week by the Solano County Sheriff’s Office during a narcotics raid in Vallejo.  Named ...

Adelaida, an immigrant from Todos Santos, a rural region in the northern highlands of Guatemala, arrived in the Bay Area. The ...

San Francsico’s iconic Bay to Breakers has a new look, thanks in large part to San Francisco artist and runner Zachary “Zach” ...

It began 46 years ago as the Prune Festival, but don’t let that scare you. This annual event in downtown Campbell has nothing ...

As part of a revised budget to address a $12 billion shortfall in the upcoming year, Gov. Gavin Newsom included a request to streamline the Delta ...