THIS MEMORIAL DAY will see far fewer living veterans of World War II, with just over 60,000 still alive in the U.S. today. An article in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oakland kids will be able to eat for free this summer thanks to programs run by the city and the Oakland Unified School District. City officials this week ...

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 ...

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 ...