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Sunnyvale’s 27th public park opened last week at the site of the Corn Palace, a family-owned farm that had operated for more than half a cen...

Di Liu of San Jose told Apple he was resigning his position as a design engineer to spend more time with his family and look after his healt...

The Golden State Valkyries have waived forward Chloe Bibby and guard Bree Hall, the team announced on Monday. Bibby played a significant ro...

The newspaper headline shouted “Landmarks Scraped to Make Way for Skyscraper,” and the story was an obituary of sorts for historic buildings...

HAYWARD — A city manager placed on leave by the Hayward City Council has resigned from her position.Ana Alvarez’s resignation on June 24 ca...

SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks are cutting ties with forward Nikolai Kovalenko, allowing him and a group of other players to become unrestri...

SAN JOSE — Second Harvest of Silicon Valley has bought a big chunk of empty land in San Jose that is next to a choice site where the high-pr...

The window for legally buying fireworks in California opened last weekend and will run through noon on Sunday, July 6. It covers only certai...

Menlo Park has a new wine bar, tucked into the residential Willows neighborhood.Haven Wine & Cheese, which opened its doors June 21, was la...

With Charlize Theron saying that Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos and their celebrity wedding guests “suck,” and people online calling them the “w...

The Trump administration on Monday sued the City of Los Angeles, accusing it of violating federal law with its “sanctuary city” policies by...

It took 35 years, five swings and a near-death experience, but the Pac-12 finally is planting its flag in Texas.As it exists today, the con...

A condo in Fremont that sold for $520,000 tops the list of the most affordable real estate sales in Fremont in the past week.For comparison...

SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks have issued a qualifying offer to pending restricted free agent forward Thomas Bordeleau, Bay Area News Group...

(Bloomberg/Hadriana Lowenkron and María Paula Mijares Torres) — President Donald Trump said he has identified a buyer for the US operations...

A man serving a life sentence for a double killing in a Richmond restaurant is under investigation after the death of his cellmate.Related...

Every creative morsel hiding in the nook of a storyline about marauding dinosaurs terrorizing humans appeared to have been chewed up by the...

The San Mateo County and Alameda County fairs are behind us but lovers of ferris wheels and food on a stick have plenty to look forward to....

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  — Crew members from a Disney cruise ship saved a girl who fell overboard and her father who jumped in after her.The...

The Social Security (SS) Board of Trustees announced that the SS trust fund is on track to run dry in 2033. When it does, every current and...

WALNUT CREEK — A driver died early Sunday morning in a fiery one-car crash near the downtown area, police said.Related Articles...

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A video released by the Anaheim Police Department shows what happened before a fatal police shooting in Santa Ana in April, after a pickup d...

SAN FRANCISCO — The crowd inside Chase Center went quiet just 38 seconds into the third quarter. Near midcourt, Valkyries star Kayla Thornt...

It was a near-perfect Friday — in the 60s, sunny and breezy — at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, the home of the world’s foremost colle...