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South Bay and PeninsulaJuly 4Chili Cook-Off and Summer Festival: Enjoy free chili tasting, live music, food trucks and games and kids’ act...

SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks added the player widely considered the best forward available in this year’s NHL Draft, selecting center Mich...

Roiled by persistently high interest rates and economic uncertainty amid President Donald Trump’s trade war, the Bay Area’s usually heated s...

The Trump administration’s push to deport millions of people living in the country illegally could seriously disrupt key sectors of Californ...

ANTIOCH – Youth services in Antioch received a boost in June with a $1.7 million funding award to help with the city’s young people and its...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Michael Phelps, 40; Monica Potter, 54; Mike Tyson, 59; David Alan Grier, 69.Happy Birthday: Focus on what mat...

Dear Eric: Five years ago, on Mother’s Day, my adult son suddenly cut me out of his life.Related ArticlesAsking Eric: I’m th...

DEAR HARRIETTE: A couple weeks back, my car broke down on me.Related ArticlesHarriette Cole: Why can’t we have a nice annive...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: One of the highlights of our trip to Paris was an opera performance at the Palais Garnier. The opera, “Médée” by Cherubin...

Today is Monday, June 30, the 181st day of 2025. There are 184 days left in the year.Today in history:On June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler launc...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Valkyries were playing in their third game in five days, but you wouldn’t know it by the way they handled the Seattle St...

SAN FRANCISCO – Plenty of familiar names and a pair of recent draft picks headline the Warriors’ 2025 Summer League roster. Nineteen player...

On Saturday evening, a 38-year-old man was injured in a shooting in the 2000 block of Terrace View Avenue in Antioch, according to a news re...

The 55th annual San Francisco Pride Parade marched, danced and skipped down Market Street in an array of music, dancing, a sea of rainbows a...

Editor’s Note: This article was written for Mosaic, an independent journalism training program for high school students who report and photo...

The wait continues for Justin Verlander.Seeking his first win of the season in his 13th start, the Giants bullpen faltered in the bottom of...

SAN FRANCISCO – A few days after the 2025 NBA Draft, a few of the Warriors’ previous second-rounders were brought back for the upcoming seas...

NEW YORK (AP/By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER) — A jury will begin deliberations on Monday over the fate of Sean “Diddy” Combs after...

Baby Phoenix Castro’s family were among about a dozen people who gathered Saturday for a San Jose vigil to remember the infant two years aft...

ATLANTA (AP/By ALLYN TUCKER) — The champions of Europe booted Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammates out of the Club World Cup on Sunday...

WASHINGTON (AP/By FATIMA HUSSEIN) — The changes made to President Donald Trump’s big tax bill in the Senate would pile trillions onto the na...

WASHINGTON (AP/By DAVID KLEPPER and ALI SWENSON) — President Donald Trump says he is not planning to extend a 90-day pause on tariffs on mos...

NEW YORK (AP/By JAKE COYLE) — Apple has its first box-office hit.“F1 The Movie” debuted with $55.6 million in North American theaters and $...

HAYWARD — A San Francisco man has been charged with attacking a woman as she walked home at night, in what police believe was a failed attem...

CREST AwardsNominations are open for the 2025 CREST, or “Cupertino Recognizes Extra Steps Taken,” awards. The City of Cupertino uses the aw...