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East Bay Municipal Utility District Director April Chan offered her temporary resignation as vice president of the board on Tuesday while in...

The time has finally come for single-game ticket sales to the Golden State Valkyries’ inaugural season at Chase Center.Fans have been waiti...

The Oakland Unified school board could be considering whether to push out the district’s superintendent of nearly 10 years, according to a b...

The first season of the new Big 12 went as well as the conference could have hoped, until the last 30 seconds of the final game.Houston’s b...

A new, tiny pacemaker — smaller than a grain of rice — developed at Northwestern University could play a sizable role in the future of medic...

PHOENIX – Buddy Hield was all alone on his end of the PHX Arena court after most of his Warriors teammates had already left for the team bus...

HAYWARD — The defendant in a grisly fatal shooting and body burial has agreed to serve 15 years and eight months in prison through a plea de...

The fate of California’s two new National Monuments could come down to whether President Donald Trump can erase it the same way it came to b...

The 49ers’ offseason has been a dizzying effort to both get worse and not sign their so-called franchise quarterback.And all the while, gen...

For whale enthusiasts, there’s one must-attend event in Northern California every year: Whalefest Monterey, taking place over two days with...

FREMONT — Brayden Jaksa’s talent is not hard to spot on the baseball field. The 6-foot-6, 210-pound catcher can do it all. Behind home plat...

ANTIOCH — A 3-year-old toddler died Tuesday night after police said it shot itself with a gun at a home, police said.Related Articles...

Alameda Health System was ordered to pay $2.4 million to former Highland Hospital morgue employee Daniel Ridge in a wrongful termination sui...

When a turbo roundabout rolled into the southernmost corner of the Bay Area early last year, it became the first-in-the-state adoption of a...

If you or someone you love graduated from a University of California campus, you know the power of public higher education. Maybe you walked...

Benicia couldn’t have asked for a better start to league play. The Panthers played its Diablo Athletic League Foothill Division opener agai...

Which neck pillow is best?Traveling can be exhausting, but catching a nap on the run is easier said than done. More often than not, sleepin...

A proposed bill in the California Legislature barring cities and counties from fining or arresting a homeless person for sleeping or camping...

TODAY’S WORD — PREPARED (PREPARED: prih-PARE’D: Ready to deal with a situation.)Average mark 28 wordsTime limit 40 minutesCan you find 33...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Elle Fanning, 27; Kristen Stewart, 35; Leighton Meester, 39; Dennis Quaid, 71.Happy Birthday: Exaggerating, t...

Dear Eric: For more than five years I have been having a single friend and her two kids over to dinner weekly.Related Articles...

DEAR HARRIETTE: I think a friend of mine may have a food addiction.Related ArticlesHarriette Cole: The man I’m dating made...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am curious what the etiquette is at a gathering when music is playing in a friend’s home on the voice-controlled device...

PHOENIX – Jimmy Butler crashed in a rim-rattling dunk in the third quarter of Golden State’s 133-95 romp in Phoenix on Tuesday night. It wa...

SAN JOSE — Catarina Macario didn’t wait long to make her presence felt.The United States women’s soccer team player, a native of Brazil who...