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BRENTWOOD — With current City Manager Tim Ogden set to leave for Sacramento County, the city of Brentwood is searching for his replacement....

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The annual Breakthrough Prize was created more than a decade ago by Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and other Silicon Valley tech moguls to hon...

SAN JOSE – Shakir Mukhamadullin’s upper body injury will keep him out of the San Jose Sharks’ final six games of the season and any playoff...

At Greens, a vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco, Executive Chef Katie Reicher waits eagerly each year for the potaotes to come in from t...

Los Angeles County officials announced the county has reached a $4 billion tentative settlement covering more than 6,800 sexual abuse claims...

Clem Burke, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drummer of Blondie, died Sunday from cancer.The artist — a drummer’s drummer whose performances...

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4989 Mayfield Drive – Google Street ViewThe property located in the 4900 block of Mayfield Drive in Fremont was sold on Feb. 21, 2025. The...

(Bloomberg / Davey Alba and Julia Love) — In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen fo...

SANTA CRUZ — When the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors agreed to ban the sale of filtered cigarettes late last year, it was the most s...

OAKLAND — An East Bay man has been charged with distributing child sexual abuse material to a woman who told police she didn’t want or ask f...

MONTEREY – After a one-day online poll with almost 30,000 participants, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has announced it is naming its newest resi...

By Jill SchlesingerHappy spring, or as I like to call it, shredder weather! This is my annual reminder to comb through your physical and el...

LOS GATOS — Santa Clara County authorities have shared the identities and causes of death of the two men that were found last week in an aba...

California tourism could lose billions of dollars because of President Donald Trump’s policies on tariffs, immigration and gender identity,...

DEAR JOAN: I’ve been reading a lot about the avian flu and the danger to domestic cats. I have two cats, now 4 years old, that I harness tra...

The battlelines are drawn in the crowded, high-stakes San Jose District 3 City Council special election, with business and labor interests f...

The Warriors lost to the Houston Rockets on Sunday night, ending the Dubs’ incendiary five-game run through Western Conference competition....

Last year was the hottest yet recorded around the world, and in Santa Clara County 38 deaths were determined to be heat-related, after sever...

By Alexandra Skores and Marnie Hunter | CNNNew Jersey woman Lauren Mills is one of many Americans scrambling to get an updated driver’s lic...

By Stephanie Elam, CNNLos Angeles — Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are attacki...

A minke whale that had been swimming in Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor for most of the past week was found dead Sunday morning, April 6.Offici...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Russell Crowe, 61; Jackie Chan, 71; John Oates, 77; Francis Ford Coppola, 86.Happy Birthday: Seize the moment...

Dear Eric: Many years ago, I was married to a woman who, after we divorced, admitted she cheated on me with a married man.Related Articles...