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SAN QUENTIN — The first officer convicted of a crime from an on-duty shooting in Contra Costa is set to be released from prison, authorities...

3851 Silvera Ranch Drive – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 3800 block of Silvera Ranch Drive in Dublin was sold on J...

A bill designed to limit foreign influence in U.S. universities divided Orange County’s congressional delegation.The House passed the bill...

SAN LEANDRO — An unlicensed motorcyclist struck by an Amtrak train last month, leaving him critically injured and his passenger dead after o...

Book clubs and bookshops around the Bay Area buzzed with excitement recently as two authors who happen to be best friends — Tommy Orange and...

Amid Gwyneth Paltrow’s latest, headline-making “press dump,” the actor/lifestyle guru didn’t just talk up her hot sex scenes with Timothée C...

Mumford & Sons is back in action.The U.K folk-pop band just released its fifth studio album, “Rushmere,” today and will support the effort...

Housing advocates and San Jose neighborhood groups are pushing back against a proposed Chick-fil-A at the corner of Race and West San Carlos...

SAN JOSE — Matthew Muller was sentenced to two lifetime prison terms Friday for holding women captive during two Santa Clara County home inv...

A historic military landmark in the Marin Headlands was vandalized with hate speech and hazardous chemicals, according to the National Park...

(Bloomberg / Carmen Reinicke) — The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February hi...

A Huntington Beach resident who heads a Latin music conglomerate and talent agency was found guilty Thursday, March 27 of conducting busines...

Federal agents raided an El Cajon business that regularly contracts with the U.S. military on Thursday on allegations that the company knowi...

A former San Diego-area Navy detective who was sentenced to federal prison last month for choking a sailor unconscious and lying about his m...

Federal officials have launched an investigation into whether the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is infringing on residents’ Second...

Hundreds of protests against Elon Musk and his role in President Donald Trump’s administration were expected to take place Friday and Saturd...

California will soon start using satellite technology to track down methane and other greenhouse gas emissions that may otherwise go undetec...

The economic outlook of California consumers has plummeted to a low last seen during the recovery from the Great Recession.My trusty spread...

Surfboard shaper Matt Biolos was in high school when he started jotting the word “Mayhem” on his binder, he said, drawing the logo that woul...

Willow Glen softball player Alanna Clincy is the Bay Area News Group’s girls high school athlete of the week for March 17-22.In online voti...

It’s about 20 minutes after UCLA’s second-round win over Richmond in the women’s NCAA Tournament and Cori Close has taken a seat alongside t...

When California motorists fill their tanks, they are often paying the nation’s highest gas prices, an average of $4.65 a gallon currently an...

Electricity is already too expensive in California, but it could get even worse if we can’t find a way to partner with our neighboring state...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and more than doubled the federal estate tax exemption rate...