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WEST SACRAMENTO — The Giants flew out of Phoenix with much-needed good vibes. Camilo Doval redeemed himself on Wednesday, and Robbie Ray sho...

WEST SACRAMENTO — As the Giants made their way into the first-base dugout at Sutter Health Park on Friday evening, a remnant from the previo...

Thousands of spectators gathered in downtown Danville to celebrate 249 years of freedom during the annual Fourth of July parade along San Ra...

About 75 Oakland Fire Department personnel responded Friday evening to a major fire engulfing a commercial warehouse in East Oakland near th...

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By Darlene Superville and Nicholas Ricciardi | Associated PressWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed his package of tax breaks and spe...

SAN JOSE — They came representing various colors on Friday, some gaudily dressed, others barely so; some carrying signs, others holding flag...

By Hannah Fingerhut | Associated PressTexas Hill Country was beset by death and disaster Friday after multiple fatalities were reported fro...

ALAMEDA — A local resident was charged with felony child abuse after he allegedly left his 1-year-old daughter in a bathtub with running wat...

By SUSAN HAIGH | Associated PressFamed competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut reclaimed his title Friday at the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of J...

By Hanna Arhirova | Associated PressKYIV, Ukraine — Waves of drones and missiles targeted Kyiv overnight in the largest aerial assault sinc...

Here are five things we enjoyed about the hit Broadway jukebox musical “& Juliet,” which runs through June 27 at the Orpheum Theatre in San...

The Athletics have fallen and can’t get up.The Giants, even after splitting a four-game series in Arizona, are nine games back of the Los A...

SANTA CLARA — Levi’s Stadium had its most recent dress rehearsal for next year’s FIFA men’s World Cup matches on Wednesday when it hosted Me...

OAKLAND — Prosecutors here have filed gun charges against a local resident and his girlfriend, after police identified him as a suspect in y...

BRENTWOOD — Andrew Lonsdale was in the middle of creating next fall’s workout plan for the Liberty baseball program when he got an email fro...

PHOENIX — Two decades later, Vance Wilson still remembers the poster.Inside the visiting clubhouse at the ballpark formerly known as Jacobs...

Even now, six months into President Trump’s second term, there’s a tendency to disregard his sometimes fiery rhetoric as mere big talk. Amer...

DUBLIN — He says his girlfriend shot herself in the head while they were alone in a Fremont hotel, but prosecutors contend he’d done such a...

MARTINEZ – Across the Bay Area, county officials responsible for emergency planning are bracing for the economic aftershocks should Presiden...