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Spring is in full swing by May, and while it’s a beautiful time of year, it can also be brutal for allergy sufferers. One of the most common...

TWIN PEAKS — Patrick Carney’s mother, Edith, always embraced his taste for the extravagant.That includes the tarps he and a dozen friends p...

Where does the buck stop on homelessness in California?Good luck answering that.Responsibility for building, sheltering and treating the G...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Colin Farrell, 49; Brooke Shields, 60; Tom Berenger, 76; Clint Eastwood, 95.Happy Birthday: Engage in whateve...

There’s a story haunting American politics.It’s a story told by right-wing populists like Donald Trump and JD Vance and left-wing populists...

Dear Eric: An old high school girlfriend of my husband’s (from more than 40 years ago) creates social media posts about him and tags him, in...

A year can make a transformational difference in the life of an institution.That’s what has happened at Harvard, where students and faculty...

DEAR HARRIETTE: How do I stop settling for emotionally unavailable people just because I’m afraid of being alone?Related Articles...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: A friend and I have a long-standing, semi-joking disagreement, but I do think my behavior bothers her, and I just don’t u...

DEAR ABBY: The floor I work on has a cluster of offices surrounding a central kitchen area. Fifteen of us share the appliances, including a...

Yosemite is under an updated heat advisory which was released by the National Weather Service on Friday at 10:34 p.m. The advisory is in eff...

De La Salle sprinter Jaden Jefferson arrived at California’s 105th state track and field championships on Friday night in Clovis as the top...

SANTA CLARA — Willow Glen found itself behind the eight-ball early in Friday’s CCS Division III championship game against Carmel.In the thi...

MORAGA — For the first time in nearly three decades, Liberty has reached the North Coast Section mountain top. Top-seeded Liberty captured...

Berean Christian earned a rematch against Northgate, with much higher stakes, but the result wasn’t much different from the teams’ game in l...

PLEASANT HILL – With two runners on with no outs in the bottom of the fourth inning of the North Coast Section Division III baseball champio...

By Terry Hacienda, The Fresh ToastMedical marijuana patients fall to the bottom of the list when it comes to the federal governmentPardons...

SUNNYVALE — A man was shot and killed Thursday in Sunnyvale, according to authorities.Related ArticlesSan Jose: Driver arres...

The beauty about customizable keyboards is that if you don’t like it, you can change it up. If the touch feels off, you can switch out the k...

Kyle Harrison has created quite the conundrum for the Giants.Harrison turned in a fine start as San Francisco beat the Miami Marlins at Loa...

SAN JOSE — Drew Diffenderfer didn’t need much run support on Saturday as No. 8 Santa Clara battled No. 2 St. Francis SCP for the Central Coa...

SAN JOSE – Standing on the bench inside Avicii Arena in Stockholm last week, San Jose Sharks coach Ryan Warsofsky admitted he didn’t witness...

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