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By Andrew DeMillo, Jeff Martin and Safiyah Riddle | Associated PressArkansas authorities are looking at whether a job in the prison kitchen...

By Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss | Associated PressIsrael has accepted a new U.S. proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Hamas, the White H...

Cynde Soto, a quadriplegic who requires around-the-clock care, has been on Medi-Cal for most of her life. Recently, she came into a modest i...

By Julia Frankel and Natalie Melzer | Associated PressJERUSALEM — Israel said Thursday it would establish 22 more Jewish settlements in the...

The transfer portal has complicated many aspects of college sports, including a seemingly unrelated event: the deadline for college players...

SAN FRANCISCO — Five gray whales have died in and around the San Francisco Bay over the past week, bringing the total number of whales that...

Boy bands will never go out of style because they just change with the times. What was once Osmonds, Jacksons and Monkees evolved into New K...

One of the provisions in the “big, beautiful” budget bill would ban states from regulating AI for the next 10 years.Related Articles...

By John Fritze, CNNThe Supreme Court on Thursday limited the scope of environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects in a decision...

Budget-conscious home seekers who need any whiff of hope may cheer the latest Case-Schiller national price index.The good news is that this...

SAN JOSE — A tech hub is being pitched on the site of a failed housing development in San Jose, a project that could tie into Silicon Valley...

Got your weekend plans? We have some nifty ideas, from awesome movies and shows to bodacious burgers.Related ArticlesThe Bay...

Residents of a homeless encampment on Georgia Street — less than a week after receiving notice of a city-allocated encampment sweep — watche...

Tessa Hulls still doesn’t fully understand why her family chose to move to a tiny town in West Marin. Of all the places, how would two immig...

From the sizzing La Onda festival lineup to “La Boheme” and the Bay Area Book Festival, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this we...

SAN MATEO — It started with three Hillsdale High School students vandalizing a classmates’ house and ended in gunfire.Now, a 54-year-old fa...

BRENTWOOD – Tattoo studios may soon be allowed to operate in downtown Brentwood after the City Council took the first step toward amending t...

By Levi Sumagaysay | CalMattersCalifornia’s port traffic is beginning to look worse now, under the effects of President Donald Trump’s fick...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google is pursuing the sale of 40 acres of its Mountain View properties for possible housing developments as the search gian...

The “nut free” butter snack one of our 7-year-olds got at their on-site after-school program had almost as much sugar as four sugar packets....

Last month, RAND, a prominent think tank based in Santa Monica, published an exhaustive study on housing costs that devastatingly proves how...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Riley Keough, 36; Melanie Brown, 50; Rupert Everett, 66; Annette Bening, 67.Happy Birthday: Pay attention. Th...

Now is the time for the Democratic Party to get serious about its oldsters problem.The furor over former President Joe Biden’s cognitive is...

Dear Eric: Twenty-six years ago, my mother worked with a married woman who was pregnant with her fourth child but couldn’t afford to add ano...

DEAR HARRIETTE: My mom’s friend is on the hunt for a nice wife for his son and thinks I’d be a great fit.Related ArticlesHar...