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SARATOGA — Willow Glen’s undefeated season is over.The Rams entered Saturday‘s CCS Open Division championship 28-0 and the No. 1 seed in th...

RICHMOND – A visible flare at the Chevron Richmond Refinery prompted a level one Community Warning System notification Saturday afternoon.T...

MORAGA — De La Salle has been waiting for this moment for a whole year.As third baseman Jacob Gray threw out College Park’s final runner at...

The popular San Mateo County Fair is back in full-swing this summer, ushering in a week of entertainment for community members of all ages....

Katia Nesper had to be on top of her pitching game Saturday as The King’s Academy aimed for its first Central Coast Section softball champio...

The Giants couldn’t ask more of Robbie Ray. Seven innings, one run, nine strikeouts — all of which amounted to a seventh consecutive quality...

By Bay City NewsPebble Beach Company and three environmental nonprofits announced a landmark partnership Thursday to safeguard water qualit...

By Bay City NewsThe Sonoma County Water Agency began inflating its rubber dam in the Russian River near Forestville on Thursday, kicking of...

Bay Area inland regions was placed under an updated heat advisory by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 12:21 p.m. The advisory is...

Delta is included in a heat advisory issued by the National Weather Service on Saturday at 12:17 p.m. The advisory is in effect until 11 p.m...

By Skylar Woodhouse | Bloomberg NewsPresident Donald Trump returned to office promising to easily fix generationally intractable problems,...

A cement truck crashed into two houses in a Daly City neighborhood Friday morning, displacing 14 people, according to local authorities.The...

OAKLAND — The suspect in the killing of a popular youth mentor was allowed to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, then sentenced to life...

After a tragedy, sometimes being there to support each other is all you can do. For the Livermore softball team, that has been the goal sinc...

SANTA CLARA – One week into organized team activities and we’re now qualified to make educated guesses at these rapid-fire questions in our...

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...