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Want to eat your way around Oakland, recently dubbed the best food city in the U.S. by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler? Then grab your fo...

BRENTWOOD — Despite privacy concerns, the Brentwood City Council unanimously approved last week the purchase of 32 automatic license plate r...

We all know why the Warriors went from mediocre to title contenders in the course of a month.His name is Jimmy Butler, and his acquisition...

SAN JOSE — A Santa Clara County judge temporarily denied the Valley Transportation Authority’s request for an injunction to stop the ongoing...

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REDWOOD CITY — An inmate who was found deceased Saturday at San Mateo County’s Maple Street Correctional Center has been identified as one o...

Open AI and Google, having long trained their ravenous bots on the work of newsrooms like this one, now want to throw out long established c...

HAYWARD — A 41-year-old man died Sunday morning from injuries suffered when he was ejected from a pick-up truck that had crashed into a curb...

This cannot be phrased delicately, so we won’t bother with the attempt: Arizona has a brutally difficult path to the Final Four. Even the Sw...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Jung Hoo Lee’s status for Opening Day roster is now unclear.The Giants announced on Monday morning that Lee will underg...

Marin Coastal Range, North Bay Interior Mountains and North Bay Interior Valleys are included in a report for showers by the National Weathe...

The calendar may say spring is nearly here, but apparently it hasn’t told the meteorologists. Sunny skies one day, torrential rain and hail...

HAYWARD — A man was fatally shot Saturday night not far from City Hall, authorities said.Authorities are trying to identify the man.The sh...

Even as rain was set to fall again throughout the day Monday, the National Weather Service said signs remained in place that the Bay Area’s...

By Mark Gurman | BloombergApple Inc.’s top executive overseeing its Siri virtual assistant told staff that delays to key features have been...

Why are so many Californians grumpy about the economy?Ponder a quirky economic statistic called “real wages” – a yardstick comparing the gr...

They can’t help it, that trail of ants crawling up a kitchen cabinet. The determined critters head inside to escape the cold, wet winter day...

A Solano County Superior Court judge on Friday rescheduled proceedings for two followers of the cult-like Zizian group who are charged with...

DEAR JOAN: I have a 9-year-old indoor male cat, named Jasper. We also have another indoor cat and a dog.Jasper yowls at night and in the ea...

A new restaurant highlighting its owners’ Korean and Taiwanese culinary cultures is set to open in downtown Menlo Park this spring in late M...

PLEASANTON — Eleodoro Gonzalez has been on the move for the past two decades, bouncing from one Bay Area racetrack to another, as the sport...

MARTINEZ – Tensions flared red-hot at a town hall Thursday night, where residents accosted the Martinez Refining Company’s history of fires,...

Rajul Jain and Vivek Shivhare had been home searching for a few months when they found the perfect place in the hills above San Jose — a thr...

The first and only Tesla Janis Brown ever bought was a dark green Model S in 2012. It wasn’t just a car, the Sunnyvale resident recalled; it...

With Republican President Donald Trump’s return to office this year, Big Tech leaders from Silicon Valley’s largest companies — all fighting...