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CONCORD — For Ygnacio Valley, it’s all about controlled chaos. The goal for the Wolves is to make their opponents tired and uncomfortable w...

LIVERMORE: COWBOYS WIN EARN FIRST NCS WIN IN OVER 30 YEARSDespite not winning a league game in 12 years, Livermore accomplished something t...

Boys basketballOpen DivisionThursday’s opening roundNo. 1 De La Salle (25-4), byeNo. 2 Salesian (25-2), byeNo. 4 Dublin (23-5) at 5 No....

The cannabis industry has been on fire in 2024—not literally, of course, but its growth has been explosive. With legalization sweeping acros...

SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks are all too used to being out of the playoff picture at this juncture of the season and were probably guilty...

PHOENIX — For roughly a decade, Bruce Bochy counted on Buster Posey as the backbone of the San Francisco Giants on the field. Now, entering...

MARTINEZ — After deliberating for less than a day, a Contra Costa jury on Tuesday convicted a 41-year-old San Pablo man of murdering his wif...

East Bay Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks and state Senator Christopher Cabaldon, a Yolo County Democrat, on Tuesday brought back a proposal to pla...

Schools and colleges have until the end of the month to dismantle diversity programs and practices or risk losing federal funding, the U.S....

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Bay Area News Group girls basketball Top 20(Mercury News & East Bay Times)No. 1 ARCHBISHOP MITTY (20-3)Previous ranking: 1Last week: Bea...

Bay Area News Group boys basketball Top 20(Mercury News & East Bay Times)(Records through Monday)No. 1 ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN (22-1)Previous...

Fresh off hosting an All-Star Game that celebrated the most important member of the Warriors’ dynasty, Stephen Curry, the team will pay trib...

It’s not immediately clear whether Meghan Markle’s international travels ever included a visit to a small, 13th-century town on the Spanish...

The Greater Lake Tahoe Area and Greater Lake Tahoe Area are the focus of a lake wind advisory issued at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday by the Nationa...

By Graham Lee Brewer and Curt Anderson | Associated PressSUMTERVILLE, Fla. — Native American activist Leonard Peltier was released from a F...

By Devi Shastri | Associated PressThe measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 58 cases as of Tuesday, and eight people in neighbo...

By Collin Binkley | Associated PressWASHINGTON — The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to elimina...

When Blake Lively was promoting “It Ends With Us,” she faced a torrent of online criticism for appearing to minimize the film’s focus on a w...

In some ways, video games have an advantage over blockbuster films.While the latest big budget Hollywood release provides emotional roller...

SAN JOSE — A European real estate titan now plans to keep a big chunk of its portfolio of shopping centers in the United States — possibly i...

The Bay Area job market, a long-time engine for California’s economy, has sputtered badly in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, reflectin...

In the early 1980s, when radicchio was just appearing in restaurants like Chez Panisse and Fourth Street Grill in Berkeley, I had a vegetabl...

On Saturday Rep. Mike Thompson blasted unelected billionaire Elon Musk for ordering the Department of Agriculture to waste a decade of resea...