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A business park in South San Jose. Jack London Square in Oakland. The San Diego waterfront. Next door to a high school in Santa Barbara Coun...

TODAY’S WORD — FLOCCULENT (FLOCCULENT: FLOK-yoo-lent: Resembling wool, especially in loose, fluffy organization.)Average mark 47 wordsTime...

Dear Eric: I have known “Mary” for almost 10 years. We have a strictly business/professional relationship which requires us to meet several...

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been happily married for 15 years. My mother-in-law, “Pat,” a widow since 1997, has lived with us for the last...

SAN JOSE – Few NHL teams need some time away from the rink more than the San Jose Sharks.In their last game before the league pauses its sc...

CHICAGO — Jimmy Butler took the court for the first time as a Warrior Saturday night, and he did so with a new-look jersey.When Butler disc...

CHICAGO — Trading for Jimmy Butler started a sprint to the finish line in the Warriors’ last 31 games, with the break tape being a playoff s...

Officials in the South Bay opened emergency warming shelters Saturday evening as cold temperatures descended on the region.In San Jose, an...

CHICAGO — Jimmy Butler has played five games in the past seven weeks, hasn’t practiced with the Warriors and wasn’t even permitted to partic...

OAKLAND — A Stockton man who was fatally shot here in late December may have been meeting someone at the park where he was killed, authoriti...

A fire broke out in a San Jose home early Saturday, displacing seven residents and killing a cat, according to officials.The fire was repor...

SAN JOSE – Forward Klim Kostin has been activated off of injured reserve and will be available today when the San Jose Sharks host the Dalla...

By Bay City NewsA flood advisory for a small portion of Sonoma County was issued by the National Weather Service on Saturday morning.Relat...

STANFORD – Stanford Stadium has hosted 50 Big Games, the 1985 Super Bowl, FIFA Men’s and Women’s World Cups – and now the Stanford Softball...

EMERYVILLE — Officials cited two store clerks this week for selling alcohol to minors.The Emeryville Police Department, along with agents f...

The Super Bowl is here, but perhaps not for long. In a few years, it could be there — it could be next Sunday.NFL commissioner Roger Goodel...

DUBLIN – For the last year, Dublin has been listening to all the noise. The Gaels lost the 2024 North Coast Section Division I championship...

Everyone who knew Nathan Louie probably has a dozen stories they could tell about him. I’ve been thinking about many of mine this week since...

The Trump administration is subjecting the U.S. constitutional system to a stress test. We’re on the treadmill, with instruments recording e...

The devastation from the Southern California fires should cause our county leaders to rethink their visions of the past and recognize that R...

When the Nation’s Report Card was released last month, it reiterated a hard truth about our education system today: We are failing our stude...

When Donald Trump, speaking beside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, announced last week that the United States would be taking o...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Seth Green, 51; Mary Steenburgen, 72; Robert Klein, 83; Nick Nolte, 84.Happy Birthday: Shake off the negative...

Dear Eric: My husband’s parents are divorced. In the last year or so (I’ve been married to their son for nine years) they have started commu...

DEAR HARRIETTE: I have a roommate who is incredibly nosy, and it’s driving me crazy.Related ArticlesAdvice | Harriette Cole...