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Your #ALCOFIREFIGHTERS arrived at the Palisades and Eaton fires 5 days ago and were immediately put to work combating structure and vegetati...

Terence Blanchard is set to take centerstage at the SFJAZZ Center.The vastly accomplished trumpeter/bandleader/composer — who also happens...

The Sierra Nevada community of Downieville is again on alert, this time because of mountain lions in a residential neighborhood.Related Art...

How will the California economy handle the Los Angeles wildfires’ early repair estimates running between $50 billion to $150 billion?Well,...

Close your ears, Ernest Hemingway: The fastest growing segment of the cocktail market is the one with drinks that … don’t actually have any...

By Alexandra Skores | CNNThe Christmas Eve stowaway who boarded a Delta Air Lines flight to Hawaii slipped past both a TSA ID check and a g...

After 12 years, Kimberly Mohne Hill knew it was time.Hill is a fixture in the South Bay’s theater scene, as a busy director, sought-after d...

Jan. 12TRAFFIC HAZARD: 3:34 p.m. at Los Gatos Boulevard and Shannon Road. A group of juveniles were doing wheelies on bikes, blocking the r...

OAKLAND — A century-old highrise in Oakland has been seized by the property’s lender in a deal that provides a grim reminder of the ailments...

Residents of the only city in the West Valley without government-funded automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) will need to wait even longe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is heading into a potentially explosive Senate...

SAN JOSE — Manuel Jaimes, a 21-year-old student at De Anza College, immigrated from Venezuela to pursue an economics degree in the South Bay...

RICHMOND — More than $9.5 million in federal grant funding has been awarded to the city of Richmond to upgrade pedestrian, bike and street s...

  Bay Area News Group boys basketball Top 20(Mercury News & East Bay Times)(Records through Monday)No. 1 ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN (11-1) Previ...

If you’re going to live the California dream, you’ll never escape the nightmares.I’m a boy-dreamer from Pasadena. The second morning after...

In less than a week, the man who promised to be “a dictator on Day One” will take the presidential oath of office for the second time.Relat...

If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a pa...

The wind-driven wildfires that devoured thousands of homes in Los Angeles County, turning whole neighborhoods into moonscapes, have yet to b...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Dave Grohl, 56; Jason Bateman, 56; LL Cool J, 57; Holland Taylor, 82.Happy Birthday: Your ideas will be on ta...

Dear Eric: For the past 10 years we have always “been there” for our grandchildren (now 18 and 16) and my son and daughter-in-law.Related A...

DEAR HARRIETTE: I’ve been feeling overwhelmed at work.Related ArticlesAdvice | Harriette Cole: My husband wants his whole f...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am currently staying with a family friend and her husband for a few days while visiting my hometown.Related Articles...

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 14, the 14th day of 2025. There are 351 days left in the year.Today in history:On Jan. 14, 2013, cyclist Lance Arms...

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I rent half of a house owned by my sister and brother-in-law.Related ArticlesAdvice | Dear Abby: My...

By Gary Klein, Los Angeles TimesGLENDALE, Ariz. — Now that’s what you call making yourself right at home, even if it was nearly 400 miles a...