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The Bay Area woman killed in a Thanksgiving crash near Echo Summit has been identified as Peggy Liu, 50, of Fremont, the California Highway...

The Saratoga City Council unanimously voted on Dec. 18 to appoint Belal Aftab as mayor and Chuck Page as vice mayor for 2025.Aftab had been...

Dec. 10Grand theft, vehicle embezzlement: At 2:42 p.m., deputies recovered a stolen trailer and construction equipment at a residence in th...

By Bernard McGhee | Associated PressIt was a murder case almost everyone had an opinion on. O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century” over the...

Gabi Dedek is all smiles and excitement as she shows off her acrylic paintings during a recent session at AbilityPath’s Phil Egan Art Progra...

RICHMOND — Dreams of redeveloping Richmond’s Nystrom Village, a historic World War II housing site, are being resuscitated with the selectio...

EL GRANADA — A 39-year-old Half Moon Bay man was arrested in connection with an attempted homicide Wednesday on the San Mateo County coast,...

In the wake of Sheng Thao’s recall, at least seven people are now running to be Oakland’s next mayor. Each promises to turn the city around,...

Alhambra basketball player Samuel Gillaspy is the Bay Area News Group’s boys high school athlete of the week for Dec. 9-14.In online voting...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decree that by 2035 all new cars sold in California must be powered by batteries or other zero-emission systems has rece...

By Jocelyn Noveck | Associated Press“The making of a good building,” observed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, “is a great moral performance.”...

Thirty years ago this fall, California’s Latino voters coalesced into a multigenerational ethnic voting bloc for the first time in response...

By Jake Coyle | Associated PressFilms that are straightforwardly about death are rare, but movies that are about both death and sex are rar...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Jonah Hill, 41; David Cook, 42; Nicole de Boer, 54; Joel Gretsch, 61.Happy Birthday: Take your time, look for...

Dear Eric: My husband and I, both happily retired with good pensions and Social Security, make our weekly grocery trips together. We take tu...

DEAR HARRIETTE: My sister and I have not spoken for a few months, and I’m really heartbroken over it.Related ArticlesAdvice |...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Like so many others, I have a mother-in-law whom I can only tolerate for short periods of time.Related ArticlesAdvice...

DEAR ABBY: My fiance and I have been together for many years. I have never really liked his mother — for valid reasons. She belittles and is...

SAN JOSE — Mackenzie Blackwood faced Macklin Celebrini plenty of times in practice when they were both playing for the San Jose Sharks.But...

SAN JOSE – The San Jose Sharks had chances in the third period to take control of their game with the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday night a...

MILPITAS — An inmate at the Elmwood Correctional Facility died Tuesday night, according to authorities.Related ArticlesCrime and Public S...

Let’s start with the good news:The Dennis Schröder era — if you can call it an era — can only get better from here.That’s because Schröder...

HAYWARD — A 34-year-old man was arrested Thursday in connection with a double stabbing four months ago in Hayward that left one person dead...

Bay Area Home Report14860 Farwell Avenue – Google Street ViewA 1,850-square-foot house built in 1939 has changed hands. The property locat...

OAKLAND — PG&E customers face higher bills following state approval Thursday night for money to operate California’s only nuclear plant — af...