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DEAR ABBY: My husband bought me a beautiful diamond ring for our 35th anniversary. People often ask how much it cost and why we would spend...

SAN FRANCISCO — Logan Webb pitched eight scoreless innings, matching his season high, but the Giants lost to the San Diego Padres, 1-0, in 1...

By Amy Hansen, The Fresh ToastCancer is devastating diagnosis, but here all the ways medical cannabis can helpOver 2 million people are di...

SAN FRANCISCO — In the midst of their offensive struggles, the Giants are getting a much-needed reinforcement.First baseman and corner outf...

389 Starlite Way – Google Street ViewThe property located in the 300 block of Starlite Way in Fremont was sold on April 1, 2025 for $1,878,...

There will be no shortage of Bay Area teams in this year’s California Interscholastic Federation Northern California regional baseball and s...

For years, the people living in old tents and decrepit RVs on the edges of San Jose’s Columbus Park have been fending off city officials try...

SANTA CLARA – The 49ers try, try, and try again to unearth a top-tier defensive end to pair with Nick Bosa. It’s an annual exercise, well-in...

In a major development affecting one of the most contentious land use battles in the Bay Area over the past decade, a Palo Alto environmenta...

OAKLAND — An Antioch man has been sentenced to six years in state prison for killing his sister and his boyfriend in what his lawyer called...

220 Highland Oaks Drive – Google Street ViewThe property located in the 200 block of Highland Oaks Drive in Los Gatos was sold on April 17,...

Our ridiculously early rankings for the 2025-26 season were initially published after the national championship game two months ago. Then ca...

250 Cerro Chico – Google Street ViewThe spacious property located in the 200 block of Cerro Chico in Los Gatos was sold on April 23, 2025 f...

Rick & Ann’s Restaurant, a beloved Berkeley spot for comfort food that opened in 1989, is closing down. The final day will be Aug. 3, owner...

SAN JOSE — A family member’s recent confession has definitively linked a long-former Branham High School student to the fatal stabbing of a...

If the goal of a baseball season is genuinely as simple as winning more series than you lose, the San Francisco Giants just capped a strong...

A two-car head-on crash in eastern Contra Costa County last month killed a Stockton woman and a two-car freeway crash in the western part of...

After only hours of being available, tickets to the Gilroy Garlic Festival sold out this weekend.The Gilroy Garlic Festival is coming back...

The second annual Festival La Onda by BottleRock is in the books, drawing tens of thousands of fans to the Napa Valley Expo in downtown Napa...

A heat wave that rolled through through the Bay Area for a couple of days and fouled up the air was history by Sunday. But the air quality M...

CLOVIS —After Clara Adams appeared to have become a state track champion Saturday night, controversy erupted to mar what was thought to be a...

SAN JOSE — A big San Jose hotel has been put up for sale by a real estate company that had halted payments on the loan for two San Francisco...

The Republican-led House of Representatives has passed its “One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” but before you dig into the more than 1,000-word tomb...

May 19Battery: At 12:33 a.m., deputies responded to a disturbance at a residence in the 13000 block of Shadow Oaks Way. An investigation re...

SAN FRANCISCO — Through the Golden State Valkyries’ first five games of the season, second-year guard Kate Martin struggled to find her role...