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HOUSTON – Draymond Green came up short in his bid to win a second Defensive Player of the Year award when results were announced on Thursday...

San Jose’s outdoor festival season gets underway this weekend with a couple of longstanding favorites: Nikkei Matsuri in the historic Japant...

Alijah Arenas, the Los Angeles Daily News boys basketball player of the year, was seriously injured in a Thursday morning car accident.Chat...

OAKLAND — Federal prosecutors are continuing to gather evidence in the corruption case involving former Mayor Sheng Thao and three other def...

4165 Hidden Valley Lane – Google Street ViewA house located in the 4100 block of Hidden Valley Lane in San Jose has a new owner. The 1,508-...

With summer wildfire season just around the corner, California’s fire officials on Thursday unveiled a powerful new tool to help reduce the...

Garlic shrimp. Caldo verde. Linguica. Bacalhau.For the third year, the Consulate of Portugal in San Francisco and the Portuguese Trade and...

By one measure, California’s economy is thriving. By other metrics? Not so much.The Golden State’s economy reached another milestone last y...

A somewhat rainy weekend is likely to wet down things far more in the South Bay and Central Coast then it will inland or along the North Bay...

Approximately 2,500 players have entered the transfer portal this spring, a record number that stretches the imagination.And that’s just fo...

A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from withholding federal funds from jurisdictions that have declared themselves as “sanc...

LOS ANGELES  — The State Bar of California has disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed wi...

As winter turned to spring in early 2020, Laura Davis and Tjardus Greidanus were working on a film about vaccines. They were focused on the...

With San Jose again heavily investing in addressing homelessness, city leaders believe they are making tangible progress and finally moving...

MARTINEZ — A man was convicted of murdering a transgender woman in a crime that went unsolved for nearly 30 years, until a DNA match, author...

CONCORD — Trade relations between the United States and Canada may be fraught, but a Canadian tycoon is showing an appetite for Bay Area rea...

From the moment the band took the stage on Friday (April 18) to kick off its spring tour in Seattle until it waved goodbye to fans in San Fr...

SANTA CLARA — When the old gang got back together Tuesday, they must have been wondering where everybody else went.Robert Saleh, the former...

A trial date has been scheduled in the death penalty case against a 34-year-old Sacramento man charged with the January 2021 killing of two...

HOUSTON – Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga, wearing a businesslike tie and button-up, was so insistent that he was prepared for Wednesday n...

Let me begin by saying that you should never make an important decision based solely on information you get from an AI chatbot like ChatGPT,...

There’s only one place outside of California where you’ll spend more of your paychecks on housing.My trusty spreadsheet calculated how much...

OAKLAND — A 31-year-old man was fatally shot Wednesday night at an East Oakland gas station, authorities said.The name of the man, an Oakla...

The Foothill Falcons scored two runs in the home half of the fifth and four more in the sixth to erase a three-run deficit and upset Granada...