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A coalition of Oakland municipal unions are calling on city officials to reverse a decision to help balance a massive budget shortfall by, in part, laying ...

A CHURCH-GOING AGRICULTURAL WORKER. An Echo Park man taking his son to school. A 16-year-old kid searching for work to support his family in Mexico.

People are being advised to keep warm coats and umbrellas on hand as the Bay Area’s frigid temperatures will merge with a ...

With the NBA All-Star game and the Chinese New Year Parade happening in San Francisco this coming weekend, public transit and roadways will be affected by ...

Renovations including an off-leash dog play area, a dog-free lawn and other amenities were recently unveiled in San Francisco’s Esprit Park in the city’s ...

A wayward coyote was rescued from a water retention pond south of Salinas last week.  The SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Center was contacted about the ...

Mayor Daniel Lurie announced the return of the San Francisco Fire Commission’s president and the appointment of a new member of the panel. Marcy Fraser, a ...

A TOP SILICON VALLEY education leader had five highly-paid admins and assistants working for her — with some making nearly $200,000 each a year in public ...

A federal has judge ruled this week that California and 21 other states will be spared for now from crippling cuts to key funding that universities rely ...

A Napa County man has been sentenced to about a year in jail for causing the death of two bicyclists in 2023. Porfirio Sanchez, 57, pleaded no contest to ...

San Francisco and Santa Clara County are suing the Trump administration for threatening to withhold federal funding from local jurisdictions with ...