GOOGLE WILL PAY $5 million less than it promised to a fund intended to help struggling California news outlets stay afloat, less than a year after ...

San Francisco ranked sixth nationally this year on an annual park rating index, one spot ahead of last year’s seventh-place finish. Fremont ranked 38th, ...

THE OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT this week voted to reverse course on a decision to potentially gut afterschool and summer programs that roiled the ...

A FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM to help prevent wildfires and restore forests in Mendocino County has been eliminated under proposed cuts by President Donald Trump’s ...

THE MARIN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS unanimously approved a nearly $866 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year that includes adding firefighters to ...

CALIFORNIA’S LOCAL NEWSROOMS got attention at the state Capitol this week, when the Senate Budget Committee, chaired by Sen. John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, ...

Alameda County has launched a three-year, $5.8 million Diaper Bank program to provide monthly access to diapers and baby wipes for families with young ...

BAY AREA RESIDENTS who emailed their officials in the past few years may be surprised to learn their correspondence could train a company’s AI for future ...

In her new collection, San Francisco short story writer Lori Ostlund delivers nine tales about finding your place, exploring ...

With the theme “Changing the Narrative,” the 11th Bay Area Book Festival comes to downtown Berkeley on May 31 and June 1, ...

The former executive director of a Stockton-based junior golf nonprofit has been charged with six counts of embezzlement and forgery for allegedly ...

A WAVE OF LAWSUITS, large and small, have been waged against Vistra Corporation, PG&E and many of their associated companies in the months following ...