THE EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT is changing how it inspects watercraft to better fight off invasive mussel species.  The district has long required ...

THE CALIFORNIA STATE RENTERS’ CAUCUS announced this week a package of bills aimed at expanding renter protections, who make up nearly half of the state’s ...

The Oakland Unified School District will move forward under new leadership after the Board of Education voted Wednesday to remove its superintendent — a ...

MOTORSPORTS LEGEND BOBBY RAHAL has been named grand marshal for the Monterey SportsCar Championship IMSA race at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca next ...

Nonstop flights are starting in July between Napa County Airport and two locations in Southern California, county officials announced. The public charter ...

Caltrans is asking for the public’s help following a series of illegal hazardous material dumpings along U.S. Highway 101 in Mendocino County, the agency ...

A MAN CONVICTED of a murder in Antioch from decades ago was denied in his efforts last week to get a long-missing recording that allegedly captured ...

SILICON VALLEY IS KNOWN for technological innovation, but its jails are running on paper — and it’s fueling a public safety crisis. Santa Clara County is ...

RACHELLE HOLMES was a teenager when she first started noticing that her peers and friends from San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood were ...

Formerly homeless residents from three big encampments are already moving into a newly converted transitional housing project in West Oakland after the ...

The Stakes” is a UC Berkeley Journalism project on executive orders and actions affecting Californians and their communities. SINCE PRESIDENT DONALD ...

Marin County’s water supply could get a healthy boost during wet years if a pipeline project initiated this week by the Marin Municipal Water District ...