OAKLAND LEADERS SAID they’re all geared up to tackle the fire dangers associated with the Fourth of July holiday, the proliferation of illegal fireworks ...

The San Rafael City Council has approved up to $500,000 to help purchase a 1.65-acre property at 620 Canal St., officials said. The purchase advances ...

A perfect storm of bureaucratic dysfunction is threatening a plan two years in the making to bolster the badly understaffed Vallejo Police Department with ...

Every year, roughly 15 million bikes are thrown away in the U.S while 4,000 bikes get trashed in the Bay Area. The steel ...

AFTER THE CITY OF UKIAH last week announced it had paused plans to annex nearby unincorporated areas of Mendocino County, the county Board of Supervisors ...

THE BAY AREA AIR DISTRICT is now offering $2,000 to buy back gas-powered vehicles that are model year 2000 and older.   That’s a bump from the $1,500 it ...

PUBLIC TRANSPORT AGENCIES across the Bay Area experienced fare payment malfunctions on Tuesday morning following a region-wide malfunction of the Clipper ...

The SPCA Monterey County Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center recently set a new record, caring for 172 rescued wild animals in a single day, which ...

A SAN FRANCISCO REAL ESTATE development company finalized a $24 million deal Friday to buy the former Oakland Raiders’ training facility. Redco ...

These are among the new titles released by local writers, listed in alphabetical order by author names: (Courtesy She Writes Press) "Shot: A ...

IT HASN’T HAPPENED YET, but California is bracing for a demographic and economic hit under President Donald Trump’s multi-pronged effort to limit the ...

Debut novels, anticipated novels, memoirs, essays and other timely non-fiction titles by California writers and visiting ...