Is Vice President Kamala Harris on track to be the first Democratic president from California?

The preservation action fulfills a long-term vision to protect agriculture and build climate resiliency on the coast.

The Supreme Court case centers on the question of whether cities can fine or arrest people for camping in public spaces. The ruling will have nationwide implications for how local leaders manage homeless encampments.

Tesla admitted it illegally disposed of hazardous waste at its service centers in Bay Area cities including San Jose, Gilroy, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Berkeley, Dublin, Fremont, Burlingame, San Francisco and San Rafael, its energy centers, and its Fremont factory.

Travel website's analysis of top U.S. cities ranks San Jose No. 5, among 'the worst cities to live in for a zombie outbreak.'

The death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein means that Gov. Newsom has to decide who will fill her seat. He has said he would appoint a caretaker, not one of the three Democrats who are already running.

Attorney General Rob Bonta said undercover inspections of unsecured dumpsters at 16 different Kaiser facilities found sanitizers, medical tubes with body fluids, pharmaceuticals and over 10,000 paper patient records.

Yohanes S. Kidane was last seen Aug. 14 entering an Uber vehicle in San Jose, and cell phone, wallet and backpack were recovered near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center in San Francisco.

The county plans to join other California counties in a new experimental state program that targets methamphetamine addiction by rewarding patients with gift cards for negative drug tests, up to $599 per year.

Beginning Sunday, the tech billionaire started removing the bird logo that has been part of Twitter’s identity since 2006.

Mark Zuckerberg has used Meta’s might to push Threads to a fast start — but that may only work up to a point. In less than a day, Threads appeared to have taken the crown as the most rapidly downloaded app ever, easily outstripping ChatGPT. The newly released companion to Instagram aims at offering users an alternative to Twitter. 

Prospective jurors in Santa Clara County and the rest of the state are not paid on their first day of jury duty, then receive just $15 per day and 34 cents per mile, round trip from home. The new bill would offer the higher stipends for two years to low-income jurors in Monterey, Alameda, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Kern counties.

Californians accused of crimes spend an average of five days waiting to see a lawyer. Santa Clara County has a successful program that helps defendants keep their jobs and spend less time in jail.

The founders of Bay FC were behind the successful effort to bring women's professional soccer back to the Bay Area.

Prosecutors said the suspect misappropriated and diverted more than $7.3 million of investor funds for his own personal benefit, which included paying credit card debts; making cash withdrawals; paying for travel, luxury automobile and jewelry purchases; and paying utilities bills.

The bribes included $55,000 in payments for holiday parties a San Francisco public works manager hosted for friends, political supporters and select public works employees, from October 2017 through January 2020.