San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has named Battalion Chief Dean Crispen as the city’s new fire chief. Lurie, who was sworn in as mayor on Wednesday, had ...

ON THEIR FIRST opportunity since a new law took effect Jan. 1, seven casino-owning Native American tribes have filed suit in Sacramento County against ...

IT WAS 7:45 IN THE MORNING, and five young men stood in a driveway in the Berkeley hills, staring at Michelle Falise’s roof and strategizing. The crew was with Yellowjacket Heating & Cooling Services ...

There are among the new titles released by Bay Area and Northern California writers, listed in alphabetical order by author ...

Residents in parts of central and southern Marin County could soon see their trash collection fees rise under a proposal being considered by the county ...

A new policy research center was announced this week by University of California, Berkeley’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.  The Climate ...

Environmentalists scored a major victory this week when the National Park Service agreed to revise its land management plan at Point Reyes National ...

An animal rights group lauded Oakland Zoo for freeing its last elephant and sending it to a sanctuary in October. In the “10 Worst Zoos for Elephants ...

Thousands of dollars’ worth of tools were stolen from a University of California, Berkeley satellite campus in Richmond over the weekend, days after the ...

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors officially swore in two new members on Tuesday, making it a female majority on the board. Former congresswoman ...

Retired congresswoman Barbara Lee announced her intention to run for Oakland mayor Wednesday, two days after filing initial paperwork with the city ...

Law enforcement officials said that Matthew Muller — the man at the center of the Vallejo kidnapping case that was outlined in the Netflix documentary ...