THIS SPRING, the National Institutes of Health quietly began terminating programs at scores of colleges that prepared promising undergraduate and graduate ...

A SAN JOSE GRANT PROGRAM aimed at reducing social isolation among the city’s older adult population is on the chopping block amid a multimillion-dollar ...

Oakland’s Castlemont High School community is mourning the loss of one of their own after a beloved teacher and academic coach was killed by a suspect ...

IN FOURTH GRADE, Nico Lee dressed up as Miss Hannigan, the heartless head of the orphanage in the classic Broadway musical “Annie,” for Halloween. He put ...

The Oakland Unified School District Board of Education has announced an interim replacement for departing superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell. Denise ...

CUPERTINO OFFICIALS ARE PULLING the plug on studying how to improve safety on one of the West Valley’s busiest roads. The Cupertino City Council voted 3-1 ...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY began a $23 million renovation of its juvenile hall this week despite a declining population and shorter stays for detainees.  The ...

Read “Ulysses.” That’s the subject of “Ulysses in 80-Reading James Joyce Masterpiece in 80 Days,” a podcast and international ...

Health officials in the Bay Area advised residents on Friday to be aware of three places that were potentially exposed to a case of measles that was ...

WHEN I THOUGHT of retirement when I was younger, I had a hazy notion of living by a beach between world-traveling jaunts to places on my bucket list. I ...

Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit trains will begin taking passengers to and from a new station in Windsor starting Saturday, the first of three stations ...

Historical fiction, debut novels, memoirs, fantasy and non-fiction by California writers and visiting authors are in this ...