An ad campaign for a certain textbook publisher will appear on California State University campuses this spring in the form of memos to faculty, notices in student newspapers, and posters at bookstore counters. But the...
Long written off as too late to matter, California's Republican primary June 5 may turn out to matter a lot. A new Field Poll shows former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum just six points behind front-runner Mitt Romney,...
Dr. Robert Savio gave 10-year-old Yazmin Peña and her 7-year-old sister, Esmeralda, high-fives as he shared results of the girls' test results from a pilot project on pediatric obesity at Alameda County's Highland...
Thirteen critical minutes elapsed between the time a Berkeley hills homeowner called police about a trespasser and an attack by the intruder that left the man beaten to death, sources close to the investigation said...
State regulators and Pacific Gas and Electric Co. have revived a $3 million settlement over the utility's failure to produce gas-pipeline safety records after the San Bruno disaster - a fine that critics of the company...
Tim Koopman is the first of four generations of cattlemen to take a second job, outside of his Sunol ranch. While both of his adult children own small beef operations, they too earn their livings from careers other than...
It began over a glass of good red wine. Paul Muchowski thought he'd found a molecular compound that could slow down the damage done in the brains of people with neurodegenerative diseases. But he didn't know how to get...
Tea Party politics and trillion-dollar-plus federal budget deficits have turned this year's transportation bill upside down. Five-year transportation bills are traditionally bipartisan earmark fests that send hundreds...
Kristina Banuelos likes Oakland. She really does. The diversity, mild weather, abundance of culture, parks and public transit - that's what drew her there from Hayward six months ago. But now, reluctantly, she's moving...
The Bay Bridge reopened Sunday night - more than a day ahead of schedule - thanks to dry, mild weather over the weekend, Caltrans officials said. The bridge that carries the highest volume of commuter traffic in the Bay...
They are four people with radically different motives but one common purpose - locating the bodies of people slain more than a decade ago by a pair of methamphetamine-addled country boys known as the Speed Freak Killers....
The two-bedroom Noe Valley house had an unorthodox layout and looked like a 1980s Tahoe cabin. Taking those flaws into consideration, Realtor Bernard Katzmann listed it for $1.1 million at the inauspicious sales time of...
The two-bedroom Noe Valley house had an unorthodox layout and looked like a 1980s Tahoe cabin. Taking those flaws into consideration, Realtor Bernard Katzmann listed it for $1.1 million at the inauspicious sales time of...
The Bay Bridge reopened Sunday night - more than a day ahead of schedule - thanks to dry, mild weather over the weekend, Caltrans officials said. The bridge that carries the highest volume of commuter traffic in the Bay...
San Joaquin County They are four people with radically different motives but one common purpose - locating the bodies of people slain more than a decade ago by a pair of methamphetamine-addled country boys known as the...
Jan Samzelius has been seeking a loan modification on his Marina district house since 2009. He wants to negotiate directly with the mortgage holder - but he can't figure out who it is. He has made numerous trips to the...
The Roof Terrace at One Kearny shows why we're lucky that San Francisco requires downtown developers to provide space in their projects that is accessible to the public at large. It also is a case study in why the...
For Clara Tempongko, her daughter is frozen in time. She's still the vibrant 28-year-old who gathered their big family together for birthday parties, Christmas festivities or any reason to celebrate. Twelve years after...
