Fremont CA

If you want a plate that tastes like somebody's grandma made it — without a downtown Oakland parking fight — San Leandro and Castro Valley are quietly doing the most. These are the spots locals keep in their back pocket: Black-owned soul food, Liberian peanut soup, New Orleans gumbo, Korean fried chicken. Kid-approved and mama-approved, and most of them are easy on the...

April has brought a difficult stretch of restaurant news to California. National chains are retrenching across the state, and one of the Peninsula's most quietly beloved fine-dining rooms is serving its final dinners this month. For Los Altos diners, the chain story is backdrop; the closer-to-home story is the one worth sitting with.

California's chain-restaurant map is shifting fast, and a few of the cuts land right on the Tri-Valley commute path. 1. Starbucks — Bishop Ranch City Center (San Ramon) The Impact: The only Starbucks inside Bishop Ranch City Center, at 6000 Bollinger Canyon Road, shut down permanently Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. Two Danville stores (398 Hartz Ave. and 11000 Crow Canyon Road) and three...

Weeknight after work, you don't want a scene. You want a counter seat, a hot bowl, maybe a small plate of something grilled, and out the door in 45 minutes. Santa Clara County quietly has one of the deepest ramen benches in California — Yelp put three spots from this area on its 2024 Top 100. Here is the solo weeknight short list, ranked by...

The Santa Clara County District Attorney on Monday announced charges against a then-17-year-old for the death and sexual assault of a 2-year-old boy nicknamed "Baby Jaxon."

Tony Tan stands near an automated license plate reader camera in San Jose, California. He is suing the city over its use of nearly 500 such cameras. IJ is a public interest law firm. We represent clients free of charge in cutting-edge litigation defending vital constitutional rights. You can join us by supporting our work here: ij.org/support.

Short loops, big bloom, free or $6 parking — here's where to take your crew or your girl this spring without an epic uphill grind. San Mateo County Parks just put out its spring wildflower guide and the message is clear: bloom windows run through May, weekends fill the lots fast, and a weekday or early Saturday morning is the move. Bonus — most of these...

Two San Francisco engineers quietly turned a roommate side hustle into one of California’s biggest cannabis distribution machines in less than a decade. What began as hand-delivered boxes from a Bay Area apartment has grown into a tech-driven wholesale marketplace, a fleet of delivery vans, and massive warehouses serving retailers across the state. Founders now say the company processes roughly $1 billion...

The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office has charged a San Jose man with murder, alleging that he drove drunk the wrong way down a Sunnyvale highway and killed a 52-year-old Mountain View woman on her way home from work at a Denny’s. Brian Burke, 34, is accused...

A deceased person was found near a SoMa freeway onramp Sunday night, not long after Caltrans construction crews completed their work on a section of eastbound I-80, which had caused some weekend congestion in the area. California Highway Patrol reportedly found a dead body near the freeway on-ramp at Harrison...