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A new robot in Millbrae is pouring boba around the clock — no human required. The big picture: The machine, a product of the Hayward-based company Yo-Kai Express, debuted earlier this month at its first public location in the Bay Area, offering a glimpse at how automation could reshape one of the region's most...

22-acre parcel ignites housing fears in wealthy Bay Area town. A quiet Peninsula community is once again at the center of California’s housing battle. In affluent Woodside, leaders are weighing the future of a 22-acre state-owned site that could help meet state-mandated housing targets. For some residents, the...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Sacramento, California – A stretch of milder air could bring a noticeable late-winter warm-up to Northern California beginning Thursday, Feb. 26, as above-average temperatures settle across the region...

San Francisco woke up shivering today, with overnight lows near 42°F under mostly clear skies. The chill follows several days of stormy weather and briefly puts inland pockets and higher hilltops at risk of near‑freezing conditions. Morning commuters are reaching for an extra layer and keeping an eye out for slick...

Three skiers have died in just two weeks at the popular Lake Tahoe resort.

SummerHill Homes, a residential builder based in Alamo, California, has filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification with the state, signaling a complete shutdown of its operations as new housing demand collapses across the Bay Area. The filing warns of layoffs affecting the company’s entire workforce, with...

The Human Trafficking Task Force for Santa Clara County says of the 73 survivors, 10 were minors. "The youngest victim we saw was 12 years old, which is extremely tragic," said Lt. Singleton.

Lucid Motors, the electric vehicle maker headquartered in Newark, California, has abruptly eliminated hundreds of jobs at its Bay Area facility. The cuts, disclosed through a state-mandated layoff notification, land at a company that already faced federal scrutiny over how it handled worker separations during a...

San Jose quietly spent weeks sorting out a lost USB drive loaded with worker data before telling the people whose information was on it, leaving some city employees wondering why they were the last to know. The city notified current and former workers this month that a missing USB drive...

Gov. Gavin Newsom authorized a $590 million emergency bridge loan on Thursday to prevent Bay Area transit agencies from shuttering stations and slashing service. The financing supports the region’s four largest transit operators: BART, Muni, Caltrain and AC Transit. The agencies face a combined $800 million deficit,...