Fremont CA

The next ten weeks stack five named festivals, six FIFA World Cup matches at Levi's Stadium, a 50th-anniversary edition, and a Wednesday-night jazz series across Campbell, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, and Los Gatos.

You catch the northbound at the Menlo Park station on Merrill Street before 8 AM. Rod tube in hand, tackle bag at your feet, no coffee yet. Twenty minutes later you step off at Burlingame. Twenty-nine minutes after that you're standing on a public pier at the edge of San Francisco Bay, cut anchovies in a Ziploc, the morning rising tide doing the...

After-dinner walks have a different rulebook than weekend afternoon outings. The sun is going down, the kids are half-fed and half-feral, and you need a path that's flat, lit enough to feel safe, close enough to skip a 25-minute drive, and ideally stays open past 7 p.m. so you're not racing a sunset gate back to the parking lot. Most...

By 8:15 on a Saturday, the espresso machine at Devout Coffee is already pulling shots, the side patio has a few early regulars with newspapers, and one block east the Niles Town Plaza parking lot is filling up with vendors hauling produce crates and folding tables.

Local high school students who hope to find a part-time summer job that provides useful work experience and looks great on a resume or college application have just a few days to apply for a paid summer internship with the City of Alameda. The deadline is Thursday, May 7.

Rain is already falling in the North Bay. Here’s when it will spread to San Francisco and Oakland.

The famed soprano previewed her album “The Fiddle and the Drum” in a Cal Performances recital over the weekend rich with intimacy and range.

Local families were horrified to find out that more than two dozen bronze memorial plaques commemorating their loved ones have been stolen from benches at Jean Sweeney Open Space Park.

Money is pouring into the Alameda County District Attorney race, mostly to the incumbent, Ursula Jones Dickson. And the DA is getting a lot of support from prosecutors in her own office. Ursula Jones Dickson, Pamela Price, and Gopal Krishan debated in Oakland. Hear their views on victim’s rights, juvenile...

Notable April closures included Eat Americana in San Francisco, Chez TJ in Mountain View and more.