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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. California wakes up under a calm winter sky, where cool air brushes the Bay and early light reflects off quiet streets. California’s Weather Alert highlights a mild, mostly dry start for the San Francisco...

UC Law Professor David Levine explains the legal implications and accountability questions surrounding recent deadly shootings involving federal agents.

John Fogerty has been on bad terms with the other surviving members of Creedence Clearwater Revival, bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford, for decades. That being said, the former bandmates began as friends who first met when they attended the same junior high school. Videos by American Songwriter. In...

PLEASANT HILL, CALIFORNIA – When you hear about a vintage store that sells records or clothing, you probably think of some tiny, dusty, mom-and-pop spot with a couple of bins full of old vinyl. Here in the analog-obsessed Bay Area, though, vintage is big business. Case in point: Anastasia’s...

A large strike by Kaiser Permanente employees is set to begin Monday morning, with union leaders calling it an open-ended "unfair labor practice strike." Union leaders say the strike is driven by what they describe as a growing crisis caused by Kaiser’s failure to invest in safe staffing levels, timely access to...

Park or a road? Barring unforeseen lunacy, we’ll be voting on it again. But this is how San Francisco rolls. The Great Highway is poised to become San Francisco’s kidney dialysis

The Transamerica Pyramid has just pulled off something that once seemed unthinkable in San Francisco’s battered office market: a lease deal that sets the highest office rent ever recorded in the city. The record pricing, achieved on upper floors of the tower, comes at a moment when much of downtown is still wrestling...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two men were arrested on Saturday night after allegedly stabbing another man in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. San Francisco Police Department officers were sent just before 7:10 p.m. Saturday to the area of Leavenworth and Turk streets on reports of the stabbing and found the victim wounded...

ANTIOCH, Calif. - Family members on Saturday identified a 17-year-old girl who was found dead on the side of a road in Antioch on the previous morning. Joseph Flores said his daughter, Jeana Flores, was found lying on the shoulder of the road. The Antioch Police Department said a teen's body was found in the area of...

If you've ever walked past San Francisco City Hall or along Market Street on a chilly morning, you've probably seen it -- white clouds puffing up from grates and manholes like the street is exhaling.