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A 32-year-old convicted felon was arrested in the city of San Bruno last week on allegations of making explosives, selling narcotics and possessing illegal firearms. Ryan Beardsley was taken into custody at his residence in the 2600 block of Heather Lane on Tuesday after members of a San Bruno Police Department and...

A Northern California pension plan covering more than 138,000 service industry workers and retirees will receive $2.6 billion in federal relief funding, Rep. Mark DeSaulnier announced Thursday. The funding will go to the Northern California UFCW Plan, based in Concord, and is intended to help the plan continue paying...

Martha Stewart occasionally outsources her baked goods, including enjoying a ham and cheese croissant from Tartine San Francisco, a bakery known for its croissants and morning buns. You might expect domestic diva Martha Stewart to make all of her own baked goods as she has a wealth of recipes, including...

60 Minutes on Sunday profiled the “Ghost train” in California — the high-speed rail project that was approved by voters in 2008 and supposed to connect Los Angeles and San Francisco. Instead, the project has turned into an estimated $125 billion stain on the state, with Californians still waiting for the first tracks...

Every morning, Dr. Myra Ahmad chooses which of her two British shorthair cats to take to the office. Sometimes it’s 6-month-old Butter. Sometimes it’s 3-year-old Muffin. Sometimes both. The felines are loaded into a backpack to head to the Financial District, where Mochi Health, Ahmad’s telemedicine startup, is based.

LAFAYETTE, CALIFORNIA – If you went for your daily drive down Taylor Blvd in Lafayette and suddenly say hundreds of goats graving beside the road, you might think someone slipped something into your morning coffee. Nope, the goats are real!. There really are hundreds of goats out there right...

Oakland’s Library Commission has quietly set the stage for a potentially explosive debate in Fruitvale, taking its first formal step toward removing César E. Chávez’s name from the neighborhood library branch. The commission has placed a renaming proposal on its April 27 calendar, a procedural move that could kick...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland police are investigating a shooting early Saturday that left an 18-year-old man wounded. The shooting occurred just before 2:30 a.m. on 17th Street near Broadway, according to the East Bay Times. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the lower back and is reported to be in stable condition.

The house is the last of the Victorians that once lined Lake Merritt.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in solving the 2005 killing of a man in unincorporated Hayward. Kente Jones was 24 when he was shot on Monday, April 4, outside Quart House Liquors at 22596 Center Street, the Sheriff's Office said. Article continues below this...