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A 1907 Queen Anne Victorian at 137 Elm Street in San Mateo — the birthplace of banking trailblazer Claire Giannini Hoffman and a former residence of Bank of America founder A.P. Giannini — has hit the market for $2.075 million, down $300,000 from its original asking price. The 2,380-square-foot home sits on a 9,000-squ

Clam chowder along the California coast is more than a bowl of soup. It is a reason to plan a drive, pull over at a fishing pier, and settle in with a warm bowl and an ocean view. Some of these spots have been serving chowder for decades, while others...

Debbie Brown spent 20 years working at San Francisco General Hospital and decades more calling the city home, but this past spring, she became homeless for the first time in her life. The 72-year-old was evicted from her longtime SRO apartment on Valencia Street on May 13, and by mid-August, she was boarding a red-eye

LAFAYETTE, CALIFORNIA — A better connection between downtown Lafayette and BART is taking shape, with construction moving ahead on a project that will bring an improved walking and biking route, a public plaza, and more bicycle parking to the station’s south entrance. The Lafayette Town Center Pathway and...

A grieving husband dining out in Oakland's Chinatown returned to his rental car to discover it had been broken into — and that his late wife's ashes, which he had been keeping with him, were gone. The burglary has prompted public pleas for the return of the remains, according to a report from KTVU.

A Solano County jury has found 59-year-old Oakland resident Jeff Hawkins guilty on ten felony counts stemming from a hostage standoff that unfolded on Del Rio Court in Vacaville back on May 10, culminating in a dramatic second-story ladder rescue of a woman held against her will. Hawkins now remains in custody without

Three of the four passengers killed in a plane crash in Alaska Wednesday were from the Bay Area. The small plane crashed into the water next to a remote coastal town in Alaska. All four people on board were killed, including 65-year-old Ronald Schmidt and 20-year-old Lance Schmidt, both from San Jose. The oldest victim

A fatal crash near McKee Road prompted the Bay Area Midnight Riders group to suspend its public Friday and Saturday night meets.

The family of the 81-year-old man killed in a hit-and-run crash in Richmond gathered on Friday to honor and remember him. The family of 81-year-old Rafael Delgado says the community has wrapped its arms around them in the wake of his death. On Friday, they gathered at the spot where the beloved father and grandfather w

A woman said she paid $30,000 to rent a home that belonged to a UC Berkeley professor. But he had been killed months before in an alleged murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by his ex-wife.