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SJSU opens downtown dorm rooms: Historic San Jose hotel to house 700 college...
HUNDREDS OF COLLEGE students will soon be able to call downtown San Jose home, thanks to the quick renovations of a historic hotel. Spartan Village on the Paseo, formerly the south tower of the Signia...
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Former UFC champion Cain Velasquez pleads no contest in 2022 vigilante...
Former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has pleaded no contest to a vigilante shooting spree that wounded an unintended target and sprayed bullets near an elementary...
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Bay City Books: New Books from Bay Area Authors – August 2024
New books, from Bay Area and Northern California authors, listed by release date The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (San Francisco)Simon &...
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‘A scary situation’: Passenger on-board smoking train details lack of...
Major delays were caused on BART on Monday afternoon after dark smoke billowed from a Richmond-bound train near MacArthur Station, but one passenger on board said that no one from BART told anyone on...
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Day 1: Rally meets reality — The whole world is watching, depending on who’s...
PERHAPS THE ONLY thing less reliable than on-the-ground estimates of crowd size are predictions of the size of expected crowds.At Union Park, the coalition for the March on the DNC held the widely...
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Review: ‘Mayor of the Tenderloin’ depicts Del Seymour’s victory over misery
Del Seymour, a man who brought job readiness skills to the down and out in San Francisco, is celebrated “Mayor of the Tenderloin,” a new book by San Francisco writer Alison Owings. Seymour was a drug...
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Robots roaming Market Street signal pending arrival of Amazon’s new...
Amazon said this week it has deployed a squadron of robots to roam Market Street in San Francisco.The little black boxes on wheels look similar to the robots tested by food delivery companies. But...
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Suspect arrested in case of Oakland man shot while sleeping, Housing...
An arrest has been made in a case of a man who was shot while sleeping in Oakland earlier this month, authorities said last week. Damon Roberts, 20, of Oakland, was arrested on Aug. 12 in Richmond by...
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Extremely rare concept car reduced to ashes in Monterey; Ford vehicle was...
A $1 million vintage concept car was destroyed in a fire along with the trailer it was being towed in Sunday in Monterey, minutes after it had been on public display at a nearby car show.Crews with the...
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‘This is a big step’: California IDs to be digitalized, available in Apple...
California is working to make state ID cards available for use in Apple and Google Wallets, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office. “We’re partnering with two iconic California companies — Apple and...
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Santa Clara County officials want to toughen eviction protections in...
Santa Clara County landlords are dodging a decades-old law that requires they pay to relocate evicted tenants. To combat that, county leaders could give unincorporated neighborhoods stronger eviction...
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Sudden cardiac arrest: Silicon Valley district screens high school athletes...
IT’S A SILENT killer that could happen to any high school student: sudden cardiac arrest. One school district wants to make sure it prevents another tragedy.The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School...
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Caltrans pauses excavation work on Hwy 1 slide in Monterey County as threat...
Continuing land movement at Regent’s Slide on State Highway 1 in Monterey County prompted Caltrans to temporarily halt excavation work, the state agency said.Crews noticed surface cracking at several...
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San Mateo County residents warned after recent online scam incidents target...
An older adult in El Granada was duped out of thousands of dollars in an online scam, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office said.The victim replied to a computer notice that his machine had been hacked...
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Best Bets: ‘Music and the Brain,’ Rockridge Rock-N-Stroll, ‘Mamma Mia!’...
Freebie of the week: Why do some types of music have the power to make us jiggle our booties while others provoke tears or send us into a deep reverie? The Lawrence Hall of Science has engaged...
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Day 2: How do you become a DNC delegate? Just ‘sign up and get people to vote...
IF YOU WANT to understand how Pleasanton resident Jeff Nibert became a Democratic Convention delegate, you have to go back to his early childhood fascination with the luge.A luge is a small sled that...
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Park district asks the public to steer clear of cows and their calves during...
The East Bay Regional Park District is asking residents to avoid young cows and their mothers through calving season, which will end in October, according to the district.Residents should not approach...
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Marin County staff responds to ‘too little, too late’ civil grand jury report...
While some Marin County communities have acted on their own to begin sea level adaptation projects, the county itself is still deciding what type of governance structure it needs to start thinking...
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Does milk do a body good? UC researchers seek to learn how it affects...
The University of California’s Nutrition Policy Institute is seeking toddlers who drink cow’s milk to participate in a 12-month study.“The purpose of this UC study is to see how the type of milk...
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DNA leads investigators to arrest Idaho man in 1973 Marin County sexual...
Investigators used DNA to track down and arrest a suspect this week in the 1973 sexual assault and killing of a woman at her home in Marin County.Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, was arrested in Idaho on...
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