The Novato Police Department has been awarded a $119,000 state grant for traffic safety enforcement, according to officials. The grant from the California ...

Two animal welfare organizations have filed a federal lawsuit to stop the hunting of a half-million barred owls across several states, including in ...

The 50-foot Community Giving Tree is a centerpiece of San Jose's three-pronged downtown holiday celebration. (Christmas in the Park via Bay City News) ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced three judicial appointees and the nomination of a fourth affecting Alameda and Santa Clara counties. Charles A. Smiley, an ...

Sonoma County supervisors have approved the purchase of seven all-electric, locally made transit buses at a net cost of $1.2 million. The buses will ...

San Francisco has opened its Interfaith Winter Shelter for the season. Now in its 36th year, the program officially operates through March 30 and ...

Last year, American Conservatory Theater Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon was overseeing the final production of predecessor ...

The commercial Dungeness crab fishing season in Northern and Central California has been delayed for a second time, until at least mid-December, by the ...

An extended period of rain that has seen some parts of the Bay Area receive nearly two dozen inches of precipitation in the last week is expected to end ...

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AFTER FLOOD WATERS from heavy rainstorms deluged two small farmworker towns in early 2023, California set aside $20 million each for the communities to ...