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A disabled Black truck driver who said he was subjected to years of racial slurs, mockery and a hostile work environment at the cement company Cemex’s East Bay plants — and then fired after he repeatedly raised his concerns — is having his complaint heard in federal court in San Francisco.
A San Francisco County Superior Court judge, Harry Dorfman, ordered the city’s public defender to pay $26,000 in fines on Tuesday after ruling that his repeated refusals to accept new criminal cases each constituted a separate act of contempt
The San José City Council voted Tuesday to explore converting the city’s largest interim housing community into permanent housing — just days after officials moved to terminate the city’s contract with the site’s operators, following a staff member’s arrest on drug charges.
The San José City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to tighten restrictions on its network of automated license plate reader cameras — the latest Bay Area municipality to take a closer look at the software’s risks and rewards.
A Campbell townhome complex that broke ground on Friday tests a 2023 state law designed to fast-track small-scale homeownership opportunities for middle-income families.
California and 23 other states sued President Donald Trump on Thursday over his latest tariffs, arguing the administration is using an obscure law to bypass the Supreme Court and create new costs for families.
Gov. Gavin Newsom authorized a $590 million emergency bridge loan on Thursday to prevent Bay Area transit agencies from shuttering stations and slashing service.
Budget shortfalls could force the South Bay’s top prosecutor to abandon misdemeanor prosecutions, domestic violence cases and youth programs — leading to “tragic” consequences for public safety, according to Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen.
A collection of my reporting on the first San Francisco teachers strike in nearly 50 years, including radio features, national spots, and field reporting.
For San José, the coming days are about more than just the big game; they’re a high-stakes test of downtown’s post-pandemic recovery — which outpaced San Francisco and Oakland — and its ability to host a national event.
San Francisco police arrested two teenagers in connection with a triple shooting that left a 15-year-old girl dead and two other teens wounded near a playground in the Western Addition.
In a major breakthrough this week, researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park used X-ray beams to uncover a long-lost map of the universe.
Ninety-seven years after the birth of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., communities in the Bay Area will celebrate the legendary civil rights activist’s legacy by making their voices heard, amid the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Highway 1 through Big Sur fully opened Wednesday for the first time in three years, ending its longest sustained closure after crews cleared a troublesome slide area months ahead of schedule.
The $1.8 million shared home is the second of its kind in San Mateo County.
The Trevor Project, a nonprofit best known for its suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, announced Monday it has received a $45 million gift from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott — the largest one-time donation in the organization’s 27-year history.
The National Weather Service has issued its first-ever “extreme cold warning” for the eastern Santa Clara Hills and a cold weather advisory for much of the Bay Area Thursday night and Friday morning.
A wastewater spill that spurred warnings to stay out of the Russian River this week after a storm drenched Sonoma County was stopped Thursday morning, officials said.
The Trump administration sued the Bay Area cities of Morgan Hill and Petaluma on Monday to block their bans on natural gas infrastructure in new buildings.
A massive three-alarm fire all but destroyed a San José Buddhist temple on Monday morning, just 20 months after another blaze heavily damaged it.
A Bay Area lawmaker slammed a Trump administration plan to conduct research on the Hepatitis B vaccine on infants in Guinea-Bissau, where nearly one in five adults lives with the virus.
In commemoration of International Migrants Day, dozens of faith leaders, activists and residents marched through San José on Thursday to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies and pressure the city to bolster investments in immigration legal services.
The Oakland City Council voted Tuesday to expand the city’s network of automated license plate reader cameras, overriding strong objections from privacy advocates who warned the move could expose residents to federal surveillance.
About every 15 hours, someone is rushed to San Francisco General Hospital with severe injuries from a traffic crash — a rate that medical experts describe as a public health crisis.
Teachers in the West Contra Costa Unified School District entered their third day of a strike on Monday, with some maintenance and service workers returning to work.
For decades, sports medicine has relied on data collected almost exclusively from men — an inequity that experts say underserves female athletes, and creates a barrier to preventing career-ending injuries.
A decade of economic progress in the Bay Area has been erased in less than a year, according to a new report released Wednesday by Tipping Point Community, a San Francisco-based anti-poverty nonprofit.
Protestors gathered outside San Francisco’s George Moscone Center on Tuesday at Microsoft’s largest annual conference to demand that the tech giant cut all remaining ties with the Israeli military.
Sutter Health announced plans on Monday for a new flagship medical center in Santa Clara, part of a multibillion-dollar investment to expand health care access in Silicon Valley.
Santa Clara County officials announced Wednesday a sweeping civil enforcement action against a Milpitas-based home care business, alleging its owners perpetrated a complex scheme to exploit immigrant caregivers.
San José lawmakers are aiming to crack down on the proliferation of smoke shops and the sale of nitrous oxide canisters, or “whip-its.”
The NFL and the Bay Area Host Committee, or BAHC, announced the official lineup of events for Super Bowl LX on Monday, detailing a weeklong celebration centered in both San Francisco and San José, with partnerships extending into the East Bay.
San Francisco leaders on Tuesday announced legislation that would bolster the city’s immigrant legal defense funds and rapid response networks by $3.5 million.
California has raised the stakes for businesses that steal wages and tripled the price of wage theft.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday afternoon to approve a $3.57 million emergency allocation to dramatically scale up legal services, community outreach and rapid response networks for the county’s immigrant and refugee residents.
San José is rolling out four red-light cameras at some of its most dangerous intersections, part of a yearlong traffic safety pilot program.
A mother and daughter who said they were fired from a fast food restaurant in San José for protesting working conditions rallied Wednesday alongside community members, officials and union representatives to demand their jobs back.
The neighborhood with the highest number of kids in the city has no permanent ice cream shop. A recent ice cream social aimed to change the narrative and provide a safe space for the community.
A new bill aims to fix the city’s “housing death spiral” and make it easier to build new homes, inspired by a long-vacant car wash site.
TA judge found San Francisco’s public defender in contempt Tuesday in a dispute over limited staffing and caseloads.