THE OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT this week voted to reverse course on a decision to potentially gut afterschool and summer programs that roiled the ...

THE MARIN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS unanimously approved a nearly $866 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year that includes adding firefighters to ...

A FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM to help prevent wildfires and restore forests in Mendocino County has been eliminated under proposed cuts by President Donald Trump’s ...

The East Bay Regional Park District will spend millions over the next three years cutting down and removing dead and dying trees in order to reduce the ...

CALIFORNIA’S LOCAL NEWSROOMS got attention at the state Capitol this week, when the Senate Budget Committee, chaired by Sen. John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, ...

Alameda County has launched a three-year, $5.8 million Diaper Bank program to provide monthly access to diapers and baby wipes for families with young ...

The former executive director of a Stockton-based junior golf nonprofit has been charged with six counts of embezzlement and forgery for allegedly ...

BAY AREA RESIDENTS who emailed their officials in the past few years may be surprised to learn their correspondence could train a company’s AI for future ...

THE STOCKTON CITY COUNCIL has unanimously approved a resolution directing city staff to display the Pride flag annually during the first week of June. The ...

A WAVE OF LAWSUITS, large and small, have been waged against Vistra Corporation, PG&E and many of their associated companies in the months following ...

With the theme “Changing the Narrative,” the 11th Bay Area Book Festival comes to downtown Berkeley on May 31 and June 1, ...

A FLURRY OF class action lawsuits against a South Bay digital tech management company landed in federal court this week after a data breach allegedly ...