Health experts have taken notice and spoken out about the physical harm that skin care products, which are marketed to young girls, can cause.

After years of drought, the rainy winter has been a welcome change. But it brought its own set of problems, including damage to parks throughout San Mateo County.

An elementary school student at North Star Academy in Redwood City, California watches students play basketball on the blacktop at the end of the school day. (Hannah Woodworth/Peninsula Press) On Oct.

Eviction notices in San Francisco have jumped 60 percent since 2011 — especially in the Mission, Sunset, South of Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods. Santa Clara County is one of just 17 counties in ...

Collegiate hockey referees must finance their own equipment and provide their own transportation. They can spend more than two hours driving to a distant ice rink on a Friday night.

The Trump administration may soon expand the criteria used to determine whether immigrants seeking permanent residency status are at risk of becoming a “burden to American taxpayers.” News of the ...

Tiny houses are gaining popularity as a way to own a home in the Bay Area’s exorbitant housing market, but there are no California laws defining and regulating them, a situation which has left ...

Dignitá is a San Francisco coffee shop that serves as a job skills training ground for young women survivors emerging from what is often years of trafficking and abuse.

A pipeline stretching across the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan has been thrust back into the spotlight after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered a shutdown of the line that the oil company refused, ...

In Santa Clara County, the District Attorney’s Office decided that the new law should apply retroactively to cases that are currently being direct filed.

SAN FRANCISCO — Last week, San Francisco Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer introduced a plan that aims to permanently shut down County Jail #4 — a facility that advocates and politicians say is in poor ...

Shares of this manufacturer of robot-assisted surgical systems dropped Tuesday following the company’s Thursday report of lower profits for the fourth quarter of 2014.