TEN-YEAR-OLD Elijah Soto-Sims is rocking back and forth on a dining chair, fidgeting, giggling with his brother, eight-year-old Malik Soto-Sims. “Malik, ...

C&H Sugar Company Inc. has agreed to a $500,000 settlement involving 2022 odor violations at one of its facilities in the unincorporated Contra Costa ...

San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission abused millions of dollars in public funds between 2020 and 2024, according to an audit by the city controller’s ...

THE MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION has awarded Bay City News Foundation a $120,000 grant to enhance local coverage, adding a dedicated reporter whose work ...

SANTA CLARA COUNTY’S RESISTANCE to federal immigration crackdowns is about to get more organized. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to ...

THE PARENTS OF A POLICE CADET who died last month after participating in a training exercise for the San Francisco Police Department Academy have filed a ...

A popular hiking trail damaged during a major winter storm is back open again after being closed for over two years. California State Parks ...

NEARLY THREE-QUARTERS of California public high school seniors applied for federal financial aid this year, soaring past last year’s figures by 11% and ...

WHAT STARTED AS A RESEARCH project for one San Jose high school student has recently transformed into a nonprofit organization with hundreds of members ...

DESPITE THE EFFORTS of President Donald Trump’s administration to erase the concept of human-caused global warming by deleting climate-related federal ...

Education Matters Issues affecting schools in the greater Bay Area — and the students, teachers, administrators and parents involved with education — ...

Lawmakers introduced a bill last week to extend a program that exempts wildfire survivors from paying taxes on certain disaster aid used to fund recovery ...