Unhappy with the potential for a raised high-speed rail system to divide its city, Burlingame officials will discuss $425,000 worth of ideas to address the possible impact including researching altern...

Jackie Harris grew up like most little girls watching local parades. And at the Redwood City parade, there was always a Miss Redwood City. Harris recalled seeing the woman representing her hometown ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Traffic along the teeming streets of Chinatown came to a standstill: death was parading by, heralded by the clear, sharp notes of a brass band. Women looked up from their grocery...

It might have started in Eden or in a pre-historic cave. For as long as people have been people, they’ve yearned to go somewhere else, to see what’s beyond the garden-wall, to climb a moun...

Score A window of a car was smashed and a GPS, Dell computer, business files, backpack and medication were taken on the 300 block of  Adrian Road in Millbrae before 2:49 p.m. Wednesday, March 10...

SANTA CLARA  — California Republicans are leaving their weekend gathering enthusiastic about their prospects for retaining the governor’s seat and replacing their most reviled target,...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  — Three people with ties to the American consulate were killed in a drug-plagued Mexican city, including a U.S. couple shot to death within sight of the border with t...

In 1493, Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere. In 1767, the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, S.C. ...

Soon after reconnecting with a friend on Facebook, our messages turned to pets, specifically, her cat and his issues. Question #1: Our cat is 25 pounds. Is that too much weight for him, and if so, how...

When Clinton Nelson walked into B Street Boxing for the first time, his experience as a pugilist was limited to the occasional bout with the punching bag in his garage. A little more than a year later...

LAWRENCE, Kan.  — Look who’s lurking deep in the Midwest bracket where Kansas proudly sits as overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament. It’s none other than Tennessee and Okla...

FREMONT — After a splendid Saturday in which the College of San Mateo softball team scored 20 runs and racked up 26 hits in a pair of victories, the Bulldogs fell flat on Sunday in the March Mad...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the So...

PHOENIX — The five states hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis have been given only weeks to plan how to spend $1.5 billion in federal funding announced by the Obama administration last month. ...