Anne Oliva was selected Tuesday evening to serve on the Millbrae City Council filling the vacancy created by the unexpected death of Nadia Holober last month.After a nearly three-hour process, the co...

With an increase in graffiti on public property and escalating costs to remove it, San Mateo has moved toward outsourcing the job. City staff had a company in mind, Hayward-based Graffiti Protective ...

An Atherton real estate investor pleaded guilty to mail fraud and bid rigging at public auctions of foreclosed properties outside the San Mateo County courthouse in Redwood City, according to the Depa...

San Mateo is suing a company for not replacing defective equipment it supplied for wastewater treatment plant improvements and its unwillingness to comply with warranty obligations, according to a com...

As part of its first two-year budget cycle, county officials yesterday adopted a resolution keeping the funds in place until final approval this fall. The Board of Supervisors move at Tuesday’...

SACRAMENTO — California is a national leader in reducing the number of juvenile offenders incarcerated in state and county lockups, according to a study advocacy groups released Tuesday. Driven by...

WASHINGTON — The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats cha...

The ice cream cone was invented at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair by accident. An ice cream vendor ran out of cups so he asked a waffle vendor to help by rolling up waffles to hold the ice cream.***...

NEW YORK — Here's the latest goal for food makers: Perfect the art of imperfection. When stretching out the dough for its premium "Artisan Pizzas," Domino's workers are instructed not to worry abou...

"Agribusiness has everything to do with market control and nothing to do with producing safe and healthy foods (and less than nothing to do with feeding the world)." — Ken Midkiff, "The Meat We Eat....

Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic philosopher once mused: "There is nothing permanent except change." In these few words lay great truths. All aspects of life change and we must accept this change as part of...

  With intermittent summer days on the coast, the weather isn’t always conducive for fishermen in Half Moon Bay’s Princeton Harbor. But when the skies clear and provide spurts of c...

MIAMI — LeBron James led a title-saving charge, and now his crown will be on the line one more time in Game 7. James powered Miami to a frantic fourth-quarter rally and overtime escape as the Heat ...

The rags-to-riches story of the 2011 Cal baseball team just keeps getting better. Today marks the second anniversary of the day the storied Cinderella run of the Golden Bears culminated in a trip to ...

NEW YORK — It's all about the Fed. Still. U.S. stocks moved higher Tuesday, helped by news of a pickup in home building and low inflation. But the Federal Reserve loomed large, with investors tryi...

SACRAMENTO — Aetna Inc. will stop selling individual health insurance policies in California next month, just weeks after opting out of the exchange that is being established as part of the nationa...

It's hard to digest all of Kanye West on his new album. "Yeezus" is the rapper's darkest, eeriest and most erratic album of his six solo releases. He is in militant form on the 10-track set, rapping ...

LOS ANGELES — A chef who worked for Michael Jackson has described the home lives of the children during the final months of the singer's life, including what she said was his daughter's last birthda...