The California Public Utilities Commission fined PG&E more than $16 million Friday for failing to conduct gas pipeline leak surveys on a stretch of pipeline in Contra Costa County. PG&E sa...

A 16-year-old gangmember accused of stabbing a man mistaken for a rival gangmember in San Mateo pleaded no contest Friday to assault with a deadly weapon in exchange for time served. Jonathan Medi...

SAN FRANCISCO — A painting contractor who had a number of contracts to work on San Francisco city and school projects is facing charges that she cheated her employees out of more than $600,000 i...

SAN JOSE  — Police at San Jose State University have arrested a student suspected of entering dormitory rooms and groping female students. University spokeswoman Pat Lopes Harris said that...

Officials with Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City say the names and Social Security numbers of nearly 400 hospital employees were inadvertently posted to a public website. The breach was reported on Th...

SAN FRANCISCO — Seeking to influence other states and Washington, California air regulators passed sweeping auto emission standards Friday that include a mandate to have 1.4 million electric a...

WASHINGTON — Federal and state law enforcement officials announced Friday they have launched a fraud-fighting unit, starting with 55 prosecutors and investigators, to root out wrongdoing in th...

In the years that followed 9/11, there was much debate about what to do with the area at Ground Zero — how to rectify the loss and create a new land-use plan for the site, while simultaneously p...

In 1547, England’s King Henry VIII died; he was succeeded by his 9-year-old son, Edward VI. In 1813, the novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen was first published in London, an...

Several of my readers have expressed concern and sympathy when negative letters about me appear in this newspaper. Please don’t be! I take none of them seriously. I ignore those who do not disc...

U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier’s statements in the Jan. 6, 2012 article in the San Mateo Daily Journal, “Speier to focus on military spending,” falsely describes Alaska Native Corporation...

Only just a few weeks new, Five Guys Burgers and Fries is already a hit with visitors to Burlingame’s downtown retail district. The first Peninsula location for the East Coast franchise, Fiv...

Sometimes, I’m in wonderment at what true stuff of life becomes the subject or plot for successful plays. Artistic director and co-founder of TheatreWorks Robert Kelley never fails to bring to...

What fluke? Four weeks ago, the College of San Mateo women’s basketball team traveled to the City College of San Francisco and picked up a monumental win to start 2011 Coast Conference play. ...

In the gauntlet that was a week full of soccer for the Menlo-Atherton boys’ team, the Bears saved their best performance for last. M-A will be the first to admit its 1-0 win over San Mateo Fri...

NEW YORK — The stock market closed mostly lower Friday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to its first losing week of 2012, after the government reported that economic growth was slower...

LOS ANGELES — When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks of the largest public companies in the...

Gerardo Naranjo may have made the least-glamorous movie ever about a pageant queen with “Miss Bala.” And that’s what makes it so beautiful. With long, fluid takes that create a me...

On Saturday, Jan. 28, I will be at my school, Aragon High School, helping run the first Aragon-Mills Model United Nations Conference. After a long eight months of planning, my colleagues and I will ...