Could more than 100 residential units boost business for Burlingame’s downtown? Last year the, City Council asked for development proposals using city-owned parking lots. The hope was to boo...

A suspected methamphetamine dealer arrested after county law enforcement swarmed a suspected San Carlos drug house so squalid a building inspector deemed it uninhabitable will stand trial in May. ...

A South San Francisco teen whose multi-car crash while intoxicated killed his 17-year-old passenger nearly a year ago to the day was sentenced Friday to two years in prison on vehicular manslaughter...

U.S. Coast Guard crews Friday morning found a vessel possibly associated with a recreational boater who did not return after leaving from Pillar Point Harbor on Wednesday but have yet to find the mi...

A 34-year-old transient accused of grabbing a woman’s ponytail and stealing a child’s potato chips outside a Redwood City supermarket is mentally unfit for trial, concluded two of three ...

WASHINGTON — In a long-awaited surge of hiring, companies added 243,000 jobs in January — across the economy, up and down the pay scale and far more than just about anyone expected. Unem...

WASHINGTON — In an effort to cut the unemployment rate among veterans, President Barack Obama is calling for a new conservation program that would put veterans to work rebuilding trails, roads...

Alabama is the only state that has all of the natural resources needed to make iron and steel. *** The first settlement in Alaska was established by Russian whalers and fur traders in 1784. Alaska ...

FOUR LEGGED FUN IN INDIO. Looking for a fast winter sport that doesn’t require snow? Then it’s mallets up for Winter Polo in Indio, in the Coachella Valley of Southern California’s...

It’s been noted, in the past 30 years, I haven’t been wrong in my predictions of who would win presidential elections. So how do I do it? I first put into the equation that somewhere betw...

Some House Republicans say the Obama administration cut General Motors self-serving slack on a safety hazard. Officials at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration deny it. But even if the...

Chatter about the newest clothes to come in filled the room as women discussed their likes, the colors and who could really wear certain pieces well. The jovial conversation is what a shopper in a...

College of San Mateo manager Doug Williams will be the first to tell you that his baseball team’s first bite at competition in the 2012 season left his those in white and blue with a bitter tast...

A full effort in basketball consists of 32 minutes and during the 2011-2012 season, 32 minutes is what Marvin Lui has asked of the Burlingame girls’ basketball team. Friday night against Menlo...

INDIANAPOLIS — Sorry, Los Angeles. The only NFL expansion happening anytime soon is to next season’s schedule of Thursday night games. During his annual Super Bowl news conference, Commis...

WASHINGTON — The stronger the economy gets, the more the presidential race comes down to what voters believe: Are things actually getting better? Or is it all still a mess? If the economy&rsqu...

Assemblyman Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, shows off a Valentine’s Day card with Florence Berg Friday at the Magnolia Center in South San Francisco. The seniors at the center were making the cards f...

At a school where 12-year-olds carry iPads and students use Skype to speak Spanish with people across the world, grades, more often than not, remain in ink and paper. Transparency in scores, compl...