San Mateo County ranks second to last in the state for food stamp use, losing an estimated $84.8 million in federal benefits, but officials prefer focusing on its fourth-place for increased particip...

An internal investigation about allegations a Redwood City special education teacher abused preschool students resulted in eight additional employees being placed on administrative leave Thursday. ...

A San Francisco woman is accused of having a suspected drug lab in her apartment that exploded and injured her and a 12-year-old boy. Police arrested 33-year-old Angelic Cisneros on Wednesday on s...

A South San Francisco man accused of torching cars and a trash bin at his apartment complex before offering to help firefighters extinguish the blazes is facing 16 months in prison after pleading no...

The San Mateo County Health System launched a new public website Thursday that it says is easier to navigate and search. The newly designed site, www.smchealth.org, also lets users view current he...

WASHINGTON — A landmark $25 billion settlement with the nation’s top mortgage lenders was hailed by government officials Thursday as long-overdue relief for victims of foreclosure abuses...

SACRAMENTO — It looks like a good year to be a Democrat in California: The party swept every statewide office in 2010, has continued to widen its voter registration edge over Republicans and h...

With sporty styling and standard high-tech features, the Hyundai Veloster — the automaker’s fourth new car that earns a fuel mileage rating of 40 miles per gallon on the highway — ...

HAYDN AND MOZART IN SAN FRANCISCO. Composers often write some of their finest works toward the end of their careers and the Feb. 23 to 25 program of the San Francisco Symphony highlights two such ex...

The city of Burlingame has a downtown that should be replicated elsewhere. It has a high school and large park adjacent to a train station with a long pedestrian-oriented shopping street leading direc...

It is becoming increasingly clear that it would be a grave mistake to spend another dime right now on California’s high-speed rail fantasy. The latest blow to the project comes from state Audi...

Cracking noises followed as the jaws of life were clamped onto the side of a Nissan Sentra parked at South San Francisco Fired Station 61 Thursday afternoon. With pieces of glass all around and we...

Dwindling opportunities to expose youth to music are increasing demand for programs offered through Burlingame-based Music at Kohl Mansion. Nearly 30 years after it started, Music at Kohl Mansion h...

With his team leading rival Terra Nova 35-29 heading into the final match, the task for Half Moon Bay’s 170-pound wrestler Joe Lowman was simple: don’t get pinned. A pin is worth six poin...

In the annual rivalry game between Serra and Saint Ignatius, it was the smallest, fastest Wildcat that owned The Jungle. The Padres had no answer for S.I. guard Trevor Dunbar Thursday night, especia...

NEW YORK — The stock market finally got a deal in Greece, but it didn’t produce much of a rally. U.S. stocks rose Thursday morning after Greece announced an agreement to cut costs and k...

WASHINGTON — FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reveal a man driven by power and alienating some of the people who worked with him. In the FBI docum...

The crazy eyes and idiosyncratic drawl of Woody Harrelson are enough to carry the dirty cop study “Rampart,” but even such powers as those can’t make engaging this weary L.A. noir....

At the start of p.g. sturges’ follow-up to last year’s “Shortcut Man,” Dick Henry — the guy people call to fix things when legal recourse is either exhausted or out of ...