Baraka Carter has been appointed as the new fire chief for the Redwood City Fire Department, which also serves San Carlos, City Manager Melissa Stevenson ...

Contra Costa County is looking for a new auditor-controller.  Robert Campbell announced his retirement this week after more than three decades working for ...

Scrambling to respond to the Trump administration’s late Monday night directive to pause a wide, but as-yet-unspecified, swath of federal spending ...

Allocations from California’s State Water Project continue to slowly trend upwards this winter, with water managers announcing a 5% increase in requested ...

Local News Matters brings community coverage to the SF Bay Area so that the people, places and topics that deserve more attention get it. Our nonprofit newsroom is supported by the generosity of ...

In hour two of a meeting that stretched to nearly five, Josh Salcman, barely two months on the Palo Alto Unified School Board, said aloud what other ...

Oakland Zoo has three new orphaned mountain lion cubs.  The zoo said Wednesday on social media the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) ...

AS SAN JOSE crunches the numbers in its upcoming budget, a larger than expected shortfall looms on the horizon, along with another round of department ...

This year’s Lunar New Year kicked off with a bang in San Francisco’s Chinatown on Wednesday as 10,000 firecrackers were set off on Kearny Street. Hundreds ...

Some of the best golfers in the world are in Monterey County this week for the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, a tournament in the second year of its new ...

It’s called the New Farm, but its roots go back to mid-1970s San Francisco, when nobody thought twice about a working farm also being ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly railed against California’s governor as “Newscum,” spread misinformation about the causes of the Los Angeles fires ...