WALNUT CREEK — Patients at Planned Parenthood will soon have a quieter experience obtaining contraceptives, getting an abortion or seeking any other reproductive health care. That’s because bullhorns, megaphones, loudspeakers …
Two Bay Area healthcare giants rank among the top of a list of the country’s nonprofit hospitals whose 2021 tax breaks exceeded by tens of millions of dollars the amount …
RICHMOND — Days after Richmond residents protested the grand opening of pickleball courts at the privately-operated Craneway Pavilion, city officials say there’s little they can do to stop it because …
OAKLAND — Facing the public here for the first time, new police Chief Floyd Mitchell leaned away from the city’s tricky problems around crime and policing, instead focusing part of …
Pieces of the COVID virus can lurk in our blood and tissue for almost two years after the initial illness has vanished, a discovery that might offer clues to the …
With California’s 16th congressional district election already the most expensive House race in the state’s primary, money could once again prove to be key as voters look toward November to …
For decades, homeless people have camped along San Jose’s 140 miles of creeks and rivers. Now, at the direction of state regulators, city officials are devising an ambitious plan to …
San Jose may have just rescued one of its most ambitious urban development projects — a plan to build thousands of homes at the site of the northside flea market. …
Stanford University students protesting the war in Gaza agreed to end their overnight camp-in on Friday after 120 days of on-campus demonstration. The agreement comes as university officials said they …
Bay Area cities and counties could be on the hook for more than $200 million they expected the federal government to pay toward the cost of sheltering thousands of vulnerable …