Jim Oswald is a marketing and communications executive at Joybound People & Pets in Walnut Creek. He lives in San Francisco.

San Francisco and Santa Clara joined six other counties in suing the Trump administration over these new conditions. Earlier ...

A dozen more protesters have joined the Stanford hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians at risk of starving in Gaza.

Increased enrollment in transitional kindergarten, which will be available to all 4-year-olds this year, helped slow the ...

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The Trump administration wants blue cities and counties to renounce DEI and immigration policies or lose crucial homelessness ...

The Solano County city’s leaders voted to form task forces to address the fallout from the potential Valero refinery closure.

Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, May 20, 2025… California legislators are considering a bill that would allow ...

The former congresswoman faces no shortage of challenges as Oakland’s mayor, including a budget crisis, stubbornly high rates ...

Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, May 19, 2025… Federal authorities are seeking help to piece together the ...

President Trump’s four-day visit to the Middle East featured splashy business deals, very little talk about human rights abuses and plenty of ethical questions – like ones raised by the gift of a ...

Local officials ruled the death of Darryl Mefferd an accident. But new evidence shows that's likely not the case.