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Aid organizations are scrambling to help in the aftermath of last week's earthquake in Nepal, but one Bay Area teenager named Everest has an idea to keep the help coming even long after the dust settles.
Three houses are burning in San Francisco's Excelsior neighborhood Tuesday evening, a fire spokeswoman said.
A Contra Costa County fire protection district is preparing to close two stations and make service cuts following the failure of a measure that would have raised more than $4 million a year for the next five years, officials said Tuesday.
40 years after the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War, the Bay Area's Vietnamese community of today looks nothing like the first wave of refugees who first arrived here.
Thousands of gallons of water are going down the drain in Palo Alto, and the city has no way to stop it.
Governor Jerry Brown met with most of California's big city mayors Tuesday to discuss the drought in the State Capitol and to announce a plan to slap water wasters with much stiffer fines.
Federal prosecutors are considering whether to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate Barry Bonds' obstruction of justice conviction.
Police arrested a burglar Monday morning after she accidentally dropped her driver's license while struggling with the homeowner to get away.
Khloe Kardashian says she's damned if she does, and damned if she doesn't, referring strong reactions to a post she put up on Instagram that said 'Pray for Baltimore.'
Astronomers at the Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton have discovered three planets described as "supersized Earths" orbiting a star 54 light years away.
Maybe it's the abundance of amazing Sunday restaurant brunches, or the fact that people just can't find a parking spot, but the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose region is the least church going population in America, and also the most likely to have been to church and then decided not to go back.
Two men have been arrested following a carjacking robbery in Millbrae in which the victim was run over by his own car.
For years now San Jose police officers have had to rely on an outdated laptop computer system in their patrol cars, but they won't have to put up with them much longer, thanks to a $1.6 million grant that the department received from the state.
San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener is hoping to get approval to create a task force to help plan local policies if cannabis is legalized in the 2016 California election.
Get out your luggage. Get that passport in order. The dream vacation you never took to an exotic faraway destination could be a reality this year thanks to the strong U.S. dollar.
