Immigrant Goes From Troubled Home Life To Unlikely College Student
Zipping around on a golf cart on a beautiful campus tucked away in wine country, Carlos Lunas Contreras was quite literally at home.
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Zipping around on a golf cart on a beautiful campus tucked away in wine country, Carlos Lunas Contreras was quite literally at home.
Two South Bay high schools and local residents are at loggerheads over a proposal to install lights for night games and practices.
The University of California, Berkeley has suspended an architecture professor for three years without pay for sexually harassing a graduate student and abusing his power for personal gain.
When students go back to school in Alameda next week, there will be fewer dress code restrictions thanks to some students who fought for fashion justice, and won.
As a young student, David Colby was told by a social worker he would never experience this kind of success.
A Northern California school district is delaying the start of school because of smoke damage from a wildfire that is now the largest in state history.
A plan in San Francisco to let people who are not U.S. citizens vote in school board elections isn't getting off to a great start.
Camp Newman, a popular summer getaway for Jewish youth in the North Bay, was lost to wildfire last October. Then, thanks to a minor miracle, the camp is back up and running at a cool new location on the bay.
Physicist Burton Richter, a Stanford professor emeritus and winner of the Nobel Prize, died Wednesday in Palo Alto. He was 87.
Anyone who has spent any time in a classroom filled with 13-year-olds can tell you, it can be a challenge. But for this week's Students Rising Above Scholar Sabrina Villanueva Avalos, mentoring middle schoolers a dream job that she was made for.
Officials say two private colleges in the San Francisco Bay area will close because of declining enrollment.
University of California officials say they've admitted a record number of transfer students for the upcoming school year, mostly from community colleges.
The brother of John Travolta, Joey Travolta, has made his life's work introducing students living with intellectual and developmental disabilities to the filmmaking industry at summer camps nationwide, including in the Bay Area.
Tahunni Rhoades is eyeing her future and it looks pretty bright. The Oakland High School graduate is headed to University of California, Merced in the fall to study biology.
"Inflatable: Expanding Works of Art" features five massive pieces that all incorporate air and will be on display at the Exploratorium through Sept. 3.
