San Mateo County has named Amy Davidson head of its Center on Homelessness, which coordinates homeless services throughout the county.

After thousands of homes were destroyed by the Los Angeles fires in January, local jurisdictions are on high alert for ...

With a deadline looming and air safety top of mind to many Americans after a spate of recent airplane crashes, San Mateo County politicians are calling on the Federal Aviation Administration to ...

The California Highway Patrol issued a Silver Alert early Friday morning for a missing 75-year-old woman last seen in East Palo Alto on Thursday afternoon.

Adam Hardesty looks through floor plans at his home in Carlsbad on Feb. 19, 2025. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, In a dispute over whether he can convert his three-story condominium’s garage into its own ...

As wildfires swept through Los Angeles County last month, the New York Times published a commentary by former insurance commissioner Dave Jones, who suggested that oil companies should pay for the ...

Menlo Park firefighters were called to a house on O’Keefe Street at 4:34 p.m. on Feb. 20. When they arrived, smoke and flames ...

West Bay Opera spins some vocal confections with Bellini's sleep-walking melodrama "La sonnambula." The opera is rarely staged, so this production offers quite an opportunity to catch it.

This week: concerts with Latin folk musician Diana Gameros and Martha High's Funky Divas; a tribute to the music of Willie Nelson will raise funds for LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

In summary California’s new Low Carbon Fuel Standard has been stalled because it lacks ”clarity.” The new standard, which offers incentives for cleaner fuels, is highly controversial because it would ...

At Stanford’s Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ’Ootchamin ’Ooyakma, a group of researchers — self described “fire followers” — convened on Feb. 18 to explore how prescribed burns, indigenous knowledge ...

Two students walk to class at Los Padres Elementary School in Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. Photo by Larry Valenzuela,/CatchLight Local As the setting for John Steinbeck’s 1950s classic “East of Eden,” ...