A new state law bans private colleges from considering an applicant’s ties to family members who are alumni or donors.

In the San Gabriel Canyon, high winds reignited the smoldering Bridge fire, prompting the closure of San Gabriel Canyon Road, ...

Firefighting crews took advantage of calmer weather Sunday to increase containment of a small wildfire in Oakland, California ...

Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, we don’t have an abundance of baby pygmy hippos. But we do have a bunch of zoos and ...

The Keller Fire in the Oakland Hills began Friday and damaged two homes. The fire has burned about 15 acres and was at 50% ...

The dimensions appear similar to Oakland’s Coliseum, but temperatures in California’s Central Valley can get considerably warmer than in the Bay Area. ** Miller turned into one of the league’s best ...

People from all over Northern California come to A’s baseball games. It’s one of the things that would attract people to Oakland.” “To have one more loss at a time where maintaining economic and ...

After starting in Philadelphia in 1901, the A’s moved to Kansas City in 1955, then to Oakland in 1968, with California’s capital city of Sacramento and Las Vegas next in the peripatetic ...

Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland, California park. Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an ...