More than 20 Bay Area and NorCal restaurants, chefs, bakers and wine/cocktail specialists have been named semifinalists in the 2025 James Beard Awards competition. “It is an honor to recognize your distinctive talents that enrich America’s culinary landscape,” the awards committee said to the semifinalists in Wednesday’s announcement.

At Friday’s news conference in San Francisco, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Robbins described how the charges lay out “a corrupt scheme in which the defendants used bribes, wire fraud, mail fraud and other illegal practices to manipulate and corruptly influence the levers of local government.”

President Donald Trump once again took aim at liberal sanctuary policies on Tuesday, prompting California officials to dismiss his efforts as a “scare tactic” designed to pressure them into helping him carry out mass deportations.

The Milken Institute’s annual report gauges the best cities based on metrics including job and wage growth, affordability and other economic factors.

In his inaugural address, President Trump took aim at California's mandate banning gas-powered vehicles. But even before he was sworn into office, the state accepted the new reality and abandoned a similar plan to ban diesel trucks.

Protesters are voicing their opposition to incoming President-election Donald Trump, but in smaller numbers than his first term

Investor hands historic Leamington Hotel property to CIT Bank after failing to pay off loan of more than $36 million.

Daniel Lurie on Jim Cramer, Alameda County supervisors agree to final talks over sale of Oakland Coliseum, S.F.'s dreary economic report and the latest in fundings and bankruptcies in the Bay Area.

“The tech share of employment in California has fallen quite rapidly ... And yet the median cost of a single-family home in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward area was an eye-popping $1.3 million ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO ... and the U.S. Postal Service also raided three other locations in Oakland: the offices of California Waste Solutions on the Embarcadero, the View Crest Court home of ...

The Year of the Snake is upon us as communities across the Bay Area celebrate Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year and Tet. Here’s just a sampling of ways to join in the celebrations.

The Tehachapi Loop in California's Central Valley is a 3,799-foot-long rail spiral that first allowed passenger trains to journey from the Bay Area to LA.