High-speed rail is one of President Obama’s priorities, but Northern California debates continue. According to Stanford earth science students, high-speed trains are only eco-friendly if full.

About 55,000 registered runners and tens of thousands of others looking for a party, took to San Francisco’s streets Sunday for the 100th running of Bay to Breakers. View the photo gallery.

The highly anticipated Railroad Revival Tour, which features folk rock bands Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show, made its first stop Thursday night at Oakland’s Middle Shoreline Harbor Park.

With the rising popularity of home theaters and online movie viewing, boutique movie theaters see their attendance drop. Stanford Theatre and the Aquarius are still strongholds in Palo Alto.

In the second installment in the Peninsula Press StayCations series, we visit Ano Nuevo State Park, the winter home for a colony of over 2,000 northern elephant seals.