Mountain View residents push for historically elusive rent control
Advocates hope this latest initiative will be successful, but they face well-organized and well-funded opposition.... Read more.
Mountain View residents turn to RVs in housing crisis
Faced with little relief from rising rents in the Bay Area, Mountain View residents are turning to RVs and trailers for housing.... Read more.
Waste Management, Recology use different strategies to raise rates
Two of the Bay Area’s largest solid waste management companies employ different strategies to arrive at similar results: nearly doubling residential curbside waste... Read more.
In California, varied election filing practices reveal a system struggling to catch up
More than half of California’s counties don’t provide online access to campaign finance records, and they say they aren’t likely to change any time soon.... Read more.
East Palo Alto looks to wells for economic growth
Faced with a severe shortage, the city is beginning construction on two wells that it hopes will together provide about half of East Palo Alto’s projected water... Read more.
Sportswriter Christine Brennan — A life in action
A profile of Christine Brennan, one of the first nationally recognized female sports reporters, who broke barriers and established a place for women in a historically... Read more.
Past and present meet in San Bruno Junior Giants baseball league
In the close-knit community of San Bruno, midway down the Peninsula, Bob Greenberg Field is more than just a place to play baseball.... Read more.
Torn from their homeland, Bay Area Assyrians yearn for persecution to end
Bay Area Assyrians pray for an end to religious persecution in their ancestral homeland of northern Iraq, where the Islamic State has killed many of their brothers... Read more.
East Palo Alto parents seek school alternatives after poor test results
East Palo Alto parents plan to petition the county to open a new charter school after recent testing showed many students in the city’s Ravenswood School District... Read more.
In East Palo Alto, students’ goals take wing
For East Palo Alto students, high school graduation rates have historically hovered around 50 percent. But a small program launched in June is making a difference... Read more.
After Paris attack, mourners construct memorial outside French Consulate in San Francisco
Mourners have constructed an impromptu memorial outside of the French Consulate on Kearny Street in San Francisco, following the Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris.... Read more.
In East Palo Alto, crime drops in nearly every category
Crime in nearly every category decreased in East Palo Alto in 2014, largely due to recent police crackdowns on gang activity.... Read more.