On Oct. 17, the fifth-grade teachers at North Star Academy in Redwood City sent an email to parents. “Students should not be ...

Alondra, 45, poses for a photo inside a community organization that provides legal help, healthcare and rental assistance to their majority-Hispanic community. ( Arundathi Nair/Peninsula Press) For 14 ...

Bay Area counties and non-profit organizations are preparing for the 2020 Census by canvassing neighborhoods to make address lists more complete and recruiting “trusted messengers” like priests and ...

San Mateo was one of the locations on the San Francisco Peninsula where the first Japanese immigrants, hoping for better work opportunities, settled around the turn of the 20th century.

CUPERTINO – Santa Clara County has launched a pilot program to provide curb-to-curb transportation for seniors in five West Valley cities as an alternative to the costlier ride-sharing services and ...

Every year from December through April, approximately 35,000 people visit Año Nuevo State Park to see 10,000 elephant seals breed and give birth before returning to the sea.

PALO ALTO – Palo Alto is exploring ways to redesign four of its Caltrain railroad crossings that have become traffic bottlenecks and scenes of frequent accidents.