The death this week of Claude, the beloved albino alligator at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, was due to liver cancer, officials ...

FOR CRISIS NURSERIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, the focus is simple: to be there for families in need with free (or low-cost), ...

BRANDON HERNANDEZ WAS MAKING REPAIRS behind his north Stockton home when bullets punctured his garage — and one sailed clear through the house, from front ...

CALIFORNIA IS FIGHTING BACK after President Donald Trump’s administration instigated homeless housing cuts that local service providers said would be ...

AN ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST who entered a poultry processing plant in Sonoma County and took four chickens has been given a 90-day jail sentence, the county ...

Painter Emily Keyishian keeps busy working on large commission in the garage of her Piedmont home. She’s also an actor ...

THE RECENT PASSAGE of a countywide sales tax measure is expected to soften federal funding cuts to Silicon Valley’s largest ...

MY LIFE, AS I KNOW IT, IS OVER. To be clear, I have always considered my life fun, flirty, fast-paced, filled with ...

A man was arrested recently along the Sonoma Coast for allegedly possessing poached red abalone he intended to sell, the California Department of Fish and ...

Bay Area air quality regulators announced this week that Chevron was hit with a $900,000 fine for air pollution monitoring ...

Former Alameda County district attorney Pamela Price wants her old job back. Price, who lost the job via a recall election in November 2024, ...

Bay City Beat is hosted by longtime journalist Leslie Katz and showcases a unique listing of weekend arts and cultural events ...