OAKLAND — Thirteen people, including one child, were displaced after a two-alarm fire affected four units in a multistory-building on the 2300 block of East 17th Street in East Oakland ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — American presidential elections are a moment when the nation holds up a mirror to look at itself. They are a reflection of values and dreams, of grievances and scores to be ...

Julia Prodis Sulek is a Bay Area News Group reporter specializing in breaking news and narrative storytelling at her hometown paper, the Mercury News, and the East Bay Times. She has covered ...

Lisa M. Krieger is a Bay Area News Group science writer for The Mercury News and East Bay Times, covering research, scientific policy and environmental news from Stanford University, the ...

Harriet Blair Rowan is a Bay Area News Group data reporter for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Rowan received her master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School ...

Joseph Dycus is a Bay Area News Group sports reporter who covers high school sports on and off the field/court/pitch for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Before moving to the Bay Area ...

Grace Hase covers Santa Clara County, Santa Clara and Cupertino for The Mercury News. She is a lifelong Bay Area resident and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with degrees in ...

Bay Area News Group reporter Ryan Macasero covers the San Francisco Peninsula for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. He previously worked as a multimedia reporter and the Visayas bureau chief ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with a sweeping rejection by American voters, Kamala Harris conceded the presidential election to Donald Trump on Wednesday and encouraged supporters to continue fighting ...

ANTIOCH — A nearly eight-hour standoff with a 61-year-old man, who was armed with a knife and suspected of domestic violence, ended late Friday with the man being taken into custody by members ...

Residential burglary: Between Oct. 2 and Oct. 25, someone entered a residence in the 19000 block of Harleigh Drive through an unlocked door and stole jewelry and purses for a total loss valued at ...

DETROIT (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday declined to say how she voted on a key ballot measure in her home state of California that would reverse criminal justice reforms approved ...