To the cheers of distant onlookers, a yellow excavator sliced through a dirt levee to open a long-captive 19th century industrial salt pond to the wild San Francisco Bay on …
Does the wilderness feel less wild when it must be scheduled? Summer visitors driving to Yosemite National Park will soon find out, when the park moves to a reservation-only entry …
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is helping lead a new Stanford University initiative to provide “one-stop shopping” for government, businesses and the public to obtain timely information about …
Aurora Sanchez was confident she was doing the right thing, following her husband to the United States from El Salvador to start a new life and a family. She hadn’t …
The golden road to pharmaceutical riches can quickly become a rocky wilderness trail. Chemical compounds that hit a target in the lab often fall short in human studies. But biotech …
Since their creation decades ago, mind-altering drugs have remained as unchanged as bellbottoms, tie-dye and patchouli oil. Now — full of promise and peril — psychedelics are undergoing a makeover. …
Q: My family and I have lived near the Almaden Expressway-Camden Avenue intersection in San Jose for 30-plus years. A coming-of-age milestone for our three children was when they were …
A CEO fired this fall from a major Bay Area technology company is accused in a new lawsuit of enslaving his assistant and sending her into “a dark abyss of …
The homes Brookfield Properties is building in Dublin are typical of those that draw first-time buyers to the suburbs — 2,200 square feet, two-car garages and enough bedrooms to support …
Q: Susan McLean wrote recently about bus service from Santa Cruz to Diridon station in San Jose. A bus driver’s actions when encountering an emergency were professional and kept everyone …