When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

Sooner or later a doomsday asteroid will wipe out most life on Earth—unless, that is, we prevent threatening space rocks from hitting us in the first place ...

The map above shows approximate locations of homicides reported in 2024 in the counties of Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa. Red dots indicate shootings, yellow dots ...

Pedro Pizarro, president and CEO of Edison International, has spoken about the best part of his job: getting to know Edison Scholars, high school students who get a $50,000 scholarship to pursue a ...

What Bay Area sailors are looking forward to during their return home during Fleet Week 03:04 Fleet Week in San Francisco gets underway beginning Oct. 7 with events all across the city ...

Sal Pizarro is a Bay Area News Group columnist who has written the Around Town column for The Mercury News since 2005. His column covers the people and events surrounding the cultural scene in ...

San Francisco rests on the tip of a peninsula ... There's also multiple trails that warrant exploration, including the scenic Wood Line, situated right along the Lovers' Lane Trail, and the ...

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