This year’s report highlights the 50th anniversary of the historic 1964 Surgeon General’s report that linked smoking to lung cancer and other diseases for the first time.
Thousands of rape kits sit unprocessed in evidence rooms across California.
The program is being tested in five cities, including Palo Alto.
Small fires around the Bay Area have been quickly extinguish without losing any homes.
There have been more deaths in Santa Clara County than any other county in the Bay Area.
An open house will be held in Los Altos Thursday evening.
State officials mobilized a Drought Task Force earlier this month.
PleaseGovern.org is a new organization that's using technology to mobilize voters.
The Bay Area is on pace to break the record for the number of winter Spare the Air alerts in a single season.
A 41-year-old woman who died shortly before Christmas in Santa Clara County's first flu death of the season, health officials said Friday.
The temporary increase is supposed to generate new revenue to make up for big losses in 2008 and 2011.
Another Spare the Air alert has been issued.
The man says he is a former employee of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the agency that calls the Spare-the-Air Alerts.
This is the 24th alert the air district has issued since the Winter Spare the Air season started Nov. 1.
The increase is expected to average an extra 19 cents per ride.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed nearly 1,000 bills into law in 2013; here's a selection of some of the more notable measures that will soon go into effect.
Without extensions from Congress, several important tax breaks may end.
Sunday's ban is the 22nd of the season.
These fraudsters may even rattle off the last four digits of your Social Security number to appear legit.
Need to burn off some calories from a big Christmas dinner?
The Spare the Air alert bans wood burning both indoors and outdoors due to unhealthy pollution levels throughout the Bay Area.
A new statewide website makes preparing for earthquakes fun and interactive.
More than two million Americans contract antibiotic-resistant infections each year.
Regular office hours will resume on Dec. 30.
Air travel expected to be disrupted for several hours this morning.
An elderly man in China is second person infected with deadly H7N9 influenza virus.
This is Tracy, a kitten available from Pueblo Animal Services for just $12.
You have just a few weeks left to make some final tax moves for the 2013 tax year.
This marks a full week for the Alert.
"BART must pay $800 million toward the cost of new rail cars -- this fare increase will help us achieve that goal."
It's getting so bad that even healthy people are coughing. The worst air in the Bay Area--the Santa Clara Valley.
Our miserably cold weather traps wood smoke close to the ground, raising air pollution to unhealthy levels.
By the way, I'm just 12 bucks. And I'm 4 years old -- I think.
All federal offices in the Washington, D.C. area have been closed today.
Its collection includes more than 1.9 million books, videos, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks, eBooks and extensive online resources accessible from home or work.
A new federal rule expands the time allowed for accidental eagle deaths due to encounters with wind turbines.
Wood burning is banned in the Bay Area Monday.