A downtown spring cleanup, a free recycling event and spring dance show are in the works.
Caltrans work will prompt the partial closure of El Camino Real in San Mateo this week.
Foster City resident Patrica Niederhofer said she and other Foster City seniors rely on the bus service to get around.
Do you know what our county's Grand Jury does? And, do you have ideas on how to improve the lives of local disabled persons?
There's been job growth on the Peninsula in leisure and hospitality, information, and construction.
The sales tax will rise from 8.5 percent to 9 percent in all San Mateo County cities except San Mateo and Half Moon Bay.
The USO's motto is, "Until every one comes home." On Friday night, at a home in San Mateo County, one family experienced this joy.
The city's 36th annual Easter egg hunt will take place Saturday at Central Park.
Not sure what to do if you encounter wildlife in San Mateo or Foster City? The Peninsula Humane Society is here to help.
John Kelley, now 50, was arrested after the sheriff's office reopened the case last year.
A new report indicates community health in the San Mateo County is among the best in the state. What do you think?
Economic Development in San Mateo focuses on retaining current business and attracting new business to maintain a healthy economic base.
The state average for high school class size is 23.6. How does your school rate?
The 51-year-old man isolated himself in a hospital room with a knife before his arrest earlier this month.
In a long-running case against Deborah Madden of San Mateo, the former police crime lab technician pleaded guilty Friday to a charge of possessing cocaine in 2009.
The open house will take place on March 28.
San Mateo County drivers who prefer to head to Costco for gas will soon see eight new pumps at the superstore's gas station.
The twin tunnels were the result of a major planning project following a decades-long problem of numerous rockslides and slip outs following large storms.
The World Championship Trophy tour will stop in San Mateo this month, featuring both the 2010 and 2012 trophies.
The city of San Mateo will darken its lights for one hour on Saturday, March 23.
The female body was discovered on Caltrain tracks in San Jose on Monday morning.
Payment options will include FasTrak or "license plate accounts."
A group of Democrats authored SB 140, the first new gun control bill to pass since the Newtown school shooting in December.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area visitors spent an estimated $290 million in 2011, a new study shows.
The incident occurred in San Bruno at about 6:30 p.m. Monday.
The comet named after the array of cameras and telescopes on Mount Haleakala on Maui may sport a very cool dust tail, says NASA, and it's one the first of two comets expected over the Northern Hemisphere in 2013.
The declaration makes East Palo Alto eligible for more than $2 million in state funds to repair damage to a levee on San Francisquito Creek that failed during a Dec. 23, 2012, storm.
The city's third annual “Be Ready, Be Safe, Be Involved” campaign aims to ensure emergency preparedness and strengthen neighborhoods within San Mateo.
The Pescadero marsh and lagoon system is home to dozens of bird species and endangered animals, including the red-legged frog, the tidewater goby, the San Francisco garter snake, steelhead trout and Coho salmon.
The city of San Mateo throws out about 42 percent of its violations.
Real estate website forecasts prices to increase for 2013 in all but one Bay Area zip code
Nearly 700 guns were collected at a gun buyback event in San Mateo last month.
A newly published study by the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park says anticipated population increases in this century mean more people will die in earthquakes.
The storm damaged repair project, which will take place on a 13.7 mile stretch in Burlingame, begins Feb. 25.
The transit agency's Go Pass allows employers to purchase an annual pass for unlimited rides throughout Caltrain’s system for all employees.
Investigators were forced to detonate homemade explosive devices found in the suspects home in his front yard.
Mylar balloons that fly away get tangled on power lines and cause outages.
Who can forget the baby squirrels, pelicans and ducklings the Peninsula Humane Society has rescued?
The thousands of gallons of treated water that spilled into the San Mateo Creek on Saturday killed more than 100 fish.
The county is promoting Preteen Vaccine Week in an effort to encourage parents to have their 11-12 year olds vaccinated.