Baraka Carter has been appointed as the new fire chief for the Redwood City Fire Department, which also serves San Carlos, City Manager Melissa Stevenson ...

Contra Costa County is looking for a new auditor-controller.  Robert Campbell announced his retirement this week after more than three decades working for ...

Scrambling to respond to the Trump administration’s late Monday night directive to pause a wide, but as-yet-unspecified, swath of federal spending ...

Allocations from California’s State Water Project continue to slowly trend upwards this winter, with water managers announcing a 5% increase in requested ...

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Oakland Zoo has three new orphaned mountain lion cubs.  The zoo said Wednesday on social media the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) ...

In hour two of a meeting that stretched to nearly five, Josh Salcman, barely two months on the Palo Alto Unified School Board, said aloud what other ...