The California Roots Music and Art Festival is back in Monterey this weekend, bringing thousands of visitors and millions of dollars to the local economy.

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SANTA CRUZDrum virtuoso Peter Erskine to play Kuumbwa Jazz Even some of the best-known drummers of all time don’t have quite the extensive resumes that Peter Erskine has. The jazz drummer has lent his ...

For the past four months, many people with friends and family in Iran haven’t known if their loved ones are safe.

Aptos is often overlooked due to its more high-profile neighbors — the “Surf City” of Santa Cruz, just a few miles to the north, as well as the twin tourism capitals of Monterey and Carmel, a ...

The Professional Women’s Hockey League found an interesting way to give its expansion team in San Jose a little bit of a ...

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ICE tracks how many immigrants it sends to solitary confinement each month, but the data is messy and incomplete, a Lee ...

Fast food workers, council members call on Gov. Newsom to appoint a chairperson so the council can meet again.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area loves its big sporting events. With the NBA All-Star Game, Super Bowl and now World Cup all in a ...

California's first-in-the-nation fast food council -- created to give workers a voice on wages, safety and working conditions ...

TV villain lost his house in the Palisades fire. Now he says he can fix the troubled city. History suggests otherwise ...