The Stakes” is a UC Berkeley Journalism project on executive orders and actions affecting Californians and their communities. SINCE PRESIDENT DONALD ...

SILICON VALLEY IS KNOWN for technological innovation, but its jails are running on paper — and it’s fueling a public safety crisis. Santa Clara County is ...

Berkeley City Manager Paul Buddenhagen initiated a citywide hiring freeze earlier this week in order to help address a budget deficit heading into the ...

IN THE NEAR FUTURE, whenever a resident flushes their toilet on Treasure Island’s west side, the wastewater will travel to the east side, to an innovative ...

Formerly homeless residents from three big encampments are already moving into a newly converted transitional housing project in West Oakland after the ...

The city of Antioch has announced Interim Police Chief Joe Vigil and Interim Assistant City Manager Brad Helfenberger will both take their jobs on a ...

Bay Area wine lovers have a chance to taste wines from some of the most notable producers in Napa Valley at the Taste of Yountville this Sunday, April 27, ...

Monterey County has placed its first vending machine in its county jail that dispenses free access to opioid overdose reversal medication and other health ...

THE SAN MATEO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS raised concerns over spending in the Sheriff’s Office, though Sheriff Christina Corpus did not attend the ...

LEILANY HUERTA-HERNANDEZ remembers her throbbing headaches in the late afternoons because she couldn’t afford to purchase food as a West Valley College ...

National Dance Week was founded in the U.S. in 1981 to increase Americans’ understanding and appreciation of the diverse, ...

A San Francisco man who served in the Biden administration at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to ...