An elementary school student at North Star Academy in Redwood City, California watches students play basketball on the blacktop at the end of the school day. (Hannah Woodworth/Peninsula Press) On Oct.

BAY AREA — The Bay Area is a hub for capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art form that’s all about creativity, communication and community. Experience the capoeira roda, or circle, in 360 degrees.

PALO ALTO – Palo Alto is exploring ways to redesign four of its Caltrain railroad crossings that have become traffic bottlenecks and scenes of frequent accidents.

Jack Todd became a sports columnist for the Montreal Gazette in the 1990s. Today, he works freelance but still writes with all the verve and critical assessment as he did when he was a full-time ...

Persistent over-enrollment in Mountain View’s schools is prompting the district to redraw school boundaries, a move that administrators hope will balance out enrollment in schools by the 2016-2017 ...

Dignitá is a San Francisco coffee shop that serves as a job skills training ground for young women survivors emerging from what is often years of trafficking and abuse.

Siqi graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism in the summer of 2015 with Cum Laude Honors in Journalism. She started her career on the digital media team of China Central Television’s American ...

BAY AREA — Armies of trolls are bombarding Bay Area Filipino activists on Facebook through disinformation campaigns and online harassment. But Facebook’s response to two attacks has left the activists ...

New “Good. To Go.” program identifies corner stores in food deserts — neighborhoods lacking major supermarkets — aiming to increase access to healthy food and beverages in low-income neighborhoods.

Around the state, dozens of people work year-round to mitigate impacts of an atmospheric river.

In the race for California’s 13th State Senate district, two candidate are drawing their sharpest contrasts with one another on issues related to race and police reform. From first-time voters to long ...

SAN JOSE, Calif – The 90-minute commute to work as an air conditioning refrigeration mechanic at San Jose State University now feels short to Aaron Flores. During the 80-mile drive from the Central ...