The longtime elected official — who is stepping down this week — says he decided early on to turn the tables on the negative ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am wondering if it would be crass or in poor taste to give a new widow a thoughtful sympathy card with ...

Dear Eric: I don’t suppose I am the only one who feels ghosted by friends and family in their slow response time to texts. I ...

Chestnut bested 14 fellow competitors from across the U.S. and internationally, including Australia, the Czech Republic, ...

That message seemed to reverberate as much as ever as the United States marked the year before its 250th birthday, even amid ...

Search teams were conducting boat rescues as fast-moving water threatened riverfront communities and children’s summer camps ...

Thousands of spectators gathered in downtown Danville to celebrate 249 years of freedom during the annual Fourth of July ...

On a FEMA color-coded hazard map, Alameda, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties are shaded dark red, indicating an area with ...

About 75 Oakland Fire Department personnel responded Friday evening to a major fire engulfing a commercial warehouse in East ...

Things haven’t gone as planned for A’s in Sacramento; Giants have hit the skids with Phillies, Dodgers looming ...

The legislation extends Trump’s 2017 multitrillion-dollar tax cuts and cuts Medicaid and food stamps by $1.2 trillion. It ...