Forty percent of the U.S. science Nobel Prizes were won by immigrants. Omar Yaghi, a 2025 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry, left his post at the University of California, Berkeley this year to direct ...

California renters, the recent hikes in your housing costs could be worse. My trusty spreadsheet analyzed Zillow data on rent and home prices for 50 larger U.S. metropolitan areas, including six in ...

After two decades of operation, waterfront staple Zio Fraedo’s has announced that its Vallejo location will soon close, with owners citing rising rental costs and increasingly tight restaurant margins ...

A man booked a “quiet” Airbnb in Toronto, only to be jolted awake by noise every night. An agent promised a refund, but ...

Santa Clara County has leased two big San Jose office buildings that have just been bought.

Patrick Cant is a Bay Area News Group wire editor for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. He holds a BA in ...

Cyrus Farivar is a deputy local editor for the Bay Area News Group, and oversees a team of reporters in Oakland and Concord.

As the city of San Jose presented its draft standards on data centers to the public for the first time Thursday evening, dozens of residents demanded an immediate pause or moratorium on the sites amid ...

Marco Santarelli of Norada Capital Management was sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison and must pay restitution.

The president is undermining his own goals of promoting U.S. exports and competitiveness,” said one economist.