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Looping, rolling and gliding between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, the Blue Angels are coming to amaze and delight the Bay Area again, along with a host of other offerings during Fleet Week, which begins Monday and ends Sunday. The Blue Angels will perform Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Other...

A few years back, Laura Martinez Perez picked up a violin for the first time and joined a group of aspiring young musicians banded together at Santa Rosa’s Luther Burbank Center for the Arts learning to play mariachi music. She joined at her mother’s urging — who hoped Perez...

The day before her first track meet, Mountain View High School senior Hannah Rutherford couldn’t get the baton handoff right during practice. The problem? She was just too fast. The next day, she brought that same speed and tenacity to the 100-meter dash — which she won by 30...

Columbia, Maryland, Fremont, California and Huntington Beach, California, ranked as the top three best cities for women to lay down roots. The post Here Are The Best And Worst Cities For Women To Live In 2024: Study appeared first on MadameNoire.

MONTEREY CO.: WOMAN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF ATTEMPTED MURDER AFTER 83-YEAR-OLD WOMAN FOUND SEVERELY BEATEN

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Do you have a gardening question? The UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County can help. Our volunteers are part of the University of California’s Cooperative Extension program and we are trained to use research-based information to educate our fellow residents on sustainable gardening and landscaping practices specifically for our area.

Walking into Starbird is like stepping into the future of fast food. Starbird, a fast food chain based in California, opened a new Palo Alto location on Sept 13 at 2515 El Camino Real, next to Chipotle. The restaurant offers crispy chicken, fresh salads, and unique sauces just five minutes away from Palo Alto High School.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... KEY DEPARTURES … After more than 15 years in Palo Alto and five years at the helm of City of Palo Alto Utilities, Director Dean Batchelor is preparing for retirement. The city is preparing to launch a search for a new leader for the Utilities Department. Batchelor had worked at PG&E and at Alameda Municipal Power and Telecom before he came to Palo Alto, where he worked as an assistant director and the Utilities Department’s chief operating officer before getting appointed director in 2019. Under his leadership, the department has launched several giant ongoing projects, including the upgrade of the city’s electric grid and a massive expansion of the fiber backbone. The city’s Utilities Advisory Commission is set to discuss next week the qualities that they would like to see in the next utilities director. His is not the only notable departure. Chief Planning Official Amy French, who had spent 26 years at City Hall and enjoyed stints as assistant planning director and supervising code enforcement officer, concluded her tenure on Oct. 1. French has been at the forefront of many significant and contentious planning efforts, including the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan, the new vision for the Ventura neighborhood and zoning changes to encourage accessory dwelling units. To honor her contributions, the City Council is set to approve on Oct. 7 a resolution that lists her many achievements and commends her as “a mentor who has trained many new planners who have moved into managerial roles; and has earned the respect of her colleagues through her personable nature, depth of knowledge, and ability to collaborate with individuals across the organization.”

(KRON) — More than 1 million ballots for the November 5 Presidential General Election are being mailed out to homes across Santa Clara County. County election officials said “Vote by Mail” packets are in the process of being sent to 1,041,499 registered voters. Every active registered voter will receive a Vote by Mail ballot, officials […]

On lazy Saturdays in fifth grade, I spent entire afternoons outside exploring the neighborhood and digging around my garden. At that age, freedom from responsibility meant that I had a seemingly infinite amount of time on my hands. The neighborhood was my endless playground. Hours upon hours were spent playing hide and seek and lifting stones to see what was underneath. Yet, as vividly as these memories once filled my mind, I find them fading away as I enter my junior year of high school. Juggling an ever-increasing amount of work meant that I could no longer live life with the carefree nature of my childhood.

The Mountain View Academy Mustangs lost 3-0 to the Basis Independent Silicon Valley Bobcats on Wednesday. Mountain View Academy was not held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the third set very close. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-9, 25-7, 25-22.

This story aired in the October 8, 2024 episode of Crosscurrents. If you were here in the Bay Area in 2020, you probably remember that one eerie September day when The sky was a deep, foreboding orange. Some of the smoke that day came from the CZU Lightning Complex Fire in San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties. That blaze burned more than 86,000 acres and nearly 1000 homes. It also killed a 73-year-old man who lived alone.

Milpitas is seeking an order against its former city manager to stop him from leaking information prior to a trial, the latest saga in an ongoing legal battle. Last December, ousted City Manager Steve McHarris filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Milpitas, accusing city officials of intimidation and unethical behavior — including Mayor Carmen Montano. The city denied wrongdoing and hired an outside law firm to conduct its own investigation into the same issues.

Kim Rixen, the mother of a Navy navigation technician, was reunited with her son aboard the USS Somerset, as the ship embarked to San Francisco Fleet Week.Her son, Connor, joined the Navy one-and-a-half years ago. Connor grew up in the East Bay, spending most of his upbringing in El Sobrante. Kim moved to the East Coast, while Connor stayed in the Bay Area where his father, sister, brother, and cousins still live."A lot has changed in my life in the last year and a half. I've seen a lot of new things (and have had) a lot of new experiences....

D’Angelo “D’Lo” Louis is a name who has been behind several of your favorite films. But now he’s working on becoming your next favorite director with his upcoming film Announcements. According to its Seed & Spark page, Announcements follows a young teen in California’s Bay...

History Professor Tobin Miller Shearer will explain his ideas about antirascist spirituality at the Palo Alto Christian Reformed Church on October 27 at 6:00 pm. Free tickets to the event can be ordered online. The church is located on 687 Arastradero Road, near Alta Mesa Memorial Park.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Several roads throughout Menlo Park will experience traffic signal shutdowns at night in the upcoming week due to upcoming construction activities from various agencies, according to a news item from the city of Menlo Park. The signal between Sand Hill Road and the Northbound...

MENLO PARK, Calif. - As the southeast deals with the aftermath of Helene and braces for the wrath of Milton, a California-based urban search and rescue unit is heading out to help. Task Force 3, which is operated out of the Menlo Park Fire Protection District, is deploying now as...

SAN JOSE — The owner of a San Jose housing tower that is mired in a thicket of lawsuits and legal complaints is now attempting to rent, rather than sell, the units in the highrise. The residential building at 188 West St. James Street in downtown San Jose is...

Alex Woods once expected the Silicon Valley technology industry and its world-changing innovations to lift up everyone in the Bay Area. Lately, though, as the region’s cost of living has soared, traffic has worsened, and homelessness and blight have spread, the 38-year-old customer-service representative’s views have changed. “I...