Southern California. He previously reported on New Jersey's attorney general and prison system for The Star-Ledger and NJ.com and Missouri politics for The Associated Press. Born and raised in San ...

One man sleeping in a Mercedes was interested in shelter. Another man on a sidewalk outside Chick-fil-A said he was “home-free, not homeless.” Three women living in a 20-year-old Toyota Camry ...

Three orphaned mountain lion cubs, Fern, Thistle, and Spruce, rescued in California’s Portola Valley, are being cared for at ...

Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

The city of Oakland will lose 30% of its firefighting capacity in the next two weeks due to the city’s $129.8 million budget ...

First, find out the National Occupational Classification (NOC) for your job. Then check if it meets the requirements for skilled work experience.

The three rescued cubs were relatively healthy but thin after it was determined the mother was absent for about two weeks before their rescue, zoo officials said.

The Waterfront Hotel, one of Oakland's most iconic hotels, is closing its doors for good Friday, marking a significant blow to the city's economic landscape.

Hundreds of security service workers at Kaiser Permanente are slated to lose their jobs this week across the Oakland-based ...

A 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, plus additional tariffs on China, could drive up prices on everything from ...

This was back in the early 70s. We hitchhiked out of San Diego on Highway 5 from Pacific Beach to Marysville, by Sacramento, and then we hopped freight trains all the way to Seattle, 1,255 miles. We ...