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Ana Sarver jogs five miles along the Contra Costa Canal every day. But water from the 10-foot wide channel, just a few steps from Sarver's front door in Pleasant Hill, doesn't flow through her taps. Her water comes from the Mokelumne River basin - 100 miles...

From the day they took office, President Obama and his economic advisers have insisted that reforming health care, which consumes $1 of every $6 spent in the United States, is central to fixing the nation's fiscal problems. But the chief of the Congressional...

An expanded search has failed to locate a San Carlos man who has been missing since Thursday, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office. A car belonging to Douglas John May, 55, was found early Friday morning near the El Corte Madera Open Space...

Two Oakland men were killed early this morning in separate shootings, Oakland police said. At approximately 12:10 a.m., officers responded to a call about shots fired near the corner of 14th and Chestnut streets and found Avery Thompson, 49, suffering from...

The operator of the Muni train involved in Saturday's crash at West Portal Station told investigators he blacked out shortly before the accident, a source close to the probe told The Chronicle. Today, the National Transportation Safety Board opened an...

Assembly Speaker wasn't sure whether a flight could get her to Big 5 meeting in time

Man, 55, believed to be in rugged Skeggs Point area

Propane tanks reportedly exploded in four-alarm fire

National Transportation Safety Board wants to know why the operator, who was among the seriously injured, had switched to manual mode

Authorities negotiating with Mexico for man's return in death of girl, 16, found behind a restaurant in 2003.

Club America won 5-4 in penalty kicks after the teams played to a 1-1 draw in regulation before a crowd of 31,026 at Stanford Stadium on Sunday.

The World Football Challenge, a six-team round robin international soccer tournament, transformed the brainy Stanford University campus on Sunday into a rowdy, horn-blaring, international sports Mardi Gras, where thousands of Club América yellow jerseys and flags dueled with Inter Milan's royal blue and black.

On Saturday, relatives welcomed the family as they docked at Brisbane Marina, officially ending a 40,000-mile voyage that began in September 2006.

Search and rescue personnel decided today to scale back the search for a man who never returned from a hike Thursday in the rugged Skeggs Point area of unincorporated San Mateo County, a sheriff's sergeant said.

The Santa Clara County Public Health Department turns to social networking to help prevent outbreaks and spread health tips.

An evacuation order has been implemented in Brentwood Sunday night due to a four-alarm fire burning at an auto dismantling yard on Brentwood Boulevard, according to a fire spokesman.

Monterey County sheriff's deputies arrested two of three suspects allegedly involved in a burglary in San Lucas Sunday afternoon, according to the sheriff's office.

Bobby Abreu was fooled by Brett Anderson's nasty slider on a fourth-inning strikeout. In the seventh, Abreu waited for the same pitch and delivered.

Search and rescue personnel decided Sunday afternoon to scale back the search for a man who never returned from a hike Thursday in the rugged Skeggs Point area of unincorporated San Mateo County, a sheriff's sergeant said.

Two homicides in Oakland early Sunday morning claimed the lives of an 18-year-old man and a 49-year-old man, a police spokesman said.

Evacuations were ordered in Brentwood Sunday night due to a four-alarm fire burning at an auto dismantling yard.

New details are emerging following Saturday's Muni train crash in the city that left dozens of people hurt.

Negotiators for BART management and its 2,800-plus union workers will return to the bargaining table on Monday after the transit agency's two largest unions rejected management's offer by overwhelming...

Most people head to the zoo to see the wild life, but it will have a green feel to it this Sunday.

Looking for a Sunday freebie? Look no further.

BY HEATHER IRWIN FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Hardy Wallace, above, is one of 10 finalists vying for a job with Murphy-Goode Winery. The winner will be the winery's new lifestyle correspondent using social networking to attract newcomers to the winery.

BY MARY CALLAHAN THE PRESS DEMOCRAT There was a point July 9 when Cody Mittleman was just 24 hours away from some of the best care available for a young man who appeared to be losing his grip on reality.

BY MARTIN ESPINOZA THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Sonoma County supervisors Monday will try to determine if Sutter Health’s proposed 70-bed, $175 million hospital in Santa Rosa is too small or just right for the community.

BY KEVIN McCALLUM and NATHAN HALVERSON THE PRESS DEMOCRAT The 70.3 mile Vineman half-triathlon was marred Sunday when a tree fell on cyclists, severely injuring a San Francisco man and sending two others for treatment with broken collarbones. The tree, above, was cut up and the competition continued.

Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of “Angela’s Ashes,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of woe about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer at age 78.

SAN FRANCISCO — Motivational speaker Shawn Anderson is pedaling 4,000 miles on the Extra Mile America Tour, which is intended to spotlight organizations and individuals across the country who are helping people live more purposeful and passionate lives.

The transit agency’s largest union, the BART chapter of SEIU Local 1021, and BART’s second largest union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, will return to negotiations this week.

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Municipal Railway N-Judah line resumed service just before 9:30 p.m. Sunday after an overhead wire problem disrupted service earlier in the evening, an agency spokesman said.

KINGSTON, JAMAICA — Even now, about three years after a near-fatal gay bashing, Sherman gets jittery at dusk. On bad days, his blood quickens, his eyes dart, and he seeks refuge indoors.

Waterbar: Chef Parke Ulrich’s menu features fresh sustainable seafood, and on Mondays, diners can enjoy a three-course prix-fixe shellfish dinner with champagne ($60). Today’s meal includes baked stuffed mussels with spinach and bacon; seared Arctic char with braised Little Gems, English peas and Wailupe clams; and nectarine cobbler with brown-sugar Chantilly.

Frank McCourt, the author of "Angela's Ashes", an "epic of woe" died Sunday.

The operator of a Muni train that crashed Saturday is coming under scrutiny.

The family of a captured Idaho soldier prayed for his safe return Sunday.

The measure of what humanity can accomplish is a size 9 1/2 bootprint.

For the first time all week, Tom Watson showed his 59-year-old nerves Sunday.

Assembly Speaker wasn't sure whether a flight could get her to Big 5 meeting in time

Man, 55, believed to be in rugged Skeggs Point area

Propane tanks reportedly exploded in four-alarm fire

National Transportation Safety Board wants to know why the operator, who was among the seriously injured, had switched to manual mode

n Panel conducted first round of interviews last week; acting leader says he was among those who met with group

CalFire crews are battling a brush fire along Steele Canyon Road, near Lake Berryessa, Sunday.

Elizabeth Jardine-Pereira and Patrick Pereira continued a longstanding family tradition last week by spending a few summer days at Lake Berryessa’s Steele Park Resort.

While four Lake Berryessa resorts remain closed and the process of awarding the contracts drags along, the Bureau of Reclamation still plans to have all resorts open by next summer, according to Mike Finnegan, area manager for the federal agency.

A rare commodity is coming on the market in Napa County this week, as state officials will field applications for five new liquor licenses to be distributed to lucky inns, restaurants or resorts in Napa County.

Détente has been declared between St. Helena and the Napa Valley Wine Train, but Mayor Del Britton isn’t so sure that St. Helena citizens are ready to lay down their arms.