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A key building at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center has been named to honor Susie Wilson, the late Santa Clara County Supervisor who was a champion of the hospital throughout her time in elected office — and even after it …

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. State should deregulate home insurance market Re: “State Farm seeks 22% homeowner rate hikes” (Page A1, Feb. 4). The Mercury News article provides a great …

San Mateo County confirmed for the first time the presence of bird flu in a backyard poultry flock in San Mateo this week after the owner contacted the state agriculture department’s Sick Bird Hotline. The H5N1 incident was one of …

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. A debate is crucial for robust mayoral race I supported Loren Taylor in the last Oakland mayoral election, and I support him now. It’s troubling …

Rich Lyons is Cal’s fifth chancellor in the past two decades but nothing like his predecessors. On the job since July, Lyons doesn’t just wear blue; he bleeds it. He was in the stands for ‘The Play’ in 1982 and …

Former San Ramon Valley coach Hans de Lannoy died on Wednesday after a nearly seven-year battle with cancer. He was 72.  De Lannoy coached all over the Bay Area, but was a legend at SRV where he coached the boys …

MARTINEZ — The first words jurors heard on Thursday came from 29-year-old Rashanda Franklin, spoken moments before she was shot and killed nearly eight years ago, while her son watched in horror. “My ex-boyfriend is stalking me,” Franklin told a …

SAN JOSE – Veteran defenseman Mario Ferraro wants to play in the playoffs and he wants to do it with the San Jose Sharks. “That’s a dream of mine, is to be able to play playoff hockey in this jersey,” …

Taylor Swift’s attendance at Sunday’s Super Bowl has been confirmed, but it’s not known whether she’ll surround herself, as she did at last year’s NFL championship, with a crowd of celebrity girlfriends, particularly her embattled pal Blake Lively, as she …

OAKLAND — Attorneys for former Mayor Sheng Thao and her alleged co-conspirators charged in a blockbuster felony bribery case said Thursday they will need to sift through hundreds of thousands of files in a discovery process that is expected to …

Yong Wu has opened an omakase outpost in downtown Redwood City, after a decade spent on the Bay’s high-end omakase sushi restaurant scene. The restaurant is named Sushi Ai — Ai means love in Chinese and Japanese. Sushi Ai owners …

A splashy new book that quotes palace staffers on their insights into the British royal family reveals that Kate Middleton actually found Meghan Markle “delightful” when the American TV actor first began dating Prince Harry. Both Kate and Prince William …

Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s world-premiere staging of “The Thing About Jellyfish” is really two kinds of plays fused into one. The first is a touching drama, adapted by Keith Bunin from Ali Benjamin’s 2015 novel of the same name, about a …

The clock has struck noon, and the Warriors have put their pencils down. Wednesday night’s dramatic acquisition of Heat star Jimmy Butler is the one transaction the Warriors made. And it was a big one. The Warriors sent out a …

Fourth of July is still six months away, but Cupertino leaders already are debating whether to bring back a popular fireworks display that got cancelled last year due a multi-million dollar budget deficit. In 2023, the California Department of Tax …

The draft for the NBA All-Star game in its new format will be held live at 3:30 p.m. PT on the TNT pregame show Thursday, Feb. 6. For the first time ever, the game will feature a mini-tournament with four …

By TIA GOLDENBERG TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan to seek U.S. ownership of the Gaza Strip and move out its population infuriated the Arab world. It stunned American allies and other global powers and even flummoxed …

By Chris Megerian, Collin Binkley and Byron Tau | Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives. The ruling came hours before the midnight …

SAN JOSE — Blocks of empty retail fronts in a prime section of San Jose could morph into lively stretches of restaurants, entertainment hubs and shops under a new plan being floated at City Hall. Hines, one of the nation’s …

The U.S. Department of Education will investigate San Jose State for Title IX violations over “the mistreatment of female athletes” in having a transgender woman on its volleyball team. The announcement came less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump …

The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 60,000 people. The nonprofit organization issued notices last week about the hack, which it said it discovered last May. It said it engaged specialists to help investigate …

REDWOOD CITY — A person found shot behind a supermarket died early Thursday, police said. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Peninsula cannabis farm higher-ups accused of wage theft Crime and Public Safety | East Bay firefighter’s child molestation …

As Elon Musk began dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development on Donald Trump’s behalf, and strongmen in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador rejoiced, actor Ben Stiller went on X to slam an evidently fake entertainment news report that says …

The Valkyries added a much-needed perimeter scorer to the roster on Thursday morning. Golden State signed reigning sixth woman of the year Tiffany Hayes, who averaged 9.5 points per game off the bench and shot 40.2% from 3-point distance with …

The sordid and exhausting legal drama between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, her co-star and director of “It Ends With Us,” could end in a settlement, especially with the possibility that Taylor Swift could be deposed and forced to share …

By CHRISTOPHER WEBER | Associated PRess LOS ANGELES  — A California utility said Thursday that its equipment likely sparked a wildfire in Los Angeles that broke out the same day as two massive blazes in the area killed at least …

SAN JOSE — Santana Row in west San Jose has landed three new office tenants and a cafe in a burst of leasing that provides a hopeful counterpoint to the grim challenges that face the Bay Area office market. Calix, …

The Monterey County Department of Health continues testing near the site of the Moss Landing Battery Plant Fire. The county released preliminary findings Jan. 31, reporting that eight sites were tested near the battery plant searching for cobalt, manganese, copper …

Since 2013, my nonprofit, ConnectSafely, has been the official U.S. coordinator for Safer Internet Day, following an agreement between the European Commission and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to officially include the U.S. in what is now a global …

SAN RAMON — Dougherty Valley star Jalen Stokes has been waiting for this game since the start of the school year. “I kind of tried not to think about it too much before the start of the season,” Stokes said. …

The rain from the last in a series of three storms that first started last week blew in Thursday morning considerably colder than the previous two, according to the National Weather Service. It will be well out of the Bay …

CUPERTINO — A Japanese grocery store described as a blend of a supermarket and mini department store has signed a lease for a South Bay building that Sprouts once occupied. Hashi Market, which offers Japanese food, will occupy a former …

By Joe Lovinger | Bloomberg Realtor.com is joining the ranks of companies leaving California for Texas. The real estate listings website, operated by News Corp. subsidiary Move Inc., is relocating its headquarters to Austin from Santa Clara, California. Realtor.com will …

Whether you need a great new show to watch or a sure-fire Super Bowl snack to serve, we are here for you. So let’s get to it, shall we? (As always, be sure to double check event and venue websites …

Disneyland is moving slowly with the rollout of the new $400 Lightning Lane Premier Pass and marketing the line-cutting perk “very gently” with plans to build on the program after the initial launch, according to Disney executives. Related Articles Travel …

WASHINGTON  — A judge has awarded a historic Black church in Washington control over the Proud Boys trademark after the far-right group defaulted on a $2.8 million judgment. The Monday ruling in D.C. Superior Court grants rights to the trademark …

A 22-year-old man was sentenced this week to four years in prison for helping rob a Secret Service agent in Tustin in June following a presidential fundraiser in Los Angeles. Eshon Dwayne Dodson was convicted late last year of second-degree …

In the wake of last month’s devastating Southern California wildfires, Sen. Alex Padilla wants to establish a national Wildfire Intelligence Center to streamline future federal response to such disasters — including in real time as fires break out. The proposed …

An oceanview Newport Coast estate owned by billionaire businessman Paul Merage, inventor of microwave-crisping Hot Pockets turnovers, is on the market for $40 million. Currently, it’s the most expensive listing in guard-gated Pelican Crest on the MLS. RELATED: Of the Bay …

A newly proposed state bill with bipartisan support would keep CAL FIRE firefighters employed year-round — and help with staffing issues, its supporters said. The Fight for Firefighters Act proposes to transition about 3,000 seasonal firefighters who are employed for …