Mountain View is making strides with its plan to rezone parts of the city to create more opportunities to build more homes, ...

Adam Hardesty looks through floor plans at his home in Carlsbad on Feb. 19, 2025. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters In a dispute over whether he can convert his three-story condominium’s garage into ...

In summary He says state law gives him the right to turn his garage into an apartment. His HOA says it doesn’t. Who’s right? Adam Hardesty insists he wanted to do everything by the book.  Before ...

As wildfires swept through Los Angeles County last month, the New York Times published a commentary by former insurance commissioner Dave Jones, who suggested that oil companies should pay for the ...

Palo Alto’s Byxbee parkrun is the only Northern California affiliate of an international running group founded in London 20 ...

West Bay Opera spins some vocal confections with Bellini's sleep-walking melodrama "La sonnambula." The opera is rarely staged, so this production offers quite an opportunity to catch it.

This week: concerts with Latin folk musician Diana Gameros and Martha High's Funky Divas; a tribute to the music of Willie Nelson will raise funds for LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

California’s new Low Carbon Fuel Standard has been stalled because it lacks ”clarity.” The new standard, which offers ...

Mountain View Mayor Ellen Kamei is eager to see some of her top priorities make it across the finish line, despite the ...

A federal investigation has found more than $135,370 earmarked for preschool education program Head Start was misappropriated ...

Two students walk to class at Los Padres Elementary School in Salinas on Feb. 11, 2025. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local As the setting for John Steinbeck’s 1950s classic “East ...

The timing could not have been better — or worse. The horrendously destructive and deadly Los Angeles wildfires erupted in January just as Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s historic and very ...