Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed to a minor league contract with the Athletics that includes a signing bonus of $1,

Ten years ago, none of California’s 58 counties counted Asians as their largest ethnic group. Now, two do: Alameda County, which includes the cities of Oakland and Berkeley, and Santa Clara ...

Japan’s Hokkaido is set to host the seafood fair at Japanese supermarkets in the US city of Torrance, California, showcasing scallops and chum salmon products

Piggie dumplings, cutting-edge art, a fortune-cookie factory with a modern mission — Chinatown is where it’s at.

Petrified wood is one of the most sought-after materials in the world for both its aesthetic value and its scientific value. But in Indonesia, miners who risk their lives to dig it up barely make enough to get by.

As a Native American photographer, the late Dugan Aguilar loved nothing more than to show Native American faces. “I see beauty in people,” he once said. And for Aguilar, who devoted more than 40

Anthony Tam ate a cake he couldn’t forget. Baked by his brother in Malaysia with a special milk from Hokkaido, Japan, it had a creamy texture and fleeting flavor that blew him away. Years later, when Tam opened his own cake business in the Bay Area,

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki says in an Instagram post he intends to sign with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. A 23-year-old right-hander whose fastball tops 100 mph, Sasaki will join fellow Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a move that many baseball executives have long expected.

Excitement is building for a new food hall opening in the coming months in West Oakland, where community leaders have been working to revitalize the diverse and historically rich area.

From the Scottish Highland Gathering and Games to the Aloha Festival, here are eight Bay Area cultural festivals to add to your 2025 calendar.

Los Angeles took over as California's top city after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fires. What lessons can L.A. learn from this latest disaster?