Santa Clara County's last "point in time" survey showed that Palo Alto's homeless population has grown by 113 percent in just two years, the largest increase, by far, in the South Bay.

Katie Treene, 24, who works for a renewable-energy company and lives in San Francisco’s upscale Russian Hill neighborhood, ...

The health care giant and its union agreed to resume bargaining after the strike at hundreds of hospitals in California, ...

Homeless encampments are a part of the landscape in many U.S. cities. In Oakland, California, one of the longest-standing and ...

Prescott Station opens in West Oakland, offering 235 affordable apartments on a former homeless encampment site.

A growing army of volunteers has been taking part in an organic, grassroots effort to help feed the hungry by stocking ...

In his new book “Cargo,” Berkeley photographer Richard Misrach explores the intersection between the natural world and human ...