Stanford graduate who majored in comparative literature with a minor in American studies. She is passionate about language, writing, and documentary jou ...

When Daniel Cormier first came to Gilroy, he was well on his way to becoming a UFC champion. Cormier got his start as a competitive wrestler and had qualified twice for the U.S. Olympic team–Athens in ...

President Donald Trump paused refugee admissions, leaving over 120,000 already approved refugees stranded abroad and cutting the federal funding that flows into local refugee resettlement ...

We need the mill here. It’s his personal phone. I can’t tell you who I am.” Cate and her husband Shawn had recently moved from Kentucky to open Lost Coast Spinnery in Fernbridge, the first wool mill ...

Longtime Sports Illustrated writer and author S.L. Price said Jenkins approaches covering sports with a childlike sense of wonder. “He has a very jazzy, breezy, musical way of speaking,” Price said.

SAN JOSE – A planned Google campus in downtown San Jose has city officials and business advocates anticipating an economic boom – and activists worrying it could further gentrify an area already ...

Sights and sounds from the annual event that brings together artists, hobbyists, scientists, engineers, musicians and other makers of all kinds. Thousands attended the three-day Maker Faire in San ...

Every year from December through April, approximately 35,000 people visit Año Nuevo State Park to see 10,000 elephant seals breed and give birth before returning to the sea. Every Tuesday and Thursday ...

The San Jose Repertory Theatre was a Bay Area staple for 34 years. But its financial woes forced its closure this summer, with “The Big Meal” as its last show ever.

San Jose Mercury News sports columnist Tim Kawakami is not afraid to write what he thinks. In 2013, his dogged reporting earned him California Sportswriter of the Year.