Professional stylist Ariel Mei Gilliam is teaching young people in Oakland the basics of fashion. She hopes they take away much more than just that.

For 12 years, Daniel Burns quietly cleaned and landscaped a stretch of Frontage Road in West Oakland. Then he opened a TikTok account.

Samuel Hinojosa worked with Mike Shmakov for years preparing for his competitive debut.

The Duveneck family bought the Los Altos Hills ranch in 1924 and soon began using the property to support causes they believed in.

Members of the Miraj Sustainable Racing Team build a solar race car, and four friends create Zeno, an application to detect Parkinson’s disease. Garvin Thomas reports.

Cake4Kids volunteers bake birthday cakes for children who otherwise wouldn’t have one on their special day. This week, Cake4Kids will deliver their 30,000th cake to a child in the Bay Area.

Allen Rush studied ways in which AI could aid medical research, such as early detection of cancers like the one his daughter, Jaqueline, died from.

FabMo is a nonprofit based in Sunnyvale that collects samples from places like San Francisco’s Design Center and then makes them available to artists, craftspeople and teachers at its store.

When Virginia Hislop’s husband was called to active duty in 1940, she had to leave behind her studies at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education.

The end of the school year at colleges usually means mountains of trash being thrown out, often perfectly good items that students don’t have the room to take with them. Santa Clara University is trying to curb that waste and help those in need at the same time. Garvin Thomas reports.

For years, Sharon Alexander has been feeding those living under Interstate 980 in Oakland – even when her circumstances were not much better. Garvin Thomas reports.

Air National Guard Sgt. Juan Acosta nominated his manager, Mariela Trabanino, for the Patriotic Employer Award. Garvin Thomas reports.

For years, Sharon Alexander has been feeding those living under Interstate 980 in Oakland – even when her circumstances were not much better. Garvin Thomas reports.