food festival

Look up: The Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival brings libations and lighter-than-air adventures to Lake Skinner.

The free-to-enter celebration will boast creamy bites, live tunes, activities for kids, and more.

Thistle be good: Pros who know this unusual treat will take to the demo stage during the Monterey event.

The California Artisan Cheese Festival, our state’s “premier cheese festival,” returns to Santa Rosa in May.

A brine time is just ahead for both ocean-y burgs, with a heaping helping of crackers on top.

That delicious thistle, the one with the tender heart, is at the center of this annual Central Coast celebration.

In an effort to aid kelp forests, and help the under-the-waves ecosystem, purple urchins will pop up on plates aplenty.

The Gilroy Garlic Festival is back, but instead of the traditional event, which draws tens of thousands, people can get all the great food in a drive-thru line.

Savory supping and loamy adventures rule as the wintertime gathering returns as an in-person event.

Nosh on all sorts of piquant favorites, from the comfort of your car, at the scaled-back but super-flavorful 2021 to-do.

The dippable to-do will be back at the Monterey County Fairgrounds later in July 2021.

California state lawmakers have just two weeks remaining in their session to sort through hundreds of bills, some addressing volatile topics such as vaccinating children and shootings by police. The session that began in January will end Sept. 13 after lawmakers pile bills on the desk of freshman Gov. Gavin Newsom. He’ll have until mid-October to approve or veto the...

A Sonoma County wine and food festival gets underway Saturday afternoon in Santa Rosa. The Taste of Sonoma starts at noon at the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University. The university is located at 1801 E. Cotati Ave. in Rohnert Park.

The youngest victim of a mass shooting at a California food festival who loved comic books and listening to romantic ballads by his favorite artist was laid to rest Monday.

Keyla Salazar’s family had planned to celebrate her birthday with a trip to a lake, but two days after she would have turned 14, they instead said their final goodbyes to the middle-schooler killed in the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival.

The discovery of a “target list” containing religious institutions, courthouses and other sites compiled by the gunman in the mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival has prompted the FBI to open a domestic terrorism case.

The 19-year-old gunman responsible for killing three people and injuring at least 12 others at the Giilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday was an “outstanding” employee, according to his former boss.

Staring down gunfire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, one father said he rushed the gunman, making it so far as to hear the gunman tell him, “No.”

A famous South American chef says he was stopped as he brought 40 piranhas in a duffel bag through Los Angeles International Airport.