Lisa Fernandez

As activists and historians look back half a century this month to the birthplace of the Black Panthers in October 1966, those who want to walk in the footsteps of the party founders can do so – literally.

Twitter and technology have changed the immediacy and the ability to organize African-Americans to shut down commerce and decry police brutality.

A Sikh comedian who was performing at UC Berkeley over the weekend tweeted that the Transportation Security Administration made him take off his turban in private during the screening process, but then walk in public with his bare head to retie the traditional head covering in the bathrooom.

A strong majority of Americans blame President Donald Trump for the record-long government shutdown and reject his primary rationale for a border wall, according to a new poll that shows the turmoil in Washington is dragging his approval rating to its lowest level in more than a year. Overall, 34 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance in a...

The strange power surges causing BART to shutter service in the East Bay for the second day on Thursday sparked jokes, gripes and generous offers for riders to share seats.

A sea lion blocked the road in Sonoma County on Monday morning, as traffic gawkers looked and marine mammal center crews worked to get the animal out of harm’s way.

The mother of two girls killed in 2016 when the car she was driving plunged into a Petaluma river has reached a tentative plea agreement with prosecutors. The Santa Rosa Press Democrats reports Friday that 27-year-old Alejandra Hernandez last month pleaded no contest to two counts of felony gross vehicular manslaughter.

A Bay Area man who worked as one of President George H.W. Bush’s Press Aide recalls fond memories of his time in the White House as former First Lady Barbara Bush is laid to rest Saturday.

Jeb Bush eulogized his mother, former first lady Barbara Bush, at her private funeral April 21. He read a wedding anniversary letter his father, former President George H.W. Bush, wrote to her.

A portrait of the Orlando gunman’s wife began emerging on Tuesday, the day NBC News sources said she knew about the attack at the gay nightclub and tried to stop it and FBI agents visited her childhood home in Rodeo, California.

As the San Francisco 49ers’ new home, Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, gets ready to host Super Bowl 50 on Sunday, the development company building a new mixed-used complex released time-lapse video of Candlestick Park being torn apart.

CalFire firefighters have battled 290 fires in one week, 2017 in six months.

Five minutes after the contentious presidential debate began broadcasting across the nation, BART’s Twitter team cashed in on election-cycle mania, mocking Donald Trump and pushing people to vote for the transit agency’s $3.5 billion bond measure.

In a show of protest with foreign-born workers across the United States, activists in the Bay Area joined forces by staying home and out of the workplace on Thursday in a national “Day Without Immigrants.”