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Alta CA: Daniel Patterson has brought market-driven, region-specific dishes to mid-Market in a new restaurant named after a 19th century newspaper.

A four-hour drive from the nearest cellular coverage in the remote highlands of Papua, Indonesia, a new kind of guerilla telecom network is operating, albeit outside the law, using a cheap base station roped into a treetop.

Sonoma County prosecutors on Tuesday charged a second person with obstructing police officers during a protest of the killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez.

Although the recent cold snap would argue for an earlier date, the official start of winter is on Saturday, Dec. 21. It's the shortest day of the year, when the sun is farthest south in the sky at noon.

East Bay Express caught the news that ~BARKADA~ is now offering brunch on weekends from 8:30am-3pm.

Mary Brown-Vennard, left, and other CIP students works with instructor Jennifer Kilby to fill out schedules for end-of-semester and school break activities at the CIP Office in Long Beach.

Gypsy Taub, who led the rally, is handcuffed by police Sunday November 17, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.

Lots of beautiful cookbooks from Bay Area restaurants, chefs, and writers are gracing our shelves this year.

As the world girds itself for a U.S. exit from extraordinary monetary policies, academics are looking at two key questions.

A man uses a fitness wristband and its smartphone application. While some fitness gadgets can improve your performance, some people like to unplug altogether during workouts.

A new instrument that combines two high-resolution telescope techniques adaptive optics and interferometry has for the first time distinguished and studied the individual stars in a nearby binary star system, demonstrating promise for eventually picking out planets around other stars.

The brother of a San Lorenzo man who was deliberately run over by a suspect outside the family's business in Berkeley said today that he hopes the 15th anniversary of the crime will generate new leads in the unsolved case.

Aurora Theatre Company presents Bay Area cabaret star Craig Jessup in concert with A SWELL NOL.

A former Alameda County Superior Court judge who pleaded no contest to criminal charges that he stole more than $1 million from an elderly neighbor while acting as if he was looking after her affairs is now formally barred from ever returning to the bench or working for state courts in any capacity, a judicial panel announced Monday.

The University of California, Berkeley , has chosen to become "a finishing school for the superrich of Asia" in order to survive financially, argues one of its employees, Economics Prof.

More than half of all adults in the United States take some sort of multivitamin; many do so in hopes of preventing heart disease and cancer or even to aid with memory.

The attempted armed robbery of a UC Berkeley student as she walked alone on a pathway early Sunday morning marked the fifth robbery or attempted robbery on or near campus in less than a week, police said.

The attempted armed robbery of a UC Berkeley student as she walked alone on a pathway early Sunday morning marked the fifth robbery or attempted robbery on or near campus in less than a week, police said.

The survey , conducted for WalletHub, came up with a consensus that the economy will continue to slowly grow during the coming year, making it yet another transitory period until more activity takes place in 2015.

New research published published online in Cell Reports on December 12, 2013 with the nematode C. elegans suggests that combining mutants can lead to radical lifespan extension.