San Mateo County News

The Fourth of July means fireworks, barbecues and, of course, more officers on streets and highways.

Local community college students have helped toughen up policies to restrict smoking at next month's San Mateo County Fair.

San Mateo County prosecutors say a Half Moon Bay man originally charged with setting the house fire that killed his two young sons was sentenced to three years in prison but could get out in as little as seven ...

Two supervisors and other top San Mateo County officials got a tongue-lashing from irate residents at a meeting Wednesday night about the escape of a 17-year-old murder suspect from a nearby juvenile lockup ...

At the ground-breaking ceremony for the tunnels at Devil's Slide in September 2007, Congressman Tom Lantos gave a speech calling the project "the people's tunnels." They had taken decades to develop, he said, ...

The "green" revolution has penetrated the fortified walls of the San Mateo County jail, taking the form of composting, recycling, energy-efficiency and sporks.

A 38-year-old man wept today as he was sentenced by a San Mateo County Superior Court judge to three years in prison in connection with the death of his two young sons in a 2004 San Gregorio house fire.

Fire officials say a person started the fire that began in the Santa Cruz Mountains last month and destroyed 11 buildings.

Kelly-Moore Paints has been overcharging some of its customers for at least four years.

Additional San Mateo County residents are now subject to rules under the light brown apple moth quarantine because new moth finds caused the California Department of Food and Agriculture to expand county ...

After seizing 250 pounds of illegal fireworks in East Palo Alto, police are ramping up a citywide Fourth of July crackdown that will continue throughout the weekend.

It could be said that the baby skunks living under Jean Williams' trailer adopted her, and not the other way around.

A group of women who found themselves out thousands of dollars when their San Mateo weight loss club closed without warning last year are suing the franchise's owner.

A property manager is facing life in prison without parole after being convicted of murdering his longtime employers, a Millbrae couple who suspected he was embezzling money from rent checks.

A San Mateo County Superior Court jury today found a 54-year-old man guilty of brutally beating his employers to death in their Millbrae home in 2006.

East Palo Alto's former planning manager Maria Banico accepted a $375,000 settlement from the city last week after 15 months of negotiations and litigation.

The price of a typical single-family home in the San Francisco area plunged 22.1 percent compared with a year earlier, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price index.

San Mateo County sheriff's investigators continued to search Tuesday for suspects in a triple homicide shooting in unincorporated Redwood City that they said may have begun as a home invasion robbery.

Jun. 24--Soaring prices for gas and airline tickets and a slowing economy are on the verge of catching up with San Mateo County hotels.

Three men approximately 25 to 30 years old were found shot to death inside a residence in San Mateo County's unincorporated Redwood City area Monday afternoon, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's ...