Alula Alderson is a first-year undergraduate student at Stanford considering a double major in Political Science and Communication. During middle school and high school, she wrote for Scholastic, the ...

In response to six Palo Alto teen suicides during the 2008-09 school year, the City developed a Suicide Prevention Policy, providing a framework for youth mental health services. Now, almost 15 years ...

Rising veterinary bills and new pet health technologies are reshaping the economics of pet ownership, with Gen Z leading the ...

Health experts have taken notice and spoken out about the physical harm that skin care products, which are marketed to young girls, can cause.

After years of drought, the rainy winter has been a welcome change. But it brought its own set of problems, including damage to parks throughout San Mateo County.

Eviction notices in San Francisco have jumped 60 percent since 2011 — especially in the Mission, Sunset, South of Market and Tenderloin neighborhoods. Santa Clara County is one of just 17 counties in ...

Collegiate hockey referees must finance their own equipment and provide their own transportation. They can spend more than two hours driving to a distant ice rink on a Friday night.

Tiny houses are gaining popularity as a way to own a home in the Bay Area’s exorbitant housing market, but there are no California laws defining and regulating them, a situation which has left ...

Dignitá is a San Francisco coffee shop that serves as a job skills training ground for young women survivors emerging from what is often years of trafficking and abuse.

PALO ALTO – After more than two years of complaints about airplane noise generated by new flight paths, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties are working to establish a new forum to address their ...

Santa Clara County’s first charter middle school for students will open in fall 2017 if the county’s board of education approves a petition.