1+ day, 30+ min ago   (761+ words) (Bloomberg) — Rising bond yields and soaring oil prices have many Wall Street pros looking back a few decades to the volatile period before the dot-com crash. But that doesn’t mean they’re encouraging investors to dump their stocks. “The stock market…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (196+ words) East Bay Times San Francisco mayor continues momentum, breaking ground with developers on a long-stalled project at Candlestick Point to build 7,200 homes, a hotel, parks, shops and restaurants on former stadium site. Driven by rising world oil prices amid the…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1074+ words) Just weeks before Mark Bingham became a hero aboard United Flight 93, he sent an email to his teammates on the San Francisco Fog rugby team. The first gay rugby team in California — the fourth in the world — had just been…...

4+ day, 33+ min ago   (614+ words) By GLENN GAMBOA, AP Business Writer Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies America, a bipartisan campaign founded by philanthropists Olivia and Tom Walton, announced a $100 million pledge Thursday to make giving birth in the United States safer. The five-year commitment aims to…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (481+ words) If people need another reason to understand why Dolly Parton was so beloved in American culture, the entertainer, who died Aug. 25 at age 80, was known for being genuinely kind and generous to the people who worked for her. That includes…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (702+ words) The state budget package passed Sept. 1 includes $400,000 in funding for the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) to complete stock pond restoration projects across its grazed grasslands. To reduce the risk of wildfires across more than 87,000 acres, the park district…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1153+ words) By Christine Mai-Duc | KFF Health News By the time Democrat Xavier Becerra left Washington, D.C., more Americans than ever had health insurance, owing partly to his work over the years to pass, defend, and expand the Affordable Care Act. It’s an…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (536+ words) A century ago, on Sept. 15, 1926, the Berkeley Daily Gazette published an editorial about the prospects for a Civic Center block in downtown Berkeley. “Some day — no one can say when — the city of Berkeley will purchase for a civic center…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (127+ words) East Bay Times 51-year-old engineer who started at Apple in 2001 as a product designer and helped oversee work on the iPad, iPods and the Apple Watch becomes CEO of the Cupertino tech giant, succeeding Tim Cook. PG&E CEO loses…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (541+ words) When Heath Rocha was offered the job as as interim superintendent for the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District, he said the decision was easy. But when he was given the chance to take over the position permanently, it came…...