DEAR TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER: My husband received a $1,000 Marriott gift card as a “thank you” for remodeling a bathroom for a family in need. Christopher Elliott, the Travel Troubleshooter We tried to use
With Valentine’s Day still fresh in our minds, the perennial personal finance survey that grabs headlines is about financial infidelity. This year’s version from Bankrate finds that “23 percent of Americans in relationships
By Nathaniel Meyersohn | CNN For decades, bright, playful and oddly-shaped fast-food restaurants dotted the roadside along America’s highways. You’d drive by Howard Johnson’s with its orange roofs and then pass Pizza Hut’s
Northbound I-680 in the East Bay reopened Monday afternoon ahead of schedule following another weekend closure, Caltrans said. The portion of the freeway from Sunol to Pleasanton was originally scheduled to reopen 5
SAN JOSE — A Santa Clara County prosecutor who was once fired amid a series of conflicts with District Attorney Jeff Rosen, which came to include a free-speech lawsuit and a failed political
Most dogs are wary of nail clippers, but there are ways to desensitize them. (Getty Images) DEAR JOAN: Twig is a 5-year-old male mixed breed, weighing 18 pounds. He cannot tolerate having his
Hoover Tower at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group) First, it was gas and groceries. Now, it’s college tuition. Stanford University is blaming inflation
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – Mass vaccination and testing clinics like this one at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds will no longer operate with the end of California’s COVID-19 state of emergency Feb. 28.
Marin homeowners are beginning to take advantage of a new state law that allows them to to split their parcel and build up to four homes on the lot. The California Home Act,
We don’t often think of plastics as having “fingerprints.” But they do. And, as we continue to find microparticles in unexpected places — from local anchovy and seabird guts to the deepest trenches
