Luis Melecio-Zambrano is a California Local News Fellow reporting for The Mercury News in south Santa Clara County. Luis previously wrote for Science News, Science, The Monterey Herald and the Santa ...

A man who said he has been playing the California Lottery since its inception 40 years ago, bought a $1 million-winning ...

A 60-year-old man was arrested after allegedly practicing dentistry without a license out of his Hesperia home.

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When James Gunn launched his search for the next Superman, countless actors threw their hats in the ring, hoping to don the ...

The winds that blew through the Santa Cruz Mountains sounded like a jet engine the night that Sarah Johnston watched a tree ...

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Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune were already visible in the night sky after dusk this month, but Mercury joined them on Feb. 28. While it's common to see a few planets line up in the ...

There's a long history of musicians using silence to protest unfair economic treatment.