Richmond agreed to pay a $336,000 fine for dumping inadequately processed wastewater into the San Francisco Bay more than 100 times for a period of about 17 months.

I set out to find people with whom I could discuss my notion that a recognizable artistic regionalism had at last emerged ...

Dalloway,” or even “To the Lighthouse.” In fact, it comes from “Unknown Man No. 89,” a 1977 novel by Elmore Leonard. The man ...

The United Nations will mark its 80th anniversary this month but there’s little to celebrate. Its clout on the world stage is ...

I was looking for a topic for this column last week when it occurred to me that I had been staring it in the face, in the news and in the Facebook feed that, like for many, my days begin and end with.

Here is a look at some of the cases already argued and decided and still to be decided by the justices. The court also has ...

“For years, we were fighting against ‘I’ll sleep when I’m dead,’ ” Aric Prather, the director of the behavioral-sleep-medicine research program at UC San Francisco, told me. “Now the messaging that ...

I ran four miles every day, did breathing exercises, listened to a meditation tape a friend gave me. Useless. I finally caved and saw my general practitioner, who prescribed Ambien, telling me to feel ...

Scientists in Switzerland are freezing human poop in a "doomsday" Microbiota Vault to preserve vital gut microbes for future ...

The increase is 8% less than Recology first proposed — but still too high for those who spoke out at Wednesday's meeting.