Even after nearly 20 years, architect Lara Dutto is still astonished by Lafayette’s Hillside Memorial, a collection of thousands of simple, wooden white crosses across from the city’s BART station.

It’s not every day you hike a trail named after an embattled utility company that many in the Bay Area often criticize. Although it was officially renamed the Stephen E. Abbors Trail, the PG&E Trail ...

Puerto Rican composer, saxophonist and educator Miguel Zenon joins All Things Considered to talk about the inspiration behind ...

Waymo, the self-driving car company has expanded its driverless ride-hailing service to include 27 square miles of California’s famed Silicon Valley.

Waymo, owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, is expanding its service area with a new swath of coverage not connected to ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) recently released new fire hazard severity zone maps for ...

Signs with QR codes are about to flood the streets of downtown San Jose — 92 of them to be exact. The city of San Jose’s ...

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(Doug Duran/Bay Area ... size of the area considered at risk. In 2011, the city had 10,838 acres considered very high hazard, but that number dropped to 1,945 in the latest map, with another ...

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The updated fire maps are being rolled out in four phases. The first two ended on Feb. 25 and covered counties in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay, including Santa Cruz County.