A growing number of alarming complaints from homeowners, housing advocates and real estate professionals say some of the nations largest banks are ill equipped to handle the spike in mortgage issues driven by the real estate collapse.

Just three years after opening his first Latino food market in Santa Rosas Roseland neighborhood, Juan Gamino has expanded a few miles north. At 31, Gamino has quickly become a major player in a "niche market" that is not so niche anymore.

Wine Country Baseball is in its first year and as columnist Bob Padecky writes, the first year is for laying the foundation. But after only the first month of play, already $7,000 has been raised for local charities through ticket sales.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Adam Rosales, Kevin Kouzmanoff and Jack Cust each went deep, and Vin Mazzaro pitched into the eighth inning to help the As beat the Kansas City Royals, 9-6, on Sunday and finish a three-game sweep.

A busy stretch of westbound Interstate 580 in Oakland is shut down this morning after a motorist clad in body armor and armed with three weapons opened fire on California Highway Patrol officers who had pulled him over, prompting them to return fire and...

A man who was shot and killed on Saturday morning by Oakland and BART police officers after charging against them with knives in each hand was identified as 48-year-old Oakland resident Fred Collins. Collins was shot multiple times after leading five officers...

The tea party is not a racist group, says Vice President Joe Biden, though he believes that some of those involved in the movement have expressed racist views. Very conservative, very different views on government and a whole lot of things, Biden said...

Palm Springs has been a welcoming oasis for gays and lesbians ever since the days of Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter. But new frictions have arisen between the citys Police Department and its sizable gay population - estimated to be as high as 30 to 40 percent -...

In a nail-biting day across the Gulf Coast, engineers struggled to make sense of puzzling pressure readings from the bottom of the sea Friday to determine whether BPs capped oil well was holding tight. Halfway through a critical 48-hour window, the signs...

The federal estate tax would be revived, but at a reduced rate, under a plan being pushed by two senators, a Democrat and a Republican. Democrat Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona hope to attach the new estate tax to a small...