The state budget crunch and workers furloughs mean its harder than ever to book an appointment to take your drivers license road test. The key: Get online immediately after midnight or head out of town.

Michelle Pendleton loves to ring one for The Salvation Armys Red Kettle campaign and has helped enlist and organize dozens of volunteers to do the same.

BlackBerry users in North America faced delays in receiving e-mail on their devices Thursday.

After almost six years of labor organizing, health care workers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital begin voting today on whether or not they should be represented by a union.

Tiger Woods has changed a lot of things about golf for the better, say Sonoma County golfing pros, but the impact his current personal problems will have on the PGA Tour, is causing concern throughout the sport.

Mendocino County authorities were still awaiting forensic confirmation Thursday before they released the name of a man found dead inside the charred wreckage of a Fort Bragg home a day earlier.

Santa Rosa Police are planning a DUI checkpoint Saturday night in hopes of keeping holiday revelers off the streets as Christmas nears.

A Senate panel has approved the nomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to run the nations central bank for another four years.

A tracking firm says the housing market in the San Francisco Bay Area appears to be stabilizing, with fewer foreclosures and more activity in pricier areas than a year ago.

Former top draft pick JaMarcus Russell cant even get the next Raiders start over third-stringer Charlie Frye. Russell has been an unmitigated disaster, and the Raiders need to start over -- if they can.

A father of four died early Thursday in a house fire in Oaklands Fruitvale district, despite his teenage sons efforts to save him and his wifes attempt to put out the fire with a garden hose. Lyndon Balagot, 45, died after the fire broke out in the back...

The 2010 California governors race, already an entertaining reality show, is exhibiting signs of morphing into an expensive, combative new series - Battle of the Super Rich. Republican state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner ensured as much this week...

Mayor Gavin Newsom struck a deal Wednesday with the U.S. Navy to transfer Treasure Island to San Francisco for a $55 million guaranteed payment over several years. Additional considerations could make the package worth more than $105 million to the federal...

San Franciscos school superintendent has laid down the law when it comes to the use of district-issued credit cards by school board members, issuing an edict that prohibits spending on personal items and limits gratuities to 15 percent. The new policy,...

One rotten thing after another has hit Trumaine Pritchard. Her mother died of cancer in 2006, followed by her father nine months later, again cancer. The next year, on Prichards 48th birthday, she was diagnosed with lymphoma. She underwent extensive...