Livermore stands to gain nearly $2 million now that at least one battle in a long legal war between municipalities over a sales tax relocation scheme appears to have ended in the city's favor, officials say.

Facing the first layoff of officers in city history, San Jose police on Friday offered to slash their pay by 10 percent for a year in a bid to save the jobs of dozens of cops.

A Silicon Valley immigration rights group is hosting its fifth annual march on Sunday, where supporters will demand that workers have the right to unionize and decry the inhumane treatment of immigrants.

The city planning commission on Tuesday will vote on a request to build a 15850-square-foot Walgreens Pharmacy on the site of the existing Hollywood Video and Tire Mart buildings at First and South P streets.

**FILE** Jeanine Harms is shown in this undated photo released by the Los Gatos, Calif., Police Department. Los Gatos Police Chief Scott Seaman announced, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004 the arrest of Maurice Xavier Nasmeh in connection with ...

Some interesting Apple news this week from AppleInsider revolves around Apple's acquisition of the iCloud domain name. Apparently, according to sources, Apple paid Sweden-based company Xcerion an estimated $4.5 billion for the domain.

The Kings Mountain Vineyard in Woodside ,Calif., photographed on Wednesday, April 27, 2011. The local vineyard produces about 400 cases of wine per season.

WALNUT CREEK -- A fire Friday evening severely damaged four apartments on Roxie Lane, leaving nine people homeless and two pet dogs missing, the Contra Costa Fire District said.

(04-29) 18:40 PDT San Francisco -- A teenage girl who said she was accosted by an older man on a Muni bus this afternoon fought him off with pepper spray but also spritzed two other passengers and the driver with the liquid irritant, San Francisco ...

AP SAN JOSE, Calif.—San Jose police officers are offering to take a pay cut as part of a deal to avoid laying off as many as 250 officers.

BELMONT -- Cars that drop you off at the movies, tootle merrily off to park themselves in a nearby parking garage and pick you up when summoned by cell phone aren't just a Jetsonesque fantasy any more, but examples of the technology that ...

ANTIOCH -- On the last day of March, Arieanna Rivers sat atop an air-conditioning unit in front of her apartment, munching on a sandwich with her sister, cousin and 2-year-old daughter.

AP REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—A 20-year-old Northern California will likely end up spending most of his life in prison for the gang-related shooting of a Redwood City man.

A new "world market" will soon fill the old Circuit City space in San Jose's Eastridge Mall. The Fresco World Market will move into the 34533-square-foot space at the southeast corner of the mall this summer, the store announced.

AP SANTA CLARA, Calif.—The San Francisco 49ers have taken defensive back Chris Culliver from South Carolina in the third round of the NFL draft.

After the fatal mauling of 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. of San Jose, Andrew Lloyd's company Litigation Media Group put together a one-minute animated re-enactment that helped lead to a 2009 confidential settlement.