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The arrest of 14 individuals charged with circumventing airport security to operate a nationwide drug trafficking organization has brought safety at America’s airports into serious question.

On Thursday, the California State Senate passed Senate Bill 277, which would eliminate California parents’ ability to opt out of mandatory vaccines for their school children for reasons of “personal belief.” The vote was 25 in favor and 10 against.

Hillary Clinton continues to dodge direct media questions as she jets off for her first official fundraising trip to the Bay Area since quietly making her campaign for President official.

The tables have turned on high-paid tech workers in Silicon Valley, where housing prices have gone so far up that it is no longer just the average worker that can’t afford to live there. The very same six-figure-income techies who

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was in California’s Bay Area Wednesday and Thursday making his potential pre-presidential fundraising rounds.

About 11.3 percent of Bay Area residents are living at or below the poverty level, according to a Joint Venture Silicon Valley Institute analysis entitled, “Poverty in the Bay Area.” Despite low unemployment in Santa Clara County, the heart of the Silicon

The California State Assembly transportation committee voted unanimously last week to name a San Francisco tunnel after the late Robin Williams.

A new Silicon Valley dating app called “Luxy” is attempting to refute the old adage “money can’t buy love.” The app requires users to have at least a six-figure salary and even matches users based on their favorite high-end designers.

A Costco location in Gilroy, California is one of the latest sites exposed to the measles outbreak that began at Disneyland in mid-December. A measles-infected shopper visited the store while contagious, according to a Santa Clara County health official and NBC News Bay Area.

On Tuesday, the Pacific Ocean breached a seawall at San Francisco’s Embarcadero, causing minor flooding and inconveniencing those traveling along the shoreline. Rising along with the tide was discussion over the provocative global warming-climate change debate.

One group of “Black Lives Matter” protesters in the San Francisco Bay area has summarily dismissed efforts by three regional police unions to initiate “constructive dialogue.” Responding to Wednesday’s call from the Oakland Police Officers Association and police unions in

California’s recent rainstorms have brought fossils, several of which are believed to be millions of years old, ashore in the Bay Area and along the rest of Pacific coast. Among the rarer fossil finds this week was the tooth of