For anyone who has stood freezing in an endless lift line at a ski resort, or flinched as some out-of-control “rad Brad” whooshes by like a Red Bull-and-vodka-fueled missile, the allure of backcountry skiing needs… 

Santa Clara County law enforcement officials are preparing to combat sex trafficking ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. After the Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, the Santa Clara County district attorney’s… 

Geoff Davis doesn’t want his employees to have to rely on tips. The acclaimed chef who worked in restaurants and cocktail bars across the Bay Area and wine country before opening the Oakland soul food… 

Police in Orange County have issued a warning about a game called “senior assassin” in which high school students shoot one another with water guns and gel blasters that can sometimes resemble real firearms. Teenage… 

Most of the victims of California’s deadliest avalanche in modern history were part of a tight-knit circle — a group of moms who lived across Northern California and in Idaho and liked to meet up… 

An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in a rural area of Antelope Valley on Monday morning. A…