On Tuesday, the Half Moon Bay City Council met with San Mateo County Sheriff’s Capt. Saul Lopez in closed session, before the regularly scheduled City Council meeting. In doing so, t…

Lost programs. Staff layoffs. School consolidations.

If we needed a reminder about the instability of the California coastline and the potential for danger, we needed only to look south on Friday. A cliff collapsed in the San Diego Cou…

For more than four decades, the Gilroy Garlic Festival has been a community celebration of a pungent bulb that gives southern Santa Clara County its unique flavor. More than 4,000 vo…

The obituary came from a familiar source. Abundant Grace’s Eric DeBode wanted to tell us about the death of Terisa McCormick.

Many on the coast got this ominous text message on Thursday:

Much of what is contained in a San Mateo County civil grand jury report that was released on Tuesday is sobering. It is not, however, surprising to those paying attention to the frag…

On the afternoon of Jan. 15, prosecutors say a Cupertino woman named Chisato Chiyoda took her 6-month-old son to Poplar Beach in Half Moon Bay with the intent of killing herself and …

Nearly 18 years ago, shortly after the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay, opened for business on the majestic bluffs south of downtown, resort General Manager John Berndt wrote an apologet…

Last week, we told the story of the Anderson family — Scott, Catherine, Cole and Grace — and the heart-wrenching decision they made to relocate from the Coastside to Texas. Like so m…

On Friday, San Mateo County Judge George Miram ruled that Steven Slomka’s request for a restraining order against San Mateo County Harbor Commissioner Sabrina Brennan was without mer…

The Half Moon Bay City Council was right to be skeptical of a request to scout locations for license plate-reading cameras. This technology undoubtedly helps law enforcement track do…