We urge you to vote for Measure I, the Cabrillo Unified School District’s $150 parcel tax, simply because the alternative is unthinkable. It’s as simple as that. It’s also absurdly c…

More than a decade ago, the city of Half Moon Bay effectively purchased the 24-acre plot of land east of Highway 1 below Half Moon Bay High School that is known as Beachwood. At the …

If you are black and in San Mateo County, you are eight times more likely to be arrested than your white neighbor. For a variety of complex reasons, our county is second only to San …

The Cabrillo Unified School District is in the midst of a terrible reckoning as it seeks to bail out enough water to keep its financial ship from going completely under. That was mad…

Mavericks, the wave, will continue. Mavericks, the golden ticket, could be underwater for a while if not forever. Whether you consider the end of the profit motive there to be a good…

We were very sorry to hear that Jessica Markbreiter has left her position as certified athletic trainer for Half Moon Bay High School and the Cabrillo Unified School District. She wa…

Say you were to crash your car on the way to work tomorrow morning. Perhaps you suffer some injury. Unbeknown to you, emergency dispatchers might call for an ambulance — even if your…

Last week, in an email to constituents, Half Moon Bay City Councilman Adam Eisen wrote:

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…