Emmitsburg is home to the National Fire Academy, effectively the war college for U.S. firefighters. The Trump ...

More students are living in housing at California's public colleges and universities than they were 20 years ago.

The prison on a forbidding island off San Francisco was operated at a prohibitive cost. Now, President Trump says it's time ...

President Donald Trump announced yesterday (Sunday) he is directing federal authorities to reopen the famous prison at ...

There's a song written by the jazz singer Billy Eckstine with Sid Kuller called "Blues, the Mother of Sin" that has always been instructive to how I think about the blues and its singular dogma. By ...

Plumes of black smoke billowing from a fire at the Benicia Valero Refinery had dissipated by mid-morning on Monday and fire ...

Attorneys general from 17 states and D.C. are challenging an executive order Trump signed on his first day in office pausing ...

Dozens of pro-Palestinian activists gathered earlier today (Monday) on the streets outside of the Israeli consulate in San ...

San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties have signed onto yet another lawsuit against the administration of President Donald ...

In a rare rebuke, more than a dozen former workers of the powerful data-mining and surveillance company say the firm's work ...

Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful ...

Time to roll out your picnic blanket and unfold those lawn chairs: A meteor shower is set to streak across the (very) early ...