COVID compliance team plans to visit San Mateo Co. businesses Monday

Pacifica Beach Yoga in San Mateo County promotes hot yoga on its window front. In recent weeks, it's become a hotbed of controversy with numerous complaints of indoor operations going on for months.

Menlo Park restauranteur cries foul over street’s reopening

The City of Menlo Park is reopening part of its main drag, Santa Cruz Avenue, to traffic after closing the street for outdoor dining and shopping. The owner of Roma’s restaurant calls the move unfair and dangerous.

Scott Peterson murder convictions to be re-examined in county superior court

Scott Peterson, whose death penalty was overturned in August for the 2005 murder conviction of his pregant wife, is now getting his case sent back to San Mateo County Superior Court to be re-examined. 

2,350 pound pumpkin wins annual weigh-off contest in Half Moon Bay

Travis Gienger's 35-hour drive from Minnesota to Half Moon Bay's 47th Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off paid off on Monday.

San Bruno police release images of suspected package thief

San Bruno police sought help from the public Friday to identify two suspects who allegedly stole a package from a residence near the corner of Tulare and Amador drives.

Facebook removes fake accounts linked to conservative group

The platform also permanently banned an Arizona-based digital communications firm that it said was behind the fake accounts.

Pet store employee charged with fracturing dog's skull and neck pleads no contest

A 21-year-old employee of a Daly City pet store pleaded no contest Monday to felony animal abuse for slamming a dog on a concrete floor in 2019, fracturing its skull and neck, San Mateo County prosecutors said.

SFPD: 35-year-old man dies after SOMA attack

A 35-year-old man has died, a day after an early morning attack in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood over the weekend, authorities said.

Court vacates EPA determination regarding Redwood City's salt ponds

A federal judge determined that the EPA ignored its own interpretative regulations and misinterpreted relevant case law.

Police activity forces closure of Redwood City shopping center

Redwood City police have closed the Sequoia Station shopping center on El Camino Real as they conduct a police investigation.

San Mateo County leader says 'wear your damn mask’ after Trump's Covid diagnosis

Never one to mince words, San Mateo County Supervisor David J. Canepa said Friday in a statement that everyone needs to wear a mask when out in public and the nation's leader is no exemption.