For the true-crime-loving public, the Innocence Project and Scott Peterson occupy opposite ends of the moral spectrum.

Police say the suspects are linked to 17 thefts totaling more than $15,000 in stolen merchandise from stores in neighborhoods ...

San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus, who serves one of the wealthiest communities in the country, has faced calls for her removal since an explosive November report from a retired judge found ...

A San Leandro man was arrested Wednesday in San Francisco following a multi-county vehicle pursuit tied to a string of thefts and drug offenses, San Mateo police said.

A strike that left garbage piling up across Bay Area municipalities since July 8 has been ended, the president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors announced Friday night.

Voters earlier this year gave the county Board of Supervisors the power to remove Corpus from office if she violated the law ...

The garbage strike affecting the Bay Area appears to be over. The waste management company says a tentative agreement has ...

San Mateo County’s Private Defender Program, which appoints attorneys to assist people who cannot afford them, has recently ...

An open government advocacy group is threatening to sue San Mateo County, which is preparing to discuss firing its elected ...

(Read the First Amendment Coalition’s letter to the county.) The First Amendment Coalition is threatening to sue the San ...