Even on vacation—between coastal drives and indulging my 9-year-old’s joy at Disneyland—I can’t stop thinking about Mayfair. While exploring one of Santa Barbara’s gentrifying neighborhoods, a street ...

After hiring and firing a second superintendent within one year, Alum Rock Union School District chose a new interim leader.

A Santa Clara County hillside polluted for decades by a controversial cement plant and quarry is on the path to restoration.