San Mateo News

Ragazzi Continuo, the Ragazzi Boys Chorus alumni, had their concert last week, and now it's the turn of the current Ragazzi to celebrate the organization's 25th anniversary .

Hockey moms have showed up in force at City Council meetings and at the Bridgepointe Shopping Center in recent weeks in an effort to save the Ice Center of San Mateo from imminent closure.

Bill Silverfarb/Daily Journal San Mateo County sheriff's deputies Sal Zuno and Brandon Hensel are transit officers for Caltrain who saved a suicidal man's life last week.

Finally. Finally, the prominent former child psychiatrist William Hamilton Ayres saw fit to end the circus his legal battle over child molestation charges had become.

A person who found a man's phone offered to sell it back at an unknown address in San Mateo before 4:36 p.m. Thursday, May 15.

A committee that will review the boundaries of San Mateo County's supervisorial districts and possibly recommend changes will hold its first meeting June 6 in San Mateo.

A series of gun-related crimes over the weekend that culminated with the the death of 16-year-old boy has prompted East Palo Alto police chief Ron Davis to declare a "crime emergency." One person has been killed and eight shot within the past two weeks.

Two Sicilians: Two of the chefs involved with Sapore Italiano in Burlingame have taken over a former San Mateo pizzeria and transformed it into the white-tablecoth Sole Ristorante Italiano.

When Valve let up to 25 hardware development staff go in February , Jeri Ellsworth was one of them, and she was working on a pair of 3D augmented-reality glasses at the time called Cast AR.

An artist's real-time interpretation of NASA science chief John Grunsfeld's presentation at Maker Faire Bay Area on May 18, 2013.

Tens of thousands of people descended on the San Mateo County Fairgrounds on Saturday for the eighth annual Maker Faire, the enormously popular Do-It-Yourself festival that features everything from bicycle-powered sculptures to Tesla coils to stilt walkers.

The Bay Area posted sturdy job gains in April, and the region now has recaptured 80 percent of the jobs it lost during the recession, an analysis of a state government report released Friday shows.

It was a fantastic Bike to Work Day this year! Counts of people on bikes in both Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties were up this year: counts at 80 Energizer Stations in Santa Clara showed a 19% increase in butts on bikes on Thursday morning, while at the 36 Energizer Stations organized by our friends at Commute.org in San Mateo County, cycle ... (more)

On Saturday, May 25th, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Mendocino County Museum will host the area's first-ever Mini Maker Faire on its grounds.

After years of legal wrangling, Dr. William Hamilton Ayres, an 81-year-old former San Mateo psychiatrist accused of molesting boys during examinations in the 1990s, Thursday admitted to the charges against him.

The new 155-unit complex known as 888 San Mateo Apartments is expected to be completed by the end of the year, and the union workers who are building the project will be honored at a special worker appreciation event today as the project starts to take shape.

Construction of new U.S. homes dropped in April as far fewer apartments were put up, according to government data released Thursday that nonetheless signal rebounding activity in the building sector.

Your ideas and the ideas of your neighbors will add to the planning process for various City projects and efforts.

SAN MATEO, Calif. YouTube launched a pilot program last week for "a small group of partners" that will offer paid channels on YouTube with subscription fees starting at 99 cents per month.

Paul Martins American Grill is opening a new location in the Hillsdale Mall, in San Mateo.