Wesley Severson

The duo behind Port Bar, arguably Oakland’s most popular queer bar, is about to open another new nightlife spot just up the road.

There’s a new weekly night market event in downtown San Jose that is bringing together artists, craft and antique vendors, music, food trucks, and a beer garden, all at a funky old grain warehouse that’s been transformed into a rustic yet modern event space.

Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s company CloudKitchens is getting much closer to opening its long-awaited ghost kitchen "food hall" inside the Odd Fellows Building in downtown San Jose at 82 E. Santa Clara Street.

After being closed for several years, the iconic Los Gatos roadhouse, The Cats, is finally reopening its doors with a new owner and new chefs.

In one of the most surprising developments in San Francisco’s post-pandemic retail apocalypse, Nordstrom now says it will close its giant, 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre, open since 1988.

The Trader Joe’s store on College Avenue in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland has become the grocery store chain’s first California store to unionize.

A Korean street-food chain created by celebrity chef Baek Jong-won has just opened its fourth U.S. location in Oakland, which is its first Northern California outpost.

Google and the mayor of San Jose say the tech giant’s plans to build an 80-acre mixed-use project called Downtown West are moving forward and are not on hold, as reported recently by CNBC.

San Jose is looking into creating a network of driverless robot shuttles to carry passengers between San Jose Mineta International Airport and Diridon Station.

The Thomas Fallon statue in San Jose that has been stirring up controversy for well over 30 years is now being torn down.

Focusing on a cohesive plan to bolster an entertainment district in San Jose could be the key to creating a more vibrant downtown area that has been battered by the pandemic and is still struggling to recover.

Thanks to all the rain we had this winter, super blooms in the South Bay have created eruptions of color all over the hills, and with the weather now warming up, people are flocking to the trails to get a glimpse of this rare phenomenon.

A beloved spot where Mexican food fans celebrated Taco Tuesday every week for the past 20 years appears to be making a comeback in an adjacent neighborhood.

Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, who’s been entrenched in South Bay politics since the late 1990s, could soon be heading to San Diego to become that county's chief administrator.

A Mexican cantina in Sausalito with fine dining flair and a celebrity chef backing is about to open a new location in San Jose with even more star power.

An already established bakery is making its new storefront debut this week in the Mission District.

If you love pasta, you’ll be elated over a new shop coming to Inner Richmond that will eventually become a mini pasta factory, a retail pasta and pasta-making supply shop, and a restaurant.

Just over two months after becoming Mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan has put forward his first budget plan that has a major focus on public safety, homelessness, housing, and blight.

There are pizza options galore in Berkeley, and there is about to be one more option that is sure to become a hit.

San Francisco’s only home beer-brewing supply store has closed.

A popular Bay Area-based ramen chain that has expanded well beyond California has just opened a new location in Silicon Valley.

Shake Shack burger joints keep popping up all over the Bay Area, and now the East Bay is seeing its second Shake Shack to open in two weeks.

The 16th largest bank in the U.S. and one of the key lending partners to countless Bay Area tech startups has failed. Silicon Valley Bank, which is responsible for $210 billion in assets, collapsed on Friday, sending shockwaves across the U.S. economy. It is being reported as the biggest banking collapse since the fall of Washington Mutual in 2008.

There’s now one less option to grab Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay Biscuits in the South Bay. One of the San Jose locations of the iconic seafood chain has closed after nearly 40 years in business.

There’s a new Mexican restaurant in the Marina that features breakfast, lunch, and dinner dishes traditional to the Yucatan Peninsula. Las Mestizas has taken over the space formerly occupied by Sushi In at 2280 Chestnut Street.