Costumed critters and kids descend on the San Francisco Zoo through 3 p.m., with a noon contest judging four categories.

CSEE's new elementary pep band made its debut at a flag-football homecoming — and it's already booked for the Turkey Bowl.

Kids can climb into real excavators at Whitmore Fairgrounds, with proceeds backing Tyrell’s Angels and Aloha from Whitmore.

Jasiah flips onto his beanbag like a superhero. He's one of thousands of Massachusetts kids waiting for adoption.

Penny the foster dog plays Bruiser in Orchard Park's school musical — and a teacher is covering her adoption fee.

Two $500,000 designs are on the table, but the city has only $190,000 banked so far.

Julian Champagnie and the Spurs Coyote traded jerseys for fairy-tale costumes, handing out candy room-to-room at Methodist Children's Hospital.

The sensory-play spot known for messy toddler fun now has a second home at 2096 Boston Post Road.

Six schoolyards are already converted from asphalt to turf, with eight more fields coming to SF campuses through 2027 — all free to the schools.

About 200 staffers joined UI Health's Halloween parade Friday, dressing up five-day-old NICU babies in hand-sewn costumes.

Faith, 14, sings in choir and wants to be a crime scene detective — now she just needs a family to call her own.

A Jefferson Parish mother says her daughter went without interpreters at John Ehret before transferring to the Louisiana School for the Deaf.

ASTEC Charter Schools left Shepherd Mall for a new 157,000-square-foot building — and students say it changed how they see themselves.