Tucked away in the bustling city of Fremont sits The Country Way, a breakfast sanctuary that has California residents willingly crossing county lines just for a taste of their legendary French toast.

Half Price Books is closing in downtown Berkeley after 20 years, leaving a hole in the hearts of locals, college students and lovers of physical media .

San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose are dealing with similar problems of vacant offices and homelessness, but one of them has ...