Ron Childress

Eden Housing given extra year to negotiate with city

Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee has experienced the housing bust first-hand after short selling his dream home a few months after taking office.

Santa Clara County won permission to move and dispose of human remains from a forgotten pauper's grave unearthed during construction work. County officials invited those who believe their relatives are among the buried to provide identifying information, but said unidentified and unclaimed remains may be cremated.

MARTINEZ -- Martinez finally flipped the historic downtown building city leaders bought seven years ago. The City Council on Wednesday sold 630 Court St.

Two regional agencies select for environmental analysis an air-pollution reduction strategy to concentrate new jobs and housing along transportation corridors. Critics on the right denounced regional planning while those on the left sought more public investment in housing and transit for the poor.

Apple plans to power its main U.S. data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms.

The Bay Area's housing market continued to rebound in April, turning in the strongest performance for that month in six years, a real estate information service reported Thursday.

The owners of a Ninth Street home in Berkeley may have to vacate it for a year and pay fines if they don't put a stop to the crime, drug dealing, fighting, loud music and fireworks that have swirled about the home for the past 30 years.

Santa Clara County officials say they have dug up 15 pine coffins from a pauper s cemetery dating back more than 100 years that was discovered in February by construction crews at Valley Medical Center.

City approves incentives to persuade developers to build downtown residences

Oakland officials are expanding efforts to cut down on blighted homes by going after properties in the earliest stages of foreclosure.

The urban food justice nonprofit City Slicker Farms is accepting bids from qualified businesses to provide professional services for the design, community process and construction management of the West Oakland farm and park project in West Oakland.

Every step in the foreclosure process -- from default notices to homes seized by banks -- dropped across the Bay Area in April.

MARTINEZ -- After years of struggling to find a developer with the money to turn a historic building into a restaurant, city leaders are poised to ink a deal they hope will spark a downtown revival.

Real estate agents, residential care facilities owners obtained $20 million in fraudulent loans to buy businesses.