Every Friday this December, a group of recent college graduates are trading textbooks for tinsel. Together, they’ve launched the Fix-It Friday Elves, a volunteer effort to decorate the homes of ...

My snooze took a backseat over the holidays but with these simple tips you can enjoy better sleep, beat the Sunday Scaries ...

Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners.com; to her email, [email protected]; ...

Funding for much of the federal government runs out Jan. 30. If Congress doesn't approve a deal by then, it could lead to a ...

The Republican Congress headed home for the holidays Thursday without doing anything about health insurance costs set to skyrocket for more than 20 million Americans when Affordable Care Act tax ...

Nef and I are a “mixed-status couple.” One of us is a U.S. citizen, and the other is a non-citizen who could potentially be ...

It always starts the same way: a forgotten gift, the string lights that suddenly stop working, or a missing roasting pan right before guests arrive. But that’s where Ace Hardware’s “Ready in 15” ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re enacting patterns that belonged to another situation and no longer fit. This isn’t ...

Thanks to the widely adopted Gregorian calendar, most people have marked the new year on Jan. 1 for centuries. But with so many other calendar systems — such as the Chinese, Islamic or Hebrew calendar ...

People spend their hard-earned money on outdoor flags only to have the hems fray in a short time from weather. If you turn the hem over and restitch on a sewing machine, the edges will not become ...

Last Thursday was the final day Congress met until early January. And despite health care dominating the conversation on Capitol Hill since late summer and through the autumn, Congress failed to ...

To read the Mercury News endorsement and commentaries by the two runoff candidates for Santa Clara County assessor, click here. In the middle of a historic budget crisis, Santa Clara County is being ...