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Sunday’s big game is happening in Silicon Valley’s backyard, and major players like PayPal and Amazon plan to make a splash with new ads.

U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs in January, missing estimates. The jobless rate ticked down from 5 percent in December.

Before the big game kicks off, the Bay Area has plenty of events and concerts to keep visitors busy.

The action by Los Angeles prosecutors Tuesday coincides with a lawsuit filed by the state’s attorney general over an ongoing problem.

A former employee said the company’s performance ranking system was manipulated to justify firing hundreds of people.

Releasing a sequel to a proven summer favorite in the dead of winter was a risk, but “Kung Fu Panda 3­” delivered.

Lyft has reached a deal with some drivers who say they were mislabeled as independent contractors. But some say the broader question remains unsettled.

Regulators maintain a policy that makes rooftop solar affordable by letting homeowners sell electricity back to their utility.

The average resale price is well over $5,200, and it could wind up being one of the highest of all time.

In a letter this week, Theranos was given 10 days to correct issues at its Newark, California, facility.

"I don’t see diversity in film in the world at all anymore," the veteran African-American actor said in an interview.

The test track, to be built near the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, would serve as a proving ground for the pod prototypes.

Major tech firms are often based in pricey white suburbs that can alienate some minority job seekers, a black ex-Googler notes.

A move to college dorms could save L.A. 2024 more than $1 billion.

Mario Woods was shot by multiple police officers in December.

Two people face charges of tampering with government records after secretly recording videos inside a Planned Parenthood clinic.

The family of a California man killed by police claims there was no justification for the shooting.

Three inmates who fled from an Orange County jail may have had inside help, a security consultant said Monday.

Amid calls for a boycott of the awards ceremony, a group of leading civil rights organizations has requested meetings with studios.

The Academy Awards are designed to honor not the most popular film performances but the best ones. Even so, some of the choices can be pretty obscure.

A manhunt is underway for three inmates who cut their way out of an Orange County, California, jail.