Monday Students from around the Bay Area, including Hillsborough high school students, prepared for the Science Bowl .

Erik Oeverndiek/Daily Journal Need an idea for Valentine's Day? Amber Sequine of Flywheel Press will have antique typewriters set up.

Burlingame High School was briefly locked down this afternoon after a threatening e-mail was sent to the school's office, a school district official said.

Parents of students at Burlingame High School can now pick their sons and daughters up at the football field after an e-mailed bomb threat prompted a lockdown.

Transitional kindergarten is back in Burlingame. In the past few months, the program has gone from state-mandated to the chopping block , leaving school districts unable to properly plan for the upcoming school year.

The city of Burlingame has a downtown that should be replicated elsewhere. It has a high school and large park adjacent to a train station with a long pedestrian-oriented shopping street leading directly to it.

Tom Jung/Daily Journal Five young opera singers thrilled audiences Feb. 5 at An Evening of Operatic Highlights, a presentation of Music at Kohl Mansion in Burlingame.

A Menlo Park man seriously hurt in a drunken driving wreck following a 21st birthday celebration aboard a "party bus" claims the bus company and driver are at fault for his injuries, according to a lawsuit.

Foam cups, plates and to-go containers soon may be banned from use in San Carlos restaurants and carry-out plastic bags from the city's stores.

A 33-year-old East Palo Alto woman accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend with a steak knife this week was arraigned in court Thursday on a charge of murder with a deadly weapon.