Talk about your books being overdue. The residents of Hercules, Calif., had to wait 126 years before they could check out reading material from a library of their own. That's because the city, on San ...

HERCULES — The public library has announced a new schedule with Friday opening hours, starting this week. The addition of the Friday hours was made possible by increased funding from the city and the ...

For more than 100 years, residents of Hercules, Calif., have had to travel to neighboring cities for library services. The town of 24,000 located 25 miles north of San Francisco was one of only two ...