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New to Mountain Biking in the South Bay? Stick to the Fire Roads — and Start at Grant.

A South Bay beginner asked Reddit where to ride without jumps or the risk of clipping a hiker on a blind downhill.

EventsAugust 23, 2026

A Berkeley Gallery Is Selling Art for the Bare 5 Feet the City Ordered Hills Homeowners to Clear

Five miles downhill from the Berkeley neighborhoods where a fire ordinance is fueling a City Council recall, a Shattuck…

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

California Tried to Ban Storage Rent Hikes Every Three Months. The Industry Killed It and Left a Disclosure Form

A Bay Area renter went online this month looking for a storage unit that wouldn't double its price within a year.

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

A Rare Daylight Homicide in El Cerrito, and All Police Have Released Is a Photo of the Car

A man was shot and killed just after noon Sunday in the parking lot of a San Pablo Avenue shopping center in El Cerrito…

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

Two Free Author Talks — With Free Books — at San Mateo County Libraries in September

San Mateo County Libraries hosts novelist Vanessa Hua at San Carlos on Sept.

EventsAugust 23, 2026

Everyone on 880 Thought the EBMUD Plant Was Burning. It Was the Dead Rail Trestle Next Door — Again

Drivers crawling past West Oakland on Interstate 880 Saturday night were sure the region's big sewage plant was on fire.

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

A Reddit Joke, $35 Hats, Then the Mayor's Dais: How Walnut Creek Became "The Nut"

A grassroots nickname for the East Bay suburb of roughly 70,000 traveled from an October 2025 Reddit thread to $35 hats…

CultureAugust 23, 2026

Seven Months to Melbourne: George Kittle's Achilles and the New Math of Coming Back

In July I wrote about the 49ers' cursed summer — the way a roster can come apart all at once.

SportsAugust 23, 2026

DeMaio Asks the Federal DOJ to Kill an Oakland Democrat's Doxxing Law That Won't Take Effect Until 2027

A San Diego Republican is asking the Trump administration's Justice Department to block a California privacy law that…

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

The Anti‑Surveillance Fight Reached the Doorstep of the Billionaire Who Funds It

A youth climate group skipped City Hall and marched instead to a private address in San Francisco — the home of Ripple…

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

The Receipt Was Real. It Just Wasn't for What the Segment Was Selling.

Two of this week's tech stories arrived pre-packaged by sympathetic coverage — a CBS segment, an SF Standard profile.

TechAugust 23, 2026

Petaluma's Flock Rescue Is the ALPR Everyone Agrees On — Which Is Exactly Why It Sidesteps the Fight

A Petaluma man with memory problems drove off on Aug.

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

On Stockton Street, Streetwear Moves Into the Old Luxury Boxes: BAPE Opens at 216, Kith Files at 100

A BAPE flagship opened in the former Dior Men's space at 216 Stockton, while a July 29 city permit at 100 Stockton —…

CultureAugust 23, 2026

A Sheriff's‑Watchdog Scandal Became the Sales Pitch for Prop F — Lurie's At‑Will Firing Power

Mayor Daniel Lurie's tech-funded ballot committee spent the weekend arguing that disturbing allegations against a San…

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

A Stolen Wedding Medallion Outside a San Jose Costco Fits a Jewelry‑Swap Pattern Police Have Chased for Years

The 18-karat gold medallion a priest gave an 86-year-old San Jose man at his wedding more than 50 years ago disappeared…

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

San Mateo Is Closing B Street for Two Free Block Parties This Month

Downtown San Mateo shuts B Street to cars for two free live-music evenings — Thursday, Sept.

EventsAugust 23, 2026

SF Playhouse's VC Thriller 'R.O.I.' Runs Through Sept. 5 — and the $41 Listing Is Wrong

Aaron Loeb's Silicon Valley drama about a venture capitalist's career-defining, ethically fraught bet plays its U.S.

EventsAugust 23, 2026

The 40‑Man Cage: How a Looming Lockout Warps the Giants' Prospect Math

For a century, a promotion to the 40-man roster has been the good news of a young player's life — the paper that says…

SportsAugust 23, 2026

Bi‑Rite Files Its First Liquor and Off‑Sale Applications for the Outer Richmond

Bi-Rite's planned fourth San Francisco store took its first concrete civic step Aug.

FoodAugust 23, 2026

Alto 88 Files for a Full‑Liquor License Atop The Spear on the Waterfront

A California ABC application taken August 21 names the rooftop restaurant coming to Presidio Bay's "office resort" at…

FoodAugust 23, 2026

The mRNA Cancer Vaccine Just Cleared a Phase 3 Trial on a Press Release With No Numbers — and UCSF Is Deep in the Same Science

Merck and Moderna say their personalized mRNA vaccine has become the first of its kind to slow melanoma's return in a…

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

Antioch Wakes Up First: In One East County ZIP, Half the Workforce Beats 7 a.m.

Nowhere in the nine-county Bay Area does a neighborhood start its workday earlier than the stretch of Antioch inside…

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

Berkeley Won the Right to Clear Its Biggest Camp 'In Short Order.' The Clock Runs Out Aug. 27.

A federal judge has cleared Berkeley to close the long-entrenched Eighth and Harrison encampment "in short order,"…

PoliticsAugust 23, 2026

A Reuse Hub in Petaluma, and a Repair‑Fair Circuit Rolling Through Marin This Fall

The Reuse Alliance runs a permanent Reuse Hub in Petaluma and free traveling Repair Fairs booked through January across…

CultureAugust 23, 2026