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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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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 —…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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,"…
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…