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Regions Steered California's Housing Toward Low‑Car Cities. The Cities Didn't Follow Through.
California is counting on new housing to help wean drivers off their cars — but a new UC Berkeley and UCLA study finds…
Caltrans Shielded Its Own Crews With Concrete on a $175M Oakland Project. An Advocate Says the Public Got Sharrows.
At the corner of Jackson and 5th in Oakland, Caltrans has bolted together concrete pedestals, a pole and Jersey…
The Tenderloin Death SFPD Labeled '#26‑100' Was Not San Francisco's 100th Homicide
When a man attacked on Jones Street in July died in a hospital on Aug.
Cal Academy Laid Off 53 People in April. In August, Its Planetarium Becomes a Spotify Launchpad.
Four months after laying off 53 employees to close a projected $8 million deficit, the California Academy of Sciences…
BART Just Undid Its Shorter‑Train Bet — Full‑Length Trains and a New Schedule Start Today
Nearly three years after BART shrank its trains to run them more often, the agency is putting the long ones back…
Caltrans' Own Numbers Undercut the I‑580 Truck Ban Fight: Lifting It Barely Moves Cancer Risk
A long-awaited Caltrans study finds that ending Oakland's 70-year ban on big rigs along Interstate 580 would reroute…
Five San Jose Schools Are Gone. This Month, Their Students Started Over Somewhere Else.
When San Jose Unified opened its doors on Aug.
California Blew the 988 Deadline Written Into Miles Hall's Own Law — and Blames Its Broken 911 Upgrade
The law was named for Miles Hall, a 23-year-old Walnut Creek man with schizophrenia shot dead by police in 2019.
Silicon Valley's 'Pain Index' returns: top 10% now hold 75% of the wealth
Buying a standard home in San Jose now requires an income north of $460,000 — one of a raft of figures in this year's…
A Sixth Hearing, and a Parole Board Says the Los Altos Woman Who Stabbed Her Husband Is Ready to Go Home
Fifteen years after she pulled on a mechanic's jumpsuit over a layer of bubble wrap and stabbed her estranged husband…
The FAA Told Sonoma County a Quieter Flight Path Was Impossible. Then Bohemian Grove Showed Up.
For more than two years, West Sonoma County residents were told the quieter departure route from their regional airport…
Oakland Station Seniors Took Their Roaches to Sacramento — to the State Agency That Funded Their Landlord
More than 20 senior tenants from a deep East Oakland affordable complex bused to Sacramento last week not just to shame…
A Decade On, the FBI Wants a Second Look at the Aquatic Park Pokémon Go Killing
Ten years after 20-year-old Calvin Riley was shot dead while playing Pokémon Go on the Aquatic Park promenade, the FBI…
California Says It Dodged the National Cyclospora Outbreak — So Why Did Its Own Cases Jump Fivefold Since June?
California is one of the few states that health officials say the national cyclospora outbreak spared.
Richardson Bay's Anchor‑Out Era Ends With a Housing Voucher — and a Decade of Pressure to Clear the Bay
The last "eligible" person living aboard a boat on Sausalito's Richardson Bay moved into permanent housing in July…
SFMTA's Outside Lands Plan: Extra Muni, Road Closures, and a New Leash on Waymo
San Francisco's transit plan for Outside Lands promises extra N-Judah trains, free rides for wristband holders and…
Stanford Scientists Used AI to Build Working Viruses — and Warn the Method Could Be Turned Dangerous
Researchers at Stanford, working with Palo Alto's Arc Institute, used artificial intelligence to design viruses that…
A Sequoia Billionaire Will Pay $150M to 'Fix' SF. He's Already Been Reshaping It.
Michael Moritz, the former Sequoia Capital chairman whose money already flows through San Francisco's ballot measures…
SF Can Only Fine the Scooters It Permits. The Real Problem Rides Unregulated.
San Francisco's rental scooters rack up between 1,000 and 2,000 rule violations a month — but the vehicles causing the…
SF Jury Convicts Driver Who Dragged a Sleeping Man in Tenderloin Hit‑and‑Run
A San Francisco jury has convicted a 55-year-old man of driving his SUV into a man asleep on a mattress on a Tenderloin…
Santa Cruz County's Homeless Count Rose 12% — and the County Says Part of That Is Its Own New Math
Santa Cruz County's annual homeless count climbed to 1,648 people this year, a 12% jump that ended several years of…
SFO's $11 Billion Building Spree Bets on Luxury — Even as Its Own Runway Work Fuels Delays
San Francisco International Airport is roughly midway through an $11 billion, decade-long capital program — pouring…
Bay Area COVID Wastewater Hits 'High' at More Than Half of Sites as Kids Head Back to School
COVID-19 is climbing sharply in the Bay Area's sewers just as students prepare to head back to classrooms: virus…
A Tourism Board Wants Alameda County, Dublin and Pleasanton to Bankroll a $365M Arena. One City Is Already Broke.
Visit Tri-Valley, the region's taxpayer-supported tourism arm, is pitching a $365 million, publicly funded event center…