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Berkeley Clears Hopkins Street Bike Lanes in 7‑2 Vote, Ending an Eight‑Year Standoff
After public comment pushed a Berkeley City Council meeting past midnight, the council voted 7-2 to repave Hopkins…
Nine Years, Four Mayors, $166 Million: What San Francisco Paid for 160 Homes at a Former Haight McDonald's
The affordable-housing complex that opened this week at 730 Stanyan St.
A 'Never Again' Coalition Confronts a Planned ICE Facility Near Gilroy as a September Injunction Hearing Nears
Descendants of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II stood in San José's Japantown last week and drew a…
Parents of SFO Ramp Worker Crushed Under a Cargo Pallet Sue the City and Two dnata Contractors
Seven months after 28-year-old John Lacayanga was found pinned beneath a cargo pallet he had been towing on an SFO…
A Marin Hilltop, 40 Homes, and a Test of How Far California's Density‑Bonus Law Can Stretch
A Strawberry neighborhood group has sued Marin County to block its just-approved 337-home redevelopment of the former…
SFPD Floods a Two‑Block Stretch of Mid‑Market With 24/7 Foot Patrols After Three Shootings in Five Days
San Francisco is blanketing a two-block stretch of Mid-Market with round-the-clock police foot patrols through Monday…
Reem's California to shutter Mission Street kitchen for two months after hit‑and‑run
Reem's California, the acclaimed Arab street-food restaurant on Mission Street, will close for roughly two months after…
Grand Lake Kitchen Brings Its Oakland Brunch to Noe Valley's Old Mr. Digby's Space
Grand Lake Kitchen, the Oakland all-day café that built a following at Lake Merritt and in the Dimond District, has…
A Carpentry Student Was Killed at an East Oakland Campus Built to Keep People Safe
Kimarii McLemore, 25, was shot and killed Friday morning at an East Oakland adult school where she had enrolled in a…
Newsom Finally Released His Tax Returns — Late, and Under a Federal Cloud
Gov. Gavin Newsom released four years of tax returns Friday — his first disclosure since 2022 — after years of not…
Peaches Christ's Terror Vault Turns the Old Mint Into an '80s Slasher Movie for Halloween
Terror Vault, the immersive haunt staged in the basement of San Francisco's Old Mint, returns October 1 with "Slashed…
Solano County Wants to Tax the Data‑Center Boom Before It Arrives. In November, Voters Decide.
Solano County's Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 on July 28 to put Measure E on the November ballot — a business-license…
California's Quiet Fire Year Faces Its First Real Test as a Peak‑Season Heat Wave Arrives
California has burned about 208,000 acres so far in 2026 — a mild tally by recent standards — but a long-duration heat…
UC Opened Its Doors to a Record Number of Californians. Berkeley Kept Closing Them.
The University of California admitted a record 102,031 California first-year students for fall 2026 — but its Bay Area…
Oakland DOJ Wrings $15M and a Three‑Year Monitor From Nursing Chain That Understaffed 14,000 Times
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has secured a $15 million Medi-Cal settlement from Sweetwater Care, a 17-facility…
Santa Clara County Logs the Bay Area's First Human West Nile Cases of 2026 — as Bird and Mosquito Infections Surge Region‑Wide
Two Santa Clara County residents have become the Bay Area's first confirmed human West Nile virus cases of 2026 — but…
While Monarchs Vanish, Their Orange Lookalike Is Swarming the Sierra by the Million
A native butterfly that most Californians can't name is having the kind of year monarchs no longer do: California…
Giants Move to Suspend Harrison Bader's Pay in a Scooter‑Crash Contract Fight
The San Francisco Giants say they will stop paying outfielder Harrison Bader, who reinjured his already-fragile left…
Feds Move to Let Robotaxis Drop the Brake Pedal — and the Wheel‑Free Cars Already Roam SF
Federal regulators cleared Amazon's Zoox to start charging fares in cars built with no steering wheel — and proposed…
Caltrain's Retired Diesels Now Earn It $2.14 Million a Year Hauling Amtrak Riders to Sacramento
Three of the diesel locomotives Caltrain retired when it went electric are back at work on the other side of the Bay —…
A $500,000 DOJ Grant Vanished From SF's Asian Women's Shelter — and Washington Wants to Make That Easier
Last spring, a letter from the Justice Department told San Francisco's Asian Women's Shelter that the $500,000 grant…
San Ramon Isn't Converting Its Empty Offices — It's Demolishing Them for 8,000 Homes
San Ramon's Bishop Ranch, a 585-acre corporate office park, isn't retrofitting its half-empty buildings into apartments.