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PG&E Found "Third-Party Damage" Behind Six Flags Discovery Kingdom's Summer Saturday Shutdown

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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo was forced to close all day Saturday after a power outage — traced by PG&E to…

June 13, 2026

Aldon Smith, Who Set the 49ers' All-Time Single-Season Sack Record, Dies at 36

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Aldon Smith, the former San Francisco 49ers defensive end whose 19.5 sacks in the 2012 season remain a franchise record…

June 13, 2026

Fog Blocked the Helicopter. So SF Firefighters Slid a Stranded Hiker Down Dead Man's Point Instead.

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A planned helicopter rescue collapsed when dense fog closed back in over San Francisco's Lands End on Friday night…

June 13, 2026

Berkeley Will Charge for Parking Until 8 PM and on Sundays — Starting This Summer

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Berkeley motorists will soon pay to park later in the evening and on Sundays for the first time, after the City Council…

June 13, 2026

SF's Most Notorious Unsolved LGBTQ Cold Case Gets a $250,000 Reward — 50 Years Later

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The San Francisco Police Department has posted its maximum available reward — $250,000 — for information in the…

June 13, 2026

Chakrabarti Spent $10 Million to Lose. Now He's Turning His Campaign Into a PAC for the Candidate Who Beat Him.

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Saikat Chakrabarti finished third in the CD-11 primary with 18 percent of the vote.

June 13, 2026

SF Court Published Pretrial Metrics It Knew Were Flawed. Taxpayers Could Pay $4.7M More for the Replacement.

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San Francisco's Superior Court acknowledged its own data limitations in writing — then published the numbers anyway to…

June 13, 2026

SF Billionaires Ran the Table in June — But Lurie's Endorsement Was the Real Force Multiplier

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Every major tech donor to San Francisco's June 3 primary walked away a winner.

June 13, 2026

No Due Diligence, No Accountability: How SF Let an Unvetted Promoter Con City Hall Out of a Civic Center Boxing Bonanza

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A British marketing executive with no boxing license and a questionable track record talked his way into a mayoral…

June 13, 2026

Activists Gathering Signatures to Force a Voter Mandate on Prop. I Housing Money City Hall Quietly Diverted

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A DSA-backed coalition is racing to qualify a November ballot initiative that would constitutionally earmark…

June 13, 2026

DA Charges Bayview Cop-Shooting Suspect With 14 Felonies — But the 'Parole Failure' Story Is More Complicated Than It Sounds

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Norris Reed III, the Oakland man accused of shooting San Francisco police Officer Brittney Taylor during a Bayview gun…

June 13, 2026

Two Juveniles Arrested After Pepper-Spray Pokémon Card Heist in SF — Part of a Growing Bay Area Pattern

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San Francisco police arrested two teenage suspects last month after a seller was pepper-sprayed in a park and robbed of…

June 12, 2026

Nob Hill Foot Chase Turns Fatal: Shoplifting Suspect Dead, Two Officers Hospitalized After Being Struck by Car

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A shoplifting call at the Nob Hill Trader Joe's spiraled into a fatal street collision Friday morning when a gray Lexus…

June 12, 2026

UC Forms Work Group on SAT Return as 1,400-Plus Faculty Cite Campus Math Crisis

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The University of California's Academic Senate announced Thursday that a formal faculty committee will investigate…

June 12, 2026

Two Outlets Now Confirm the Tenderloin's Turk-and-Hyde Oasis Is a Budget-Cut Casualty

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A converted parking lot at Turk and Hyde streets — one of the few places in the Tenderloin where residents can sit, eat…

June 12, 2026

Berkeley's Zone 0 Fire Rules Meet Their First Red-Flag Test — With Half the Hills Still Uninspected

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The first red flag warning of Berkeley's fire season arrived this week as a stress test of the city's signature…

June 12, 2026

Oakland Paid $376,000 to a Rescue That Was Killing Its Dogs

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Oakland Animal Services and its volunteer fundraising arm paid $376,000 over four years to a Humboldt County nonprofit…

June 12, 2026

The Bay Area's Heat Is Breaking. The Fire It Helped Start Still Isn't.

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As triple-digit temperatures peaked across the North Bay on Thursday — Petaluma hit 101°F just after 1 p.m.

June 12, 2026

A San Bruno Engineer Built an Open-Source System That Projects SFO Flights on His Ceiling. 2,600 Developers Want It Too.

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Cameron Paczek lives directly under SFO's approach corridor in San Bruno.

June 11, 2026

Ordered to provide sunlight in 2023, San Francisco still jails women without it, new suit alleges

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Nine women held in San Francisco's County Jail No.

June 11, 2026

After Shelving the BUILD Act, Lurie and Mahmood Push a Standalone 'Foreclosure Tax' for November

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Days after pausing a transfer-tax cut that critics said would have blown a $400 million hole in the city budget, Mayor…

June 11, 2026

The Gilroy ICE Facility Was Planned on Land With 30 Years of Chemical Spills. California Just Filed Suit to Stop It.

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California and Santa Clara County filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to halt construction of a planned ICE facility near…

June 11, 2026

Berkeley Scraps Containment Map After Leptospirosis Kills Resident in RV Swarming With Nearly 200 Rats

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A Berkeley resident died in May after contracting leptospirosis while living in a recreational vehicle that harbored…

June 11, 2026

Berkeley Police Arrest Suspect in Animal Shelter Arson as Investigators Probe a Second Act of Vandalism

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Berkeley police have arrested a 48-year-old man on suspicion of setting the fire that shuttered the city's animal…

June 11, 2026