The Report That Was Supposed to Settle SF's Sprinkler Fight Pegged the Cost at $15,000 to $225,000 a Unit — and Settled Nothing
The Board of Supervisors' own budget analysts studied what it would cost to force fire sprinklers into 126 aging San…
Haney's Ticket‑Resale Cap Cleared the Assembly. Now It's Stuck on the Senate's 'Suspense File.'
A bill by San Francisco Assemblymember Matt Haney to cap ticket-resale markups at 10% above face value has quietly…
SF Contractor Couple Charged in Alleged Workers' Comp Fraud Scheme Involving an Injured Worker
Prosecutors say a San Francisco construction couple hid years of payroll from the state, then told an employee who lost…
San Mateo County Could Be Among the First in the U.S. to Make Businesses Buy a Permit for Their Robots
San Mateo County supervisors are weighing a plan that would make the county one of the first jurisdictions in the…
Clayton Lost Its Newspaper. A Conservative PAC Now Calls Itself the Town's 'Most Trusted News Source.'
When the Clayton Pioneer folded last summer, this four-square-mile East Bay town of 11,000 became a news desert…
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Rideshare Drivers Just Cleared the Bar to Unionize Under a Law Written in Oakland — Without Ever Becoming Employees
The California Gig Workers Union has hit the 30% support threshold that puts hundreds of thousands of Uber and Lyft…
Suisun City Won't Rule Out Paying a Ransom as Its Cyberattack Enters a Second Week
Asked whether Suisun City would pay a ransom to the people who crippled its computer network, Mayor Alma Hernandez did…
The LiDAR Palo Alto Installed to Quiet Its Trains Is Now the Reason One Crossing Still Blares
Palo Alto finished the federal safety work to silence train horns at its northernmost Caltrain crossing back in June.
The 30th and Fulton Bottleneck: SFMTA Avoided a July 4th Repeat at Outside Lands — Then Its Own Bus Plan Jammed the Exits
San Francisco's plan to move 75,000 Outside Lands fans a day without a July 4th–style gridlock mostly held — but the…
Roger Craig Waited 30 Years for Canton. He Used the Moment to Say Football May Be Taking His Memory.
In the final minutes of the pre-recorded speech that finally inducted him into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Roger…
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Released a Day Too Soon: A Martinez Man Was Killed Before His Accused Attacker's Monitor Was Even On
The man accused of stabbing 68-year-old Todd Stewart to death outside his Martinez home had been released from custody…
A Bronx Boatbuilding Program Made Its First California Skiff — and Left It at India Basin for Everyone
Sixteen San Francisco teenagers spent more than a year turning raw plywood into a 16-foot wooden rowboat, and on…
SF's 'Family Zoning' Was Supposed to Reshape the West Side. Seven Months In, It's Produced Fewer Than 40 Units.
Seven months after San Francisco's biggest rezoning in a generation took effect, the pipeline it was meant to fill…
Why Nearly Every BART Departure Moved This Week: One Platform Flip at Daly City
Almost every BART train in the system left at a slightly different time starting Monday — and the agency traces nearly…
A Federal Court Tossed Trump's Homelessness‑Funding Rules. Santa Clara County's Win Is Procedural — and Temporary.
Santa Clara County sued the Trump administration over new rules for $4 billion in homelessness funding — and on Friday…
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'San Quentin Guard' Sentenced to 165 to Life — but His Crimes Were Against His Own Family
A retired California corrections officer was sentenced Friday to 165 years to life in a Napa County courtroom, but the…
BART's Weekends Came Back. Its Weekdays Didn't — and That's the Whole Budget Problem.
Weekend riders have all but returned to BART's trains.
SF Announces 87 Arrests in a Drug Crackdown. Only 13 Were New Cases.
Of the 87 people San Francisco police and prosecutors say they arrested in this month's headline narcotics operation…
'The Need Is Tremendous': Behind the Longer Food‑Bank Lines, a Federal Benefit Cut Takes Hold in the Same Months
The pantry line at a San Jose church keeps getting longer — and it is growing in the same months an expanded federal…
One Oakland Address, 500 Power Tools: How a Juvenile Burglary Crew Fed an Alleged East Bay Fence
When investigators walked into a home in Oakland this month, they didn't find a burglar — they found the buyer: at…
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Two Oakland Boys, 6 and 4, Critically Hurt a Pedestrian. The Law Has No Driver to Charge.
When a white Toyota Camry driven in tandem by two brothers — ages 6 and 4 — sideswiped a car and plowed into Kiara…
A Philanthropy‑Funded Bet Against Family Homelessness Runs Out of Runway in December
The rental-assistance program keeping hundreds of San Francisco families in their homes isn't a city program at all —…
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.
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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.
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