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Five San Jose Schools Are Gone. This Month, Their Students Started Over Somewhere Else.

When San Jose Unified opened its doors on Aug.

4d ago

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.

4d ago

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…

4d ago

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…

4d ago

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…

4d ago
The FAA Told Sonoma County a Quieter Flight Path Was Impossible. Then Bohemian Grove Showed Up.
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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…

5d ago

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…

5d ago
Saturday, August 8

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.

5d ago

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…

5d ago

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…

6d ago
SFMTA's Outside Lands Plan: Extra Muni, Road Closures, and a New Leash on Waymo
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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…

6d ago

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…

6d ago

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…

6d ago

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…

6d ago

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…

6d ago
Santa Cruz County's Homeless Count Rose 12% — and the County Says Part of That Is Its Own New Math
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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…

6d ago
Friday, August 7

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…

6d ago

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…

6d ago

A San Jose Judge Just Called 500 License‑Plate Cameras 'Surveillance Cameras.' The EFF Says That's the Whole Problem.

A Santa Clara County judge has tentatively ruled that San Jose can keep searching its network of roughly 500 automated…

August 7, 2026

Police Arrest a Suspect in Foster City's Spinnaker Cove Fire — and Add an Obstruction Charge

Foster City police have arrested a suspect in the six-alarm fire that gutted the Spinnaker Cove condominium complex and…

August 7, 2026
Police Arrest a Suspect in Foster City's Spinnaker Cove Fire — and Add an Obstruction Charge
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Before Dawn on Oakport Street, Hundreds Line Up for an EDD Office Its Own Agency Admits Is Short‑Staffed

Disability and Paid Family Leave applicants are arriving in the dark with folding chairs outside California's Oakland…

August 7, 2026

SB 747 Would Let Californians Sue ICE Agents. First It Has to Survive the Suspense File.

Two months after headlines declared that California could soon let immigrants sue ICE agents, Scott Wiener's "No Kings…

August 7, 2026

A $25,000 Check and a Bay FC Sweatshirt: The Loophole Bankrolling Matt Dorsey

Crypto billionaire Chris Larsen can legally give Supervisor Matt Dorsey's reelection campaign no more than $500.

August 7, 2026
Thursday, August 6

51 Charged, 76 Guns Seized in Oakland's 'Operation Disarm' — Yet the Nightclub Killing Officials Cite Draws Only a Firearms Charge

Federal prosecutors and Oakland police gathered inside the Dellums Federal Building Thursday to announce 51 people…

August 6, 2026

SF's Recovery Community Rallied to Demand the City Enforce Drug Laws — and Turned on the $14M RESET Center

The people at the microphone on Wednesday weren't neighbors complaining about a drug market from a safe distance.

August 6, 2026
SF's Recovery Community Rallied to Demand the City Enforce Drug Laws — and Turned on the $14M RESET Center
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Stanford Ditches Flock — But Palo Alto's Audit Shows Its Police Were Still Searching Shared Plate Data in June

Stanford University has terminated its contract with Flock Safety, the license-plate surveillance firm facing a…

August 6, 2026

Oakland Police Sued for Withholding Records in a Fatal Shooting of a Homeless Man

Oakland police still won't say who they killed on July 13.

August 6, 2026

Bonta Tells Menlo Park It Broke Housing Law to Stall a 665‑Unit Tower — and Billed the Developer $302,938 to Fight It

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has told Menlo Park that it repeatedly broke state housing law to stall the…

August 6, 2026

Alameda County Supervisors Delay Nation's First $30 Minimum Wage — Despite 100,000 Signatures

A certified ballot initiative to make Alameda County the first place in the country with a $30 minimum wage won't reach…

August 6, 2026

Lurie Says a Former Nordstrom Rack Will Become 136 Homes. The City Won't Say How Many Are Affordable.

Mayor Daniel Lurie's newest housing showpiece is a shuttered discount department store at 901 Market St.

August 6, 2026
Lurie Says a Former Nordstrom Rack Will Become 136 Homes. The City Won't Say How Many Are Affordable.
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Bex’s queue · Opus 4.8

YIMBY leaders give Mayor Lurie a B- on housing. Mayor Mamdani gets an A-.

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Power outage in Forest Hill & West Portal

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Flock’s pitch to police: Be like Oakland and Richmond

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Family of man killed in Oakland police ‘ghost chase’ will get $17M settlement

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Please help - PGE

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