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…
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.
SF Is Spending $18 Million to Defend Detained Immigrants. Former Federal Informants Aren't in the Plan.
When ICE arrested Alberto at a scheduled immigration appointment in Fresno last fall, he had spent years working…
SF Foreclosure Tax Clears Committee, Awaits Full Board Vote for November Ballot
A controversial proposal to tax foreclosure sales of commercial and multifamily properties in San Francisco has…
The Burrito Boys Are a Dynasty Now: El Farolito Wins Second NPSL Title in Three Years
El Farolito, the soccer team run out of a Mission District taqueria and staffed by cooks, construction workers and…
August 2, 2026
A Database Is Coming for California's School Janitors. Its Teachers Just Dodged One Again.
A California bill that would have let school districts check whether a teaching applicant had been reported to the…
A Cannabis Café on Valencia, and the Ordinance That Rescued a 10‑Year Bet
San Francisco could be home to the Bay Area's first Amsterdam-style cannabis café by next summer — the payoff of a…
Native or Invasive? The California Gull Boom Reshaping South Bay's Salt Ponds
A gull species that didn't nest anywhere near San Francisco Bay a few decades ago now numbers in the tens of thousands…
A Hayward Man Was Killed in a Philippine Military Operation. Now California Lawmakers Want Answers
Lyle Prijoles, a 40-year-old Hayward resident, was one of 19 people killed in an April military operation in the…
California's Largest Urban Bat Colony Puts on a Nightly Show Near Sacramento — but 2026 Tours Are Already Sold Out
If watching a quarter-million bats spiral into the dusk was on your summer list, you're too late for this year: the…
August 2, 2026
Musk's AI Company Wants a San José Deepfake Case Moved to a Texas Judge It Prefers
Elon Musk's AI company is asking a federal judge in San José to freeze a proposed class action accusing its Grok…
Roblox's Safety Overhaul Comes With a Wall Street Bill: San Mateo Firm Loses a Quarter of Its Value in a Day
Roblox, the San Mateo game platform that spent 2026 rebuilding itself around child safety, watched Wall Street punish…
California's Nation‑Leading $17.40 Minimum Wage Is a Floor Most Bay Area Cities Already Cleared
When California's statewide minimum wage climbs to a nation-leading $17.40 an hour on January 1, 2027, it will still…
A San Francisco Court Just Reopened Bond Hearings for Immigrants Detained Across California
A federal appeals court headquartered in San Francisco ruled Thursday that the Trump administration cannot jail…
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…
August 2, 2026
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…
August 1, 2026
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…
August 1, 2026
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…
July 31, 2026
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