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California High-Speed Rail's Own Inspector General Just Put a Date on the Cash Cliff: December 2027
California's high-speed rail project has been "running out of money" for a decade of headlines.
AIPAC Money and Dueling FEC Complaints Upend the Race to Replace Swalwell
A week out from the Aug. 18 special election to fill Eric Swalwell's East Bay congressional seat, more than $5 million in outside money has flooded…
Lurie Brands Prop I a 'Slush Fund' — Backed by the Police and Fire Unions He Just Gave Raises
Mayor Daniel Lurie has come out against Proposition I, the November ballot measure that would steer San Francisco's real-estate transfer tax toward…
JPMorgan's $200M Bet on SF Housing Lacks Public Filings for Specific Fund
JPMorgan Chase announced $200 million in financing for a 342-unit SF apartment project and a $15 million investment in the Essential Housing Fund…
The Criminal Case Stopped at Two Drivers. A San Mateo Jury Put a Quarter of the Blame on the Racer's Parents.
A San Mateo County jury on Tuesday awarded $33 million to the twin girls orphaned in a 2022 Redwood City street race — and, in a finding the criminal…
SF Waived the Affordable-Housing Rules to Get Offices Converted. Its Latest Win, 150 Hayes, Has 104 Units and No Required Below-Market Homes.
To coax developers into turning empty downtown offices into apartments, San Francisco cut transfer taxes, rezoned commercial blocks, and eliminated…
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 not say no.
SF's First 'Office Resort' Is a $100M Bet That a Cold Plunge Beats Vacancy
Presidio Bay is spending roughly $100 million to turn 88 Spear Street — bought for a third of its 2014 price, two-thirds empty — into what it calls…
At 3333 California, the First Dirt-Moving Permits Land on a 744-Unit Project a Decade in the Waiting
Two permits — a $190,000 grading filing and an $87,240 demolition filing — entered triage in early August at the vacant former UCSF Laurel Heights…
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.
Fremont Wins WalletHub's 'Happiest City' Crown for a Seventh Year. Its Formula Never Asks Anyone If They're Happy.
For the seventh straight year, the personal-finance site WalletHub named Fremont the happiest city in America — a title city officials market hard.
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 their property manager, but…
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 billions into a Terminal 3…
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 near the Dublin/Pleasanton…
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.
Taylor Farms Accuses Ex-Subsidiary President of $32M Embezzlement — Caught by an IRS Audit, Not Its Own Controls
Salinas-based Taylor Fresh Foods sued former Tennessee subsidiary president Brian Thure and his wife over an alleged four-year, $32 million fraud…
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.
Dimon Boosts SF, Fights the Wealth Tax — From the Arena That Bears His Bank's Name
JPMorgan chairman Jamie Dimon praised SF's crime turnaround and opposed California's Prop 40 wealth tax at a Chase Center event — while his bank sits…
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 successfully navigated the Budget and…
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 that bet on Friday: shares…
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 honoring a pledge to publish them…
Nvidia Spent a Month Financing Its Own Customers. Even a San Jose State Professor Sees the Loop.
Nvidia's July run of deals — a $500B SK partnership, a reported ~$250B backstop on OpenAI's Ohio lease, $5B into a startup with no product — has…
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.
The People Leaving the Bay Area to Buy Homes Aren't the Richest or the Poorest, a New UC Study Finds
Bay Area residents who leave the region are 33% more likely to own a home five years later — but a new University of California study finds the…
At 650 California, the Landlord Is Whoever Owns the Debt — and No One Pays the Transfer Tax
Two New York debt investors, Axonic Capital and GreenBarn Investment Group, control the 33-story tower at 650 California St.
Ken Fulk's Marin Inns Head Toward Foreclosure. The $76 Million Is a Figure From His Own Lawsuit.
Designer Ken Fulk's West Marin inn portfolio, anchored by the storied Manka's Inverness Lodge, faces an August trustee's sale over a defaulted $7.1M…
Tau Robotics Will Rent You a "Humanoid" House Cleaner in SF for $30 an Hour. A Person Is Driving It.
Tau Robotics launched an invite-only $30/hour humanoid home-cleaning service in San Francisco this week — but the CEO concedes a human teleoperator…
Visa Cuts 2,600 Jobs — 7% of Its Workforce — a Day After Posting 14% Revenue Growth
Visa told staff it would cut 2,600 jobs — nearly 7% of its workforce — a day after reporting $11.6B in quarterly net revenue, up 14%.
The One Downtown Mall That Kept Its Lights On Changed Hands — Through a Default, Not a Sale
The Metreon at 135 Fourth St. — downtown's only Target and IMAX, more than 90% leased — passed to TMG Partners and Bridges Capital in February, not…
NVIDIA and SK Group Announce $500 Billion AI Factories Initiative in South Korea
NVIDIA, in partnership with SK Group, announced a sprawling "AI factories" initiative in South Korea, projected to be worth over $500 billion over…