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Oakley parties like it’s 1999: Town celebrates 25 years of cityhood with...
THE SPECTATORS LINED up early on Saturday. They snuggled in along Main Street across from Civic Center Park, some with folding camp chairs, a few dressed in red, white and blue attire, all eager to...
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Playing with fire: Scalding equipment raises safety concerns at East San Jose...
AN 18-FOOT-TALL chicken named Chiquita overlooks children racing across the playground, while Alexandra Villalobos sits on a picnic blanket with her 12-year-old son Max Camacho at Emma Prusch Farm...
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Newark police seek public’s help to solve 2022 memorial service homicide case
Newark police are asking for the public’s help in solving the 2022 death of a man who lapsed into a coma after a fight at a local park, during a memorial service for a shooting victim. Around 11 p.m....
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Green-Blue politics: How new tax on Chevron could fuel goals of...
PICTURE A FUTURE where sail boats dock at the long wharf in Richmond, on the spot where tankers once delivered crude oil. Picture windmills on the south-facing hills, instead of petroleum tanks,...
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A fare exchange: Golden Gate Bridge tolls to rise July 1 as district looks to...
Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge will cost 50 cents more for all drivers beginning Monday. On July 1, drivers of double-axle vehicles and motorcycles will see tolls for non-FasTrak drivers jump from...
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San Mateo County Health to distribute PPE to farmworkers amid rising concern...
Personal protective equipment will be distributed to dairy and poultry farmworkers in San Mateo County to protect against the H5N1 virus, county health officials said. Due to a rising concern of...
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A ‘lifeline’ for California’s rural schools is about to expire. Why is it...
Rural schools in California already struggle with declining enrollment, staffing shortages and wildfires. Now they’re facing the possible loss of money they’ve relied on for more than a century. The...
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San Jose council moves ahead with funding for low-income affordable housing...
SAN JOSE LEADERS have approved $7.3 million in Measure E funds for a very low-income affordable housing development in South San Jose. The $45.4-million multi-family development is the latest...
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Gonzales man sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for stabbing animals...
A Gonzales man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of stabbing animals inside a school property in February 2023, Monterey County prosecutors said. Jose Jesse Marquez,...
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Voters to decide $20B regional bond measure to provide more Bay Area...
Voters in the nine Bay Area counties will see a $20 billion affordable housing bond from the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority on the ballot in November. If passed, each county would receive anywhere...
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‘This very much represents San Francisco’: Pride Parade draws thousands to...
Thousands of people have gathered in downtown San Francisco to celebrate the annual Pride Parade supporting the LGBTQ+ community. Crowds lined up along Market Street to witness the array of colorful...
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Oakland lifts pandemic-era rent increase freeze on Rent Adjustment Program units
Oakland’s pandemic-era moratorium on rent increases on Rent Adjustment Program housing units will end this week, according to a press release from the city. The emergency moratorium was adopted in...
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Priced out of town: Newark councilman quits, blames sky-high Bay Area housing...
A longtime Newark City Councilmember announced he is stepping down after being “priced out of town.” Mike Bucci made the announcement in a Facebook post, saying that he and his wife were unable to buy...
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Despite facing budget cuts, Oakland police launch program to ramp up street...
The Oakland Police Department is putting more officers on the streets just as city elected leaders are trying to figure out how many fewer officers the department will be able to have in the coming...
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July 2024 author events: Jude Berman, Olivia Gatwood, Marjan Kamali, Janie...
Debut novels, short stories and memoirs by locals are up for discussion and sale. And Amy Stewart, popular author of the “The Drunken Botanist,” has several events in the region to promote her new...
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Oakland firefighter drowns in San Diego beach — 4 years after firefighter...
An Oakland firefighter who died last week in San Diego after an apparent drowning has been identified by Oakland Fire as 25-year-old Caeden Laffan. Laffan went into the ocean off Pacific Beach near...
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They conquered gloom and Zoom: Class of ’24 college graduates look ahead to...
GRADUATION SEASON HAS come to a close. Thousands of new graduates, with diplomas in hand, are entering the workforce this summer. For the class of 2024, their college experience has been a crash...
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Pass the Remote: H.P. Mendoza’s appealing ‘Secret,’ Fraenkel artists curate...
San Francisco director H.P. Mendoza sees the biggest theatrical release of his career this week with “The Secret Art of Human Flight,” an indie dramedy about a children’s book author trying to...
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Chicano Batman wows Stern Grove crowd in second week of free SF music fest
Chicano Batman captivated a capacity crowd on Sunday during the second weekend of the free Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco. The Latin Indie rock band from Los Angeles exuded cool with a high...
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Bay Area heat wave: Air alert and Red Flag Warning issued; safety tips...
The first major heat wave of the year is expected to impact the Bay Area starting Tuesday afternoon. Most of the Bay Area and neighboring counties are under National Weather Service-issued heat...
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