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Santa Clara updates scholarship program to help more low-income youths play...
Santa Clara wants to make it easier for low-income youths to play sports by paying their fees.The Santa Clara City Council voted unanimously Tuesday, with Councilmember Raj Chahal absent, to make the...
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Mendocino County’s first Poet Laureate Devreaux Baker gains national...
Devreaux Baker, Mendocino County’s first poet laureate, was about 19 years old when she left her home in Texas with her partner and began exploring the coast of Mendocino County. When she arrived in...
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Broadening the ban: San Jose extends hours prohibiting sleeping on downtown...
SAN JOSE HOMELESS residents are at risk of being cited or arrested if they’re caught sleeping or sitting on the sidewalk by early morning.The City Council voted unanimously at its March 11 meeting to...
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Tow trouble: San Francisco towing operator charged with plot to burn...
The operator of two San Francisco-based towing companies was indicted this week in federal court on accusations that he created and directed a plan to set competitors’ tow trucks on fire. Jose Vicente...
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Marin County extends discounts on permits for ADU housing construction...
Homeowners in unincorporated Marin County looking to build an accessory dwelling unit, or ADU, will still be able to save thousands on permit fees after a move by the Board of Supervisors last week.The...
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‘There’s no trust there’: ‘Exhausted’ Martinez residents vent anger over...
MARTINEZ RESIDENTS MADE something very clear at a town hall meeting called by Contra Costa County Supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston on Thursday night.They’re tired of coming to meetings about mishaps...
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Silicon Valley college district to convert apartments into affordable student...
Hundreds of students in one community college district may not have to worry about housing insecurity as it builds out affordable off-campus apartments — a first of its kind project in Santa Clara...
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Samuel Merritt University to hold free human trafficking training for medical...
Samuel Merritt University’s Oakland campus will soon hold its free annual training aimed to teach medical professionals how to recognize the signs of human trafficking and provide trauma-informed...
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Ides of March arrives for thousands of school employees facing potential...
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS are again turning to layoffs to shore up budgets shrunk by declining enrollment, expiring federal COVID relief funds and a leveling off of state funding. So far, more than...
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AI use in classrooms? California college professors have mixed views on its...
Since Open AI’s release of ChatGPT in 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and models have found their way into the California college systems. These AI tools include language models and image...
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AC Transit raising bus fares for first time since 2020 to help close $238M...
In order to help fill an estimated $238 million, four-year budget gap, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit is hiking bus fares for the first time since 2020. The two-county, bus-only transit agency will phase...
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Review: New Conservatory Theatre Center stages Colman Domingo’s touching...
In its world premiere in 2012 at New York’s Public Theater, the central figure in “Wild with Happy” was played by the playwright himself, the man of the hour, Colman Domingo. A former Bay Area theater...
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Oakland Unified says expected budget deficit now ‘more manageable’ after...
The Oakland Unified School District says budget balancing efforts have reduced next year’s deficit from a previously projected $95 million to about $12.5 million.The second largest school district in...
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Controversial San Francisco oceanfront park replacing Great Highway targeted...
A mural at a controversial oceanfront park replacing the Great Highway in San Francisco was discovered vandalized over the weekend after the area was closed to cars. The park, authorized by voters in...
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Review: Shotgun Players’ ‘Art’: edgy, intense, rewarding
The subject of Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning play “Art” isn’t paintings and sculptures in the great museums of the world; artists struggling to create art; or art as defined by curators who aren’t...
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Cinequest draws global film lovers, fueling a five-star economic boost in...
Film-lovers from across the globe have landed in San Jose for Cinequest, giving downtown a multimillion-dollar economic boost. Echoing its theme of luminate, the Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival...
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SF mayor backs extending program to waive fees for small business startups,...
A program to help spur the creation of small businesses in San Francisco that is set to expire this summer could be extended another year after receiving backing from Mayor Daniel Lurie. The First Year...
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San Jose cracking down on vanlords who rent recreational vehicles to homeless...
SAN JOSE HAS PROBLEMS with slumlords and now they have problems with vanlords.City officials are targeting vanlords, individuals who they said prey on the homeless residents by renting them inoperable...
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Ex-Antioch cop proudly kept K-9 ‘bite count’ — now he’s convicted of civil...
A former Antioch police officer who directed his police dog to bite suspects — even when it wasn’t necessary — was convicted last week of violating victims’ civil rights and falsifying records.Morteza...
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Unsettled weather, frosty conditions to give way to warming trend over the...
The Bay Area will experience blustery, rainy, unsettled weather through the early part of this week, with thunderstorm chances giving way to the potential for frost advisories. Monday’s windy, stormy...
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