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Early fire season forecast fuels concerns about impact federal budget cuts...
Bay Area firefighters are preparing for a difficult fire season this summer.The latest seasonal outlook report from the National Interagency Fire Center Predictive Services released Thursday predicts...
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Oakland interim mayor delivers $4.4B budget proposal to tackle deficit, keep...
INTERIM OAKLAND MAYOR KEVIN JENKINS delivered a nearly $4.4 billion, two-year budget proposal to the City Council Monday, emphasizing the need to protect police and fire services while simultaneously...
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Home-based food businesses may soon have easier path to getting permit in...
Foodie-focused Marin County is making a move to make it easier for culinary microbusinesses to get started.“In post-pandemic Marin County, buying meals from vendors making home-cooked food has grown...
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Haney bill challenging state’s ‘Housing First’ law would fund drug-free...
Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, stood with local leaders at San Francisco’s City Hall on Monday to promote new legislation that would allow 25% of state funds for recovery housing to go to...
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Judge’s ruling gives Musk green light to press forward with his fraud claims...
A FEDERAL JUDGE sitting in Oakland has dismissed nearly a dozen of the claims billionaire Elon Musk has asserted in his pending lawsuit against OpenAI Inc., the artificial intelligence developer, but...
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Oakland chef to relocate after downtown shooting, sets up GoFundMe to...
A shooting in a downtown Oakland restaurant has left two people injured and prompted the chef to say he’ll move the establishment from the landmark Tribune Tower to a “safer environment.”The shooting...
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Focused on the goal: Santa Clara won’t spend any taxpayer money on World Cup...
THE WORLD’S LARGEST sporting event — the FIFA World Cup — is coming to the United States in 2026, and Santa Clara is one of the only cities not breaking the bank to prepare, a data analysis by San José...
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Congressional probe threatens to unravel historic agreement on Point Reyes...
IN JANUARY, THE future of ranching in Point Reyes National Seashore was upended. A landmark legal settlement agreement between environmental groups and the National Park Service promised to phase out...
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Jazz trumpet star Ambrose Akinmusire creates premiere for Alonzo King Lines...
Acclaimed Oakland jazz trumpeter and composer Ambrose Akinmusire has found his recent collaboration with San Francisco choreographer Alonzo King to be healing and transformative. “I’m grieving, as my...
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LinkedIn and Google face lawsuit alleging improper access to California...
ONE DAY AFTER an investigation by CalMatters and The Markup, LinkedIn and Google were hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging they improperly received confidential data from trackers on...
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Search for 79-year-old Bay Area hiker with dementia moves into ‘limited...
As the search for a missing hiker with dementia moved into its sixth day on Tuesday, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office said the multi-agency operation will transition into a “limited continuous...
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Free concerts will return to downtown San Francisco in June for second year
FREE CONCERTS WILL RETURN to downtown San Francisco this summer for a second year as part of an agreement with a company seeking to produce a show in Golden Gate Park. The partnership with promoter...
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With Sheriff Corpus attending, county board refines process for her removal...
THE SAN MATEO COUNTY Board of Supervisors has approved revisions to proposed procedures for the removal of Sheriff Christina Corpus in a process that could take several months.Tuesday’s board decision...
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Wherefore art thou funding? Marin theater company copes with loss of NEA...
The Marin Shakespeare Company is among several Bay Area arts organizations to receive notice that their previously awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts have been terminated.The...
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Time to get real: Don’t have your REAL ID yet? That may mean travel headaches...
DO YOU HAVE your REAL ID yet? If you are 18 or older and plan to fly domestically and don’t have a passport, you’ll need a state-issued REAL ID to step on a domestic flight starting Wednesday. Here’s...
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‘Millions out on the street virtually overnight’: How Trump’s budget proposal...
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS RELEASED a budget blueprint for the next fiscal year that would take a chainsaw to social, environmental and education programs. Some of the sharpest cuts are directed at housing...
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Best Bets: ‘Night Music’ chamber concert, Lines Ballet, Axis Dance Co., Mark...
Freebie of the week: Members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and its pianist Robert Mollicone are gathering at the Piedmont Piano Company in Oakland on Thursday evening to offer, gratis, a little...
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Subsidized housing in peril? Trump proposal could jeopardize Silicon Valley...
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S latest attack on housing comes as he proposes major overhauls to rental assistance programs meant to help people from falling into homelessness.In an outline of the Trump...
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Millions in new grant funding to boost West Oakland jobs, schools and green...
ENTREPRENEURS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS and educators will soon have access to millions of dollars in grants via the West Oakland Community Fund, city officials announced last week. The fund will initially...
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San Jose AI firm settles for $1.5M to resolve allegations of improper grant...
The U.S. Department of Justice has settled with a San Jose-based artificial intelligence company for $1.5 million that was accused of improperly using grant money it was ineligible to receive.Federal...
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