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Historic San Jose house gets new shot at life, helping low-income families...
FOUR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES in San Jose will soon be able to purchase a home of their own. Habitat for Humanity has been renovating the historic Pallesen Apartments building, now located at the corner of...
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Oakland police warn of increase in crimes against rideshare, delivery riders
Rideshare drivers have been targeted in three robberies and attempted carjackings, Oakland police warned. The incidents have occurred after 9 p.m. in the area of 46th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard,...
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Golden State Warriors help transform lives of incarcerated men through...
ONE DAY LAST FALL, Ray Woodfork found himself being challenged to a fight by a fellow inmate half his age on the grounds of Solano State Prison in Vacaville. Woodfork would have been tempted not so...
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AlCo supervisors adopt $5.1B budget without employee layoffs or cuts to services
After vowing to make future budgetary processes more transparent and open to public input, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Thursday unanimously approved a $5.1 billion budget for fiscal...
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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty...
IT HAS BEEN MORE than two years since the release of ChatGPT created widespread dismay over generative AI’s threat to academic integrity. Why would students write anything themselves, instructors...
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Amid rise in real estate scams, Contra Costa DA offers guidance to protect...
AMID A WAVE OF REAL ESTATE fraud schemes targeting older adults, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office hosted a workshop this week aimed at helping residents identify and prevent these...
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Trump’s ‘roadless rule’ repeal could remove protections for 4M acres of...
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S PLAN to repeal a rule prohibiting logging and road construction in undeveloped parts of national forests would strip protection from more than 4 million acres within...
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Grizzly Peak Boulevard, Panoramic Way in Berkeley to be closed for fire danger
Some areas of Berkeley will be closed for 24 hours starting at 5 a.m. on July 4 to reduce fire risk. Grizzly Peak Boulevard, from Centennial Drive to Skyline Boulevard, Panoramic Way and Prospect...
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Port considers new proposed name for Oakland airport that includes ‘San...
PORT OF OAKLAND OFFICIALS are taking another swing at renaming the city’s airport, announcing that they are now considering Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport. It’s the port’s latest attempt at...
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Artificial intelligence and tech’s ever- growing presence in LGBTQ+ community
THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB WORLD AFFAIRS hosted its third-annual Human Rights Summit at its San Francisco office, featuring many panels including “Addressing AI and Tech for the LGBTQIA+ Movement” that...
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Oakland Unified budget is reached but one-time strategies leave future...
The Oakland Unified School District is looking better for the 2024-25 fiscal year than it did last fall, but its use of one-time strategies isn’t solving the problem of too much money going out, and...
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July 2025 author events: Greg Anton, Bridget A. Lyons, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy,...
Debut novels, anticipated novels, memoirs, essays and other timely non-fiction titles by California writers and visiting authors are in this month’s lineup. To submit an event to the calendar, email...
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Drag, joy and community light up PRIDE NightLife at California Academy of...
DRAG PERFORMANCES, an albino alligator, and a celebration of inclusivity took center stage at PRIDE NightLife, an event at the California Academy of Sciences ahead of this year’s San Francisco Pride...
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Review: Magic Theatre’s Luis Afaro premiere ‘Aztlán’ is magical, mesmerizing,...
The match between award-winning California playwright Luis Alfaro and the talented crew in San Francisco’s Magic Theatre/Campo Santo partnership is heaven-sent. Luckily for us, the Alfaro-Magic...
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‘Seriously insufficient’: Trump cuts to Delta levee repairs could put...
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is proposing to cut the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ construction budget next fiscal year by more than half, a move that could devastate levee restoration projects in the...
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San Jose tightens its mobile park rent control loophole landlords could drive...
SAN JOSE IS UPDATING language in its rent control policy due to mobile home park landlords illegally raising prices on tenants living in RVs. The city’s decades-old mobile home rent policy states...
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Catch Me Up: Daily news roundup for June 30, 2025
This Daily News Roundup is created once every day, based on news articles created by human reporters and editors at Bay City News. For this project, we prompted ChatGPT to analyze the articles...
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Caltrain to raise base fares by 25 cents July 1 as service expands with new...
Caltrain’s base fare will be rising by 25 cents on July 1. The increase will boost adult base fares from $3.75 to $4, and eligible discount rider fares from $1.75 to $2. The oldest continually...
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Leave it to beavers: Fest of ‘misunderstood’ critters attracts celebrants...
NINA KHAN SAYS beavers are “very misunderstood.” Khan arrived at the 16th annual Martinez Beaver Festival with her suitcase in hand after a flight from Chicago to celebrate the largest rodents in...
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Union wants Sheriff Corpus out immediately after civil grand jury levels new...
The San Mateo County deputy sheriff’s union on Monday called for embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus to immediately resign in the wake of a civil grand jury’s accusation of willful or corrupt...
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