Racing in wine country: Local favorite Larson tries to defend title as NASCAR...
Motorsports enthusiasts from around the world will take over wine country when NASCAR returns to Sonoma Raceway this weekend. This marks the 35th year NASCAR has raced at Sonoma. It’s also the only...
View ArticleMayor Lurie cuts ribbon on Bayview’s first electric vehicle fast-charging...
A sizeable crowd gathered in the parking lot of San Francisco’s Bayview Plaza Shopping Center, where attendees celebrated the first fast-charging stations for electric vehicles to come to the city’s...
View ArticleHow Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ could impact local hospitals and nursing...
THE PINCH OF MEDICAID CUTS in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” of tax and spending measures will be felt in nursing homes and hospitals in rural and underserved communities, including...
View ArticleX marks the spot: Award-winning thrillers from the past decade
Fan of thrillers? Here’s a handy list of International Thriller Writers’ recent award winners: (Courtesy Flatiron Books) 2025“The Last One at the Wedding” by Jason Rekulak Frank Szatowski is shocked...
View ArticleOne woman’s legacy: Honoring trailblazing theoretical physicist Mary K....
MARY K. GAILLARD, a pioneering theoretical physicist whose mathematical predictions helped shape the Standard Model of particle physics and who defied gender barriers in a male-dominated field, died...
View ArticleCongress is targeting UC Berkeley and other California colleges in...
A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE trying to root out antisemitism in higher education across the country is continuing to scrutinize California universities. On June 26, the committee sent a letter to the...
View ArticleMan accused of killing Oakland father after July 4th party was a close...
Oakland police have identified a man they suspect in the shooting death of a father of two following a Fourth of July party at the victim’s house. Dwane Stewart, 40, was arrested Sunday on suspicion...
View ArticleApple rescues Cupertino’s transit project
A SIGNIFICANT WEST VALLEY interstate project was about to be abandoned. Then a tech giant stepped in with millions of dollars. Cupertino, in collaboration with VTA and Caltrans, can move forward with...
View ArticleContra Costa launches basic income program, but eligibility rules could leave...
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a guaranteed income pilot program aiding 178 people over 18 months. Contra Costa Thrives will provide unconditional cash payments...
View ArticleGrowing pains: Marin County agriculture crop values see smallest...
The value of Marin County’s agricultural production keeps falling, but county leaders say there’s still cause for celebration. The county’s agricultural production was valued at $83.8 million for...
View ArticleCalifornia Highway Patrol to equip all 7,600 officers with body cameras
THREE YEARS AFTER CalMatters’ reporting revealed that only 3% of California Highway Patrol officers wore body cameras, one of the state’s largest police forces plans to equip all its officers with the...
View ArticleMays still amazes: Atherton honors legacy of Giants baseball star in town he...
WILLIE MAYS was one of the all-time baseball greats. And although he’s been gone a year — Mays died in June 2024 at age 93 — there are still many ways to remember him in the Bay Area. Start with the...
View ArticleReview: SF Playhouse’s delightful, Shaw-forward ‘My Fair Lady’ a treat for...
Forget the simmering romance that you might think of when you remember the 1964 movie musical “My Fair Lady.” Think instead of “Pygmalion.” San Francisco Playhouse’s altogether delightful current...
View ArticleFamily of Atherton bicyclist killed in collision with garbage truck files...
IN A ROOM SO QUIET the air felt like it stood still, Kristy Roos-Taylor and her husband held back tears as the family announced a lawsuit against the garbage collection service GreenWaste Recovery...
View ArticleTake it to the house: New building reforms remove hurdles to San Jose...
SAN JOSE OFFICIALS are celebrating the rollback of a long-standing environmental law, which has been a hurdle for housing production. Gov. Gavin Newsom on June 30 signed two bills, Senate Bill 131 and...
View ArticleCatch Me Up: Daily news roundup for July 11, 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...
View ArticleBay Area jurisdictions expand legal fight against Trump sanctuary crackdown
A GROWING NUMBER OF BAY AREA jurisdictions, including Marin County and the cities of Berkeley, Palo Alto, Santa Rosa, and Petaluma, have joined a nationwide lawsuit led by San Francisco and Santa...
View ArticleMedi-Cal cuts in GOP budget bill could deal $1B blow to Santa Clara County...
CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS’ “big, beautiful bill” could deal a bleak, brutal blow to Santa Clara County’s public hospital system — the second largest in the state after expanding just months ago....
View ArticlePublic invited to weigh in on design themes for new I-5 viaduct across...
Caltrans is inviting the public to help choose the aesthetic theme for a major bridge replacement project along Interstate 5 in Stockton. The agency launched a public survey to gather feedback on...
View Article‘Ambassador for his species’: Parasite claims SF Zoo’s endangered Himalayan...
Tenzing, a 12-year-old male red panda known for his playful charm and viral antics, has died at the San Francisco Zoo and Gardens after a rapid decline in health caused by a parasitic infection, zoo...
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