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‘Economic spillover of events is real’: Return of Campbell concerts boosts...

CAMPBELL IS READY TO GROOVE again after one of the region’s largest free summer concert events was canceled last year. The annual Campbell summer concert series is returning this year after downtown...

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‘Insult to injury’: Civil grand jury examines Oakland’s ticketing of stolen...

THE CITY OF OAKLAND has issued hundreds of tickets to abandoned vehicles that were reported stolen, creating a problem for both the victims of the crime and the city, according to an Alameda County...

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Cashless bail making a comeback? Why some in Santa Clara County are...

DUELING FORCES could swing Santa Clara County’s jail population back and forth, as officials look to revive zero cash bail and move those numbers down. County leaders recently mulled over the idea at...

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‘American Nightmare’ kidnapper sentenced for separate 2015 San Ramon abduction

A MAN WHOSE ABDUCTION of a Vallejo woman led to the “American Nightmare” Netflix documentary series was sentenced to at least seven more years in prison for a separate case involving the kidnapping of...

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‘I’m about to kill someone’: Antioch police release body cam video of deadly...

Newly-released body camera footage shows the tense moments leading up to the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man by Antioch officers last month. Police on Thursday provided the video and more details...

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Oakland airport name saga resumes; leaders try again to add San Francisco Bay...

The saga of what to call the airport formerly known as “Oakland International” continued Thursday when yet another name was thrown into the ring. Oakland’s Board of Port Commissioners, which runs the...

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San Jose State University scores 5-star rating in national rankings, praised...

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY is among the best public colleges in the U.S., according to recent rankings. Money magazine has given San Jose State University a five-star rating in its 2025 Best Colleges...

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Fund proposed to provide payments to wrongfully evicted Russell City residents

FORMER RESIDENTS OF RUSSELL CITY, a once-thriving African American and Latino community on the Hayward shoreline, could soon receive payments for being run out of their homes in the 1960s thanks to a...

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8 critical insights: How U.S. healthcare policy threatens global vaccine...

NEARLY 35 U.S. STATES are grappling with outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough. A recent American Community Media (ACom) press briefing highlighted concerns from...

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Calistoga councilmember, also a broker, accused in lawsuit of financial elder...

A Calistoga city councilmember is being sued for allegedly “cajoling” an 84-year-old woman in cognitive decline to take on a loan that he and his business benefited from financially, according to a...

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Gutted at federal level, AmeriCorps program struggles to continue mission at...

ON THURSDAY, California Attorney General Rob Bonta visited what was left of an AmeriCorps program at the Bel Aire Park Elementary School in Napa. The 32-year-old federal civilian service agency had...

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Yolo fireworks victims ID’d, including 4 from Bay Area; families seek help on...

The Yolo County Sheriff’s Office has released the names of the seven people — including four from the Bay Area — who died in a massive explosion and fire at a fireworks storage facility earlier this...

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Nomination period opens for Sonoma County’s November special district elections

Nominations open Monday in Sonoma County for various special district offices, the county said.  The open seats are as follows: Two four-year seats with the Occidental Community Services District Two...

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ODC/Dance’s San Francisco summer premieres explore grief, time  

ODC/Dance Fellow and former Co-artistic Director KT Nelson was trying to make sense of the sudden death of her husband in December 2023 when not long thereafter, troupe artistic director Brenda Way...

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Presidio Parkway turns 10: Leaders celebrate infrastructure success, unique...

THE CELEBRATION OF PRESIDIO PARKWAY’S 10th anniversary in San Francisco was marked by the unveiling of a commemorative plaque, speeches by local leaders, and a collective sense of success between...

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Movies: 45th SF Jewish film fest, ‘Dogs Tonight,’‘Unicorns,’‘To a Land...

Summer moviegoing doesn’t have to mean blockbuster sequels or reboots, and that’s especially true in the Bay Area, where independent cinema thrives. Here’s what’s going on this week:   San Francisco...

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Bill to give slavery descendants preference in college admissions advances in...

A BILL THAT WOULD give California colleges and universities an option to provide preference in admissions to descendants of slavery has cleared the state’s Senate Education Committee with a 5-2 vote...

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Catch Me Up: Daily news roundup for July 14, 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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Santa Clara to begin overnight roadwork on Great America Pkwy, Mission...

The City of Santa Clara announced that pavement restoration work will begin July 14 along Great America Parkway and Mission College Boulevard as part of a scheduled improvement project.  O’Grady...

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‘Sinful, filthy, dirty’: Pelosi slams Trump’s Medicaid cuts in SF talk on...

HOUSE SPEAKER EMERITA NANCY PELOSI and the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium, a partnership of nonprofit community health centers, held a virtual briefing this week on federal impacts to local...

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