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Can a big box retailer be too big? SJ residents say planned Costco doesn’t...
WEST SAN JOSE residents say their community isn’t the place for a massive Costco warehouse and its inevitable impact on traffic safety.The Planning Commission is set to certify an environmental impact...
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A’s hosting last home game at Oakland Coliseum Thursday before move to...
The Oakland A’s on Thursday are ending more than a half-century of playing baseball at the Coliseum with one final home game.The A’s host the Texas Rangers in a day game scheduled for 12:37 p.m. The...
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‘Whatever it takes’: Breed deploys task force to stabilize ailing SFUSD,...
San Francisco will offer staff expertise and $8.4 million in unallocated funds to help stabilize the city’s troubled public schools.The announcement by Mayor London Breed came as the San Francisco...
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Volunteers bag more than 250,000 pounds of trash during California Coastal...
Thousands of volunteers flocked to the California coast and waterways this past Saturday to participate in the 40th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day.The cleanup, which is largest single-day...
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Hooked on Books: In the forests of Norway, a Future Library grows; Litquake...
Boy, can that Pulitzer and Booker Prize finalist Tommy Orange keep a secret—for his entire lifetime. The Oakland native, who first gained fame with his 2019 novel “There There” and followed it up with...
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Security boosted at all levels of government as officials prepare for...
Election officials and poll workers around the country are readying for the Nov. 5 general election in six weeks with the same unease felt ahead of an impending storm. On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Alex...
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Proposition B backers rally for what they say is way to improve San Francisco...
Hundreds of people, including San Francisco’s mayor, current and former supervisors, health care workers and older adults from the Asian American and Pacific Islander community stood side by side at...
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Pittsburg council OKs $2.1M in loan, grant to jumpstart construction of hotel...
The Pittsburg City Council last week approved loaning the developer of a future hotel up to $1.5 million to facilitate construction.The action also approved a grant up to $599,999, as long as it is...
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California acts to protect children from ‘addictive’ and ‘destructive’ social...
Ratcheting up efforts in California to protect children from the negative effects of social media, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed landmark legislation to combat the powerful “addictive” strategies tech...
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Oakland Theater Project stages classic ‘Angels in America’ in Marin Shakes’...
Oakland Theater Project is revisiting Tony Kushner’s multi-award-winning, two-part AIDS-era-set “Angels in America” in a new location in Marin. Calling the show “a grand, American classic,” Michael...
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Students navigate redundant and convoluted career education path. Newsom...
THE TOWN OF Reedley has about 25,000 people — and five different public institutions that offer career education to its residents. There’s the high school, the adult school, the community college, the...
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Farewell cheers and jeers: A’s win final game at Oakland Coliseum in front of...
Oakland is losing the Athletics after this year but got to celebrate one last win Thursday with the A’s 3-2 victory over the Texas Rangers in front of a sellout crowd that came to witness the final...
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‘Motivated by jealousy’: El Cerrito man gets life for murdering co-worker on...
An El Cerrito man who killed his San Francisco Conservation Corps co-worker in 2019 has been sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for the crime, prosecutors said.Hakim Oden, 25, had initially...
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Jackson Demonstration State Forest in Mendocino closes campgrounds, roads for...
All campgrounds and roads in Jackson Demonstration State Forest, with few exceptions, have been closed for the season, said Cal Fire, the agency that manages the forest. The annual closures in...
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Suspect finally arrested in San Jose homicide case that had authorities...
A cold case team of San Jose homicide detectives and Santa Clara prosecutors reopened a 37-year-old killing and arrested a man who was 18 at the time.Once the suspect was identified, police didn’t have...
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Who will succeed Dan Kalb? Three candidates make pitch for Oakland City...
A firefighter, a certified public accountant and a bread-making stay-at-home dad are running to replace Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb in the Nov. 5 general election.Kalb, who isn’t running for...
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Union says food service giant Aramark won’t meet health care obligations...
The union representing Oakland Coliseum food service workers alleges that their employer is refusing to provide already accrued health care benefits after the A’s baseball team leaves town.Unite Here...
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Two Stockton improvement projects dealt setbacks over errors with bidding...
THE STOCKTON CITY COUNCIL recently voted unanimously to withdraw a bid for Victory Park renovations and reject all proposals for the Channel Street Corridor after errors plagued both projects.Both city...
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New California law gives more response time to tenants facing eviction amid...
Tenants in California will have twice as much time to respond to eviction notices and potentially avoid losing their homes under a bill signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week.The new law comes...
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Living ‘on the tattered edge’: Silicon Valley sees highest food stamp levels...
IT’S A TALE of two worlds in Santa Clara County — one of affluence and one of survival, as thousands of residents struggle to put food on the table.Participation in CalFresh is at its highest level in...
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