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Pass the Remote: Escape with streaming holiday selections, entertaining new...
Thanksgiving isn’t only about family, food and football. It also can be a great escape from reality, a needed time to just chill out at home and watch a movie, series or short film. To accommodate that...
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San Jose’s LGBTQ+ community grapples with Torres scandal, perpetuation of...
THE ALLEGATIONS WERE hard to believe.Initial reports of a child sex abuse investigation into San Jose Councilmember Omar Torres reeked of a political smear to his supporters, who had yet to see key...
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Bay Area will have something to look forward to on Thanksgiving — a reprieve...
An extended period of rain that has seen some parts of the Bay Area receive nearly two dozen inches of precipitation in the last week is expected to end just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday,...
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No crab by Christmas? Commercial fishermen pessimistic as start of season...
The commercial Dungeness crab fishing season in Northern and Central California has been delayed for a second time, until at least mid-December, by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.The...
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Review: Visitors to San Francisco’s 500 Capp Street gallery in may get lost...
The problem with a spiral is that it’s too easy to get lost in it. That happened to several patrons at the opening of artist-in-residence yétúndé ọlágbajú’s exhibition “a spiral fuels and fills” on...
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Interfaith Winter Shelter program returns for season, expanding SF’s shelter...
San Francisco has opened its Interfaith Winter Shelter for the season.Now in its 36th year, the program officially operates through March 30 and will increase San Francisco’s shelter capacity from 30...
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Sonoma County Transit continues transition to all-electric fleet; 7 new buses...
Sonoma County supervisors have approved the purchase of seven all-electric, locally made transit buses at a net cost of $1.2 million.The buses will replace natural gas-powered buses in the current...
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As torrential rains soak state, farmworkers await flood aid they were...
AFTER FLOOD WATERS from heavy rainstorms deluged two small farmworker towns in early 2023, California set aside $20 million each for the communities to rebuild. Nearly two years since the floods,...
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SF parking meters free for Thanksgiving, but don’t expect any Black Friday...
San Francisco’s parking enforcement will take the day off Thursday for Thanksgiving but be back to work — mostly — on Black Friday.For the holiday, parking regulations will not be enforced anywhere in...
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Burn the turkey, but not your wood fireplace: District issues holiday air...
Bay Area Air Quality Management District regulators are asking people not to burn wood during the Thanksgiving holiday to help reduce air pollution and protect public health.The air district made the...
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Newsom appoints judges to fill vacancies on Alameda, Santa Clara county...
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced three judicial appointees and the nomination of a fourth affecting Alameda and Santa Clara counties.Charles A. Smiley, an Alameda County Superior Court judge since 2012,...
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Mark Purdy details 49ers dramatic history in fun, fact-filled coffee-table book
Retired newspaper sports columnist Mark Purdy has cowritten a comprehensive book about the San Francisco 49ers. (Courtesy Reedy Press) Mark Purdy, the award-winning former sports columnist for the...
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San Carlos council declares no confidence in Sheriff Corpus, seeks immediate...
San Carlos has become the first city in San Mateo County to call for embattled Sheriff Christina Corpus to step down after the City Council unanimously took a position of no confidence in the...
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San Jose hits some homelessness goals, misses others: ‘We can and will do more’
SAN JOSE IS inching toward its housing and homelessness goals, but still has a ways to go before it can shelter thousands of unhoused residents.The city released its latest annual homelessness report...
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Best Bets: Christmas in the Park, ‘Waitress,’ Scrooge, sock skating,...
The 50-foot Community Giving Tree is a centerpiece of San Jose’s three-pronged downtown holiday celebration. (Christmas in the Park via Bay City News)Freebie of the week: San Jose takes this whole...
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Judge dismisses majority of charges against Gaza protesters who disrupted...
A San Francisco judge has dismissed most of the charges against an activist group arrested in April for a protest that shut down morning commute traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge.Judge Brendan P....
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Tracy Avelar named Pleasanton police chief, held distinguished career with...
Pleasanton has a new police chief.The city this week announced the hiring of Tracy Avelar as its new chief. Her first day on the job will be Dec. 9.Avelar brings more than 20 years of law enforcement...
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Check out downtown Campbell for dining, drinking, shopping and fascinating...
Campbell, in the Santa Clara Valley between San Jose, Santa Clara and Los Gatos, may be a bit hard to find. But for travelers driving along state Highways 17 and 85, it may be worth a detour to...
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‘A betrayal of public trust’: Monterey County deputy accused of hiding...
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office will continue an internal investigation into a deputy accused of concealing a weapon and committing criminal conspiracy inside the jail even though the District...
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Animal groups push back on federal plan to kill 500,000 barred owls,...
Two animal welfare organizations have filed a federal lawsuit to stop the hunting of a half-million barred owls across several states, including in federal parks and monuments, three of which are in...
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