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As wildfires burn, a corruption probe left the Senate’s insurance committee...
AS FIRES RAGE through Southern California and exacerbate the state’s insurance crisis, the California Senate has no one in charge of its Insurance Committee due to questions surrounding a federal...
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California has more money than expected. Here’s how Gavin Newsom wants to...
No deficits. A “modest” surplus of $363 million. Almost $17 billion more in revenue than planned.Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office laid out its vision today for how California should spend its considerable...
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Richmond secures $9.5M grant to upgrade streets and boost pedestrian, bicycle...
The City of Richmond has been awarded a $9,559,482 federal grant to improve its streets, U.S. Rep. John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, and Mayor Eduardo Martinez announced last week.Improvements will include...
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Pass the Remote: More gender-nonconforming cinema at BAMPFA, resistance films...
LGBTQ historian and filmmaker Jenni Olson follows up last year’s massively popular “Masc: Trans Men, Butch Dykes and Gender Nonconforming Heroes in Cinema,” a program she co-curated with journalist,...
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All hands on deck: Bay Area’s response to LA fire zone expands as losses top...
Just because the Bay Area isn’t suffering though massive wildfires doesn’t mean its firefighters aren’t hard at work.The Alameda County Fire Department has sent more firefighters to battle the...
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Volunteers sought for Santa Clara County PIT count of people experiencing...
There’s an opportunity to begin the new year doing something for one of Santa Clara County’s most vulnerable populations: People experiencing homelessness.The county’s 2025 HUD Point-In-Time Count will...
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Sonoma County supervisors vote to protect rights of undocumented residents...
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has pledged to protect the civil rights of the county’s immigrants against stepped-up federal immigration enforcement.Supervisors of Friday approved a resolution...
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Algorithmic pricing under fire as Feds expand lawsuit against corporate San...
LANDLORDS WITH TIES to Silicon Valley have been targeted by the U.S. Justice Department in its growing effort to to stop property owners from using tech software to influence rent prices.Federal...
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Bay Area shelters take in pets from Los Angeles County to help overwhelmed...
Shelters from around the greater Bay Area are taking in cats and dogs that were previously housed in Los Angeles-area shelters in an effort to free up space for pets displaced or rescued from...
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San Francisco Symphony premieres John Adams’ fourth piano concerto featuring...
David Robertson, conducting the world premiere of John Adams’ piano concerto “After the Fall” in Davies Symphony Hall this week, is taken by how the esteemed Bay Area composer was influenced by...
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‘It’s like a cat and mouse’: RV dwellers facing displacement as SJ begins...
SAN JOSE HAS begun temporarily banning RVs in designated areas across the city this week.Under a $3.3 million pilot program, Oversized and Lived-In Vehicle Enforcement (OLIVE), the city has chosen 30...
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Asian zither masters unite for one-of-a-kind Stanford concerts
Award-winning performer-composer-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ’s Stanford Live “Harps of Asia” concerts with three renowned Asian zither masters this week represent the culmination of a 20-year...
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Santa Clara County to acquire Regional Medical Center for $150M, restore key...
An agreement for the sale of the Regional Medical Center in Santa Clara County has been reached following months of concern about the area losing important trauma services. On Monday, the county...
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San Mateo County seeks its next poet laureate, deadline for application extended
A self-described “recovering engineer,” a teacher and others have served as San Mateo County’s Poet Laureate — and now, the city is looking for someone new to fill the role.The deadline to apply to...
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U.S. Department of Education honors SJSU for equitable efforts to foster...
SAN JOSE STATE University is one of the inaugural winners of a new U.S. Department of Education honor recognizing colleges and universities with a track record of enrolling a diverse student body and...
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Alameda supes move forward with Oakland Coliseum sale to local development group
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors marked the end of an era when it voted unanimously this week to move forward with the sale of its ownership share of the Oakland Coliseum to a private developer,...
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‘Building bridges’ moment: CoCo supes start 2025 with Scales-Preston’s...
Shanelle Scales-Preston took the oath of office Tuesday as Contra Costa County’s new District 5 supervisor, becoming the first African American woman elected to the county’s Board of...
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How developer fees contribute to delays on infrastructure improvements San...
HOUSING AND BUSINESS developers in San Jose avoid building public improvements by paying fees to the city, but this often leads to infrastructure projects slowing to a crawl.Developers are typically...
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Oakland judge postponed Musk suit against OpenAI even as interest in the case...
A federal judge in Oakland has postponed a hearing on Elon Musk’s attempt to prevent OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence models, from shedding its status as a nonprofit...
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Best Bets: ‘Dinner Date,’ Porchlight at SF Sketchfest, Isabel Hagen, Saratoga...
Musician Marc Capelle is in the lineup of 10 artists joining a Porchlight storytelling session at a Jan. 17 SF Sketchfest show at the Great American Music Hall. (Courtesy Lenny Gonzalez) SF Sketchfest...
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