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Oakland Roots players on the field in front of the club's supporters section during a match.

Oakland to review $300,000 hotel-tax payout to Roots for hosting Australia’s World Cup team

A Golden State Warriors game at Chase Center in San Francisco, seen from the upper deck.

Warriors open the season with Porzingis out indefinitely and a smaller lineup in his place

Levi's Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, in Santa Clara.

Unbeaten 49ers host Washington as Brock Purdy nears the top of the NFL’s passer-rating list

The Golden State Valkyries' court at Chase Center in San Francisco, seen from the upper deck before a game.

Valkyries take Game 1 of the WNBA Finals as Gabby Williams carries a cold-shooting offense

The Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse, a tall modernist office tower on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco

Saudi consulate offers to cover bail for former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging executives

A white multistory apartment building with curved bay windows on a San Francisco street near the Bay Bridge.

San Francisco supervisors set to vote on barring evictions over small rent debts

A red-and-white Muni articulated bus on route 38R travels along Geary Boulevard at 15th Avenue in San Francisco's Richmond District, with cars and storefronts behind it.

San Francisco speed cameras cut excessive speeding 84 percent, city report finds

San Francisco school board votes to replace enrollment lottery with neighborhood schools

San Francisco pauses new data centers as Lurie signs 45-day moratorium

Pelosi declines to endorse Wiener, widely seen as a stunning rebuke

The ornate granite tower of Oakland City Hall against a deep blue sky, with a California flag below.
Around the Region

Oakland city workers authorize a strike as deficits narrow the room for a deal

Members of SEIU Local 1021 voted 95 percent in favor of letting their bargaining team call a walkout, raising the prospect of Oakland’s first municipal strike since 2017 as the city confronts nine-figure budget gaps. […]

The twin beige towers of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in downtown Oakland against a blue sky with wispy clouds.
Around the Region

Sheng Thao’s bribery trial opens in Oakland with a fight over the government’s star witness

In the first week of the federal case against Oakland’s former mayor, prosecutors described a pay-to-play scheme, defense lawyers attacked the government’s cooperating witness and Ms. Thao’s former chief of staff took the stand. […]

Oakland City Hall seen from Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Around the Region

Oakland wins $600,000 settlement for underpaid workers at airport Radisson

The agreement, which awaits a final City Council vote on Oct. 20, would return every dollar of back wages the city says 128 hotel employees were owed, plus interest, under Oakland’s voter-approved hotel minimum wage. […]

An aerial view of office buildings and a parking structure in Santa Clara, California.

Santa Clara’s Cloudera barred from green-card sponsorship program for two years

A view across Silicon Valley toward downtown San Jose, with Apple Park at left.

Chip stocks’ eight-day slide tests Silicon Valley, and California’s budget

Caribou Biosciences to close Berkeley site as Bay Area biotech retrenchment deepens

Appeals court throws out class certification in Tesla self-driving case

Trump may appoint Melania as ‘United States Ambassador for Global Textile Recycling’

People gather outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento, lit in blue and yellow, for a rally marking the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Trump shelves new Russia sanctions, and California lawmakers join a bipartisan outcry

An official election ballot drop box in Mendocino County, California.

Justice Department sues to stop California from counting 20,000 mail ballots

Shooting at an Oregon elementary school kills three children and a teacher, reviving a West Coast debate over guns

Ring Energy (REI) is expected to surge above $2 a share by week’s end

Mattias Wallander: a Danish sex cult’s man in America who operates near you

Official portrait of California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Bonta settles with Fidelity’s crypto arm over limits on withdrawing coins

Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta at a 2025 state ceremony

California joins states pressing for child-safety terms in Character.AI’s bankruptcy sale

California’s billionaire tax could pass and still fail, as rival measures loom over Proposition 40

California files its 100th lawsuit against the Trump administration, targeting ICE arrests at courthouses

Federal indictment of Newsom’s former chief of staff implicates high-profile Democrats

Traffic on Interstate 80 in Fairfield, Solano County, California.

Federal regulators examine Fairfield crash in which a Tesla driver said he was asleep

Entrance to the Leo J. Ryan Memorial Federal Building in San Bruno, home of the National Archives at San Francisco

As records begin leaving San Bruno, California’s National Archives lawsuit faces a slow federal calendar

Suspicious letters reach Bay Area congressional offices as federal inquiry widens

Federal plan tying transit aid to birth and marriage rates clouds Bay Area rail funding

Fearing Chakrabarti’s surging campaign, AIPAC props up Connie Chan’s stalking horse campaign with big money

The Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse, a tall modernist office tower on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco
Foreign Affairs

Saudi consulate offers to cover bail for former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging executives

A defense filing says the kingdom’s consulate will pay any bond a judge sets for Abdulrahman Alfozan, drawing a foreign government into a San Francisco case that federal officials have cast as a matter of national security. […]

The glass-and-steel Endeavor building at Nvidia’s headquarters campus in Santa Clara, California, with an Nvidia sign at the entrance.
Foreign Affairs

Beijing and Taipei tighten technology export rules, and the Bay Area takes stock

China proposed controls on 40 artificial intelligence, biotech and solar technologies on Friday as Taiwan said it would criminalize unauthorized AI chip shipments to China, moves that reach from Santa Clara chip designers to South San Francisco drug developers. […]

The Strait of Hormuz, connecting the Gulf of Oman with the Persian Gulf, seen from orbit
Foreign Affairs

Attacks in the Strait of Hormuz intensify, threatening California’s fragile relief at the pump

Eight strikes on merchant ships in three days have kept traffic through the world’s most important oil chokepoint far below prewar levels, just as Bay Area gas prices had begun to ease. […]

  • Oakland to review $300,000 hotel-tax payout to Roots for hosting Australia’s World Cup team
  • Warriors open the season with Porzingis out indefinitely and a smaller lineup in his place
  • Unbeaten 49ers host Washington as Brock Purdy nears the top of the NFL’s passer-rating list
  • Valkyries take Game 1 of the WNBA Finals as Gabby Williams carries a cold-shooting offense
  • Oakland city workers authorize a strike as deficits narrow the room for a deal

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