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Bosa is back, Buckner is home, and the Raiders visit the Bay Area for the first time since leaving Oakland
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Inquirer Investigation: The Justice Department’s new election-crime cases in California, charge by charge
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In Sheng Thao’s corruption trial, the defense spends a day testing the government’s central witness
Mario Juarez, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and is cooperating with prosecutors, faced about six hours of cross-examination…
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Voters reject Prop. 45’s CEQA overhaul, and both sides turn to the Legislature
The Associated Press called the measure Saturday evening, with unofficial returns showing about 56 percent of voters opposed to a California Chamber…
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California Democrats flipped five House seats under the new map. What the delegation looks like in January
The Associated Press awarded Democrats the House on Nov. 3. In California, the party has been declared the winner in five seats…
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Inquirer Investigation: The Justice Department’s new election-crime cases in California, charge by charge
On Nov. 2 the department announced charges involving 63 people nationwide, including 12 lawful permanent residents in two California federal districts. The…
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The Senate’s first test of the permitting deal comes Monday. What it would change for California projects
Senators are scheduled to vote about 5:30 p.m. Eastern on whether to begin debate on a bipartisan package that would rewrite environmental reviews, shorten lawsuit windows and require large data centers to pay for the power they use.
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Bosa is back, Buckner is home, and the Raiders visit the Bay Area for the first time since leaving Oakland
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The Senate’s first test of the permitting deal comes Monday. What it would change for California projects
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Inquirer Investigation: The Justice Department’s new election-crime cases in California, charge by charge
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California Democrats flipped five House seats under the new map. What the delegation looks like in January
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Voters reject Prop. 45’s CEQA overhaul, and both sides turn to the Legislature
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In Sheng Thao’s corruption trial, the defense spends a day testing the government’s central witness
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Voters approved Lurie’s three charter changes. Here is what shifts at City Hall, and when
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Panetta presses the Postal Service over a Brookdale post office closed since a 2024 fire
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The Senate’s first test of the permitting deal comes Monday. What it would change for California projects
Senators are scheduled to vote about 5:30 p.m. Eastern on whether to begin debate on a bipartisan package that would rewrite environmental reviews, shorten lawsuit windows and require large data centers to pay for the power they use.
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Voters approved Lurie’s three charter changes. Here is what shifts at City Hall, and when
San Francisco voters backed Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Propositions D, E and F, which raise the bar for local…
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Valkyries parade Wednesday: street closures, Muni changes, robotaxi limits and the open question of cost
San Francisco will close much of the Embarcadero and South Beach on Wednesday for the Golden State Valkyries’…
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Prop. G and the Great Highway: what Tuesday’s vote would do, and who is paying for each side
San Francisco’s Proposition G would reopen the Upper Great Highway to cars on weekdays and keep Sunset Dunes…
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Inside the contract chain that put ICE vehicles in a city-owned garage
Federal parking at San Francisco’s Golden Gateway Garage came through a private operator and the General Services Administration,…
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In Sheng Thao’s corruption trial, the defense spends a day testing the government’s central witness
Mario Juarez, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and is cooperating with prosecutors, faced about…
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Oakland reaches tentative deals with two city worker unions, heading off a Nov. 5 strike
Oakland’s tentative three-year agreements with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 would raise wages 9 percent without…
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San Jose’s police chief says he knew of a license plate data inquiry when he told the council the system was secure
Chief Paul Joseph, responding for the first time to criticism over a March assurance about the city’s Flock…
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Inquirer Investigation: Measure Q campaign videos were filmed inside a Richmond fire station. What the law says, and what the filings show
A Richmond attorney has asked prosecutors and the state’s ethics agency to review four Yes on Q videos…
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Voters reject Prop. 45’s CEQA overhaul, and both sides turn to the Legislature
The Associated Press called the measure Saturday evening, with unofficial returns showing about 56 percent of voters opposed…
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Newsom orders a Highway 1 task force and suspends some environmental rules for El Niño flood work
Two executive orders signed Oct. 27 set a Dec. 15 deadline for a plan to protect Highway 1…
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Inside the consultant travel that preceded the high-speed rail chief’s exit
An Inquirer Investigation reads the inspector general’s report behind Ian Choudri’s resignation, which found the rail authority paid…
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State tells Menlo Park it must revisit its housing plan if voters pass Measure P
In a letter sent four days before the election, the state housing department said the parking-lot measure would…
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California Democrats flipped five House seats under the new map. What the delegation looks like in January
The Associated Press awarded Democrats the House on Nov. 3. In California, the party has been declared the…
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HHS finalizes rule excluding gender dysphoria from Section 504 disability protections
The department says the rule applies an exclusion Congress wrote into law in 1990 and 1992, while disability…
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CMS announces $233.6 million for rural health in California, an award first made public last year
A federal release on Oct. 29 highlights California’s share of the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, money…
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CMS opens $275 million program to pay nurses to work in nursing homes
The Trump administration’s Nurses for Nursing Homes initiative lists about 780 California facilities as eligible, more than any…
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The Senate’s first test of the permitting deal comes Monday. What it would change for California projects
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Appeals court expedites EPA’s bid to treat California clean-air waivers as rules Congress can overturn
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FEMA housing aid for LA fire renters has ended as California seeks more federal recovery money
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Inquirer Investigation: The Justice Department’s new election-crime cases in California, charge by charge
On Nov. 2 the department announced charges involving 63 people nationwide, including 12 lawful permanent residents in two…
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FDA proposes new nutrient limits for infant formula, its first broad update since 1998
The proposal would raise the minimums for iodine and vitamin D and cap manganese for the first time,…
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Judge’s order limits federal demands on election workers through Nov. 16, and the Justice Department appeals
A San Francisco federal judge temporarily barred the Justice Department and Homeland Security from threatening election workers with…
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CDC will require U.S.-bound air passengers to attest they have not been in Congo
Starting with flights that depart late on Nov. 3, travelers bound for San Francisco International and every other…
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What an ‘Inconclusive’ Bullet Comparison Can and Cannot Show in the Robinson Case
The A.T.F. could not match the fatal bullet to the rifle prosecutors say Tyler Robinson used. Here is…
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2028 or 2029? A Judge Weighs When Tyler Robinson Will Be Tried
Prosecutors proposed a January 2028 trial; the defense asked for late 2029. Judge Tony Graf is expected to…
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Online Investigators Have Theories About the Robinson Case. Here Is How They Compare With the Record.
Podcasters and citizen sleuths have built big audiences around the prosecution in the Charlie Kirk killing. Some raise…
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Where the Robinson Case Stands, and the Open Questions About the Evidence
Tyler Robinson has been ordered to stand trial in the killing of Charlie Kirk, but there is no…
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How a $24 million price gap ended Covenant’s 24-year run screening passengers at SFO
Federal contract records, a state layoff notice and a rejected bid protest show how the Transportation Security Administration…
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Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at about $115 billion
The Santa Clara chipmaker is betting that pairing its electrical connectivity chips with San Jose-based Lumentum’s lasers and…
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Anthropic’s IPO filing shows $16.3 billion in half-year revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss
A close read of the San Francisco AI company’s S-1 finds revenue up 1,300 percent, a loss driven…
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Dropbox and Front file notices for 110 San Francisco layoffs as Bay Area tech cuts outpace 2025
State filings show 57 Dropbox jobs and 53 at the customer-service software maker Front ending in the city,…
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The AI super PAC Greg Brockman helped launch has taken in no new donations since February, filings show
Leading the Future, which received $25 million from the OpenAI president and his wife, reported no contributions for…
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Joe Gebbia’s Eames museum plan for Novato puts a quiet patron in the spotlight
The Eames Institute, which counts the Airbnb co-founder as a founding donor, has filed plans for a 185,000-square-foot…
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Max Levchin’s Affirm becomes Sam’s Club’s exclusive pay-over-time provider
The San Francisco lender, founded and run by Max Levchin, returns to the Walmart family of stores 19…
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The Baszuckis’ $20 million bet on metabolic psychiatry
The philanthropy of Roblox founder David Baszucki and author Jan Ellison Baszucki is paying for a new McLean…
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Qatar steps up mediation between Iran and the U.S. as Rubio says talks have “never stopped”
Qatari mediators spent three days in Tehran and Doha on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,…
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Inside the $2.1 billion Patriot sale to Ukraine that allies, not U.S. taxpayers, will fund
A State Department notice to Congress for 500 PAC-3 MSE interceptors, paid for by Canada, Germany, Norway and…
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Israel’s election count puts Netanyahu’s bloc ahead but short of a majority
With more than half the ballots counted, neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition nor Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition bloc…
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Flávio Bolsonaro drops call to annul Brazil’s election, vows abuse-of-power case against Lula
Brazil’s electoral court says a late two-hour voting extension did not change the result. President Trump, pointing to…
Latest News
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Bosa is back, Buckner is home, and the Raiders visit the Bay Area for the first time since leaving Oakland
The 6-1 49ers host the 4-4 Raiders at 1:25 p.m. Pacific on Sunday at Levi’s Stadium, the clubs’ first regular-season meeting in Santa Clara since 2018.
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The Senate’s first test of the permitting deal comes Monday. What it would change for California projects
Senators are scheduled to vote about 5:30 p.m. Eastern on whether to begin debate on a bipartisan package that would rewrite environmental reviews, shorten lawsuit windows and require…
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Inquirer Investigation: The Justice Department’s new election-crime cases in California, charge by charge
On Nov. 2 the department announced charges involving 63 people nationwide, including 12 lawful permanent residents in two California federal districts. The defendants are presumed innocent.
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California Democrats flipped five House seats under the new map. What the delegation looks like in January
The Associated Press awarded Democrats the House on Nov. 3. In California, the party has been declared the winner in five seats Republicans held, while unofficial returns in…
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Voters reject Prop. 45’s CEQA overhaul, and both sides turn to the Legislature
The Associated Press called the measure Saturday evening, with unofficial returns showing about 56 percent of voters opposed to a California Chamber of Commerce-backed rewrite of the state’s…
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In Sheng Thao’s corruption trial, the defense spends a day testing the government’s central witness
Mario Juarez, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and is cooperating with prosecutors, faced about six hours of cross-examination on Friday in the federal trial…
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Voters approved Lurie’s three charter changes. Here is what shifts at City Hall, and when
San Francisco voters backed Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Propositions D, E and F, which raise the bar for local ballot measures, give the city administrator more control over contracting…
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Panetta presses the Postal Service over a Brookdale post office closed since a 2024 fire
Nearly two years after a fire shut the only post office in the Santa Cruz Mountains town of Brookdale, Rep. Jimmy Panetta is asking the Postal Service to…
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Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at about $115 billion
The Santa Clara chipmaker is betting that pairing its electrical connectivity chips with San Jose-based Lumentum’s lasers and optics will win the next phase of the AI data…
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Newsom orders a Highway 1 task force and suspends some environmental rules for El Niño flood work
Two executive orders signed Oct. 27 set a Dec. 15 deadline for a plan to protect Highway 1 and let local agencies seek waivers of the state’s environmental…
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Oakland reaches tentative deals with two city worker unions, heading off a Nov. 5 strike
Oakland’s tentative three-year agreements with SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 would raise wages 9 percent without new employee pension or health contributions, ending a strike threat…
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Valkyries parade Wednesday: street closures, Muni changes, robotaxi limits and the open question of cost
San Francisco will close much of the Embarcadero and South Beach on Wednesday for the Golden State Valkyries’ championship parade, and the city has not said what the…
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How a $24 million price gap ended Covenant’s 24-year run screening passengers at SFO
Federal contract records, a state layoff notice and a rejected bid protest show how the Transportation Security Administration chose a new screening contractor for San Francisco International Airport,…
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Shirin Neshat brings a film trilogy rooted in a Bay Area tragedy to Rome
“Do U Dare!”, the Berkeley-trained artist’s meditation on Nasim Aghdam, who opened fire at YouTube’s San Bruno headquarters in 2018, opens at Rome’s MAXXI museum on Nov. 13…
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Barbara Lee asks Oakland for a full term, and for a stronger mayor’s office
Eighteen months after she was elected to finish a recalled mayor’s term, the Berkeley-trained social worker faces three challengers on Tuesday’s ranked-choice ballot alongside Measure EE, which would…
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Kiley campaign’s demand to pull “Duck” ad frames the final stretch of the CA-6 race against Pan
Rep. Kevin Kiley, who left the Republican Party in March, says a Democratic-aligned ad wrongly suggests President Trump endorsed him this year. Outside groups have reported about $7.3…
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State tells Menlo Park it must revisit its housing plan if voters pass Measure P
In a letter sent four days before the election, the state housing department said the parking-lot measure would force Menlo Park to reopen a certified housing plan that…
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Joe Gebbia’s Eames museum plan for Novato puts a quiet patron in the spotlight
The Eames Institute, which counts the Airbnb co-founder as a founding donor, has filed plans for a 185,000-square-foot design museum on the former Birkenstock campus while saying little…
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Inquirer Investigation: Measure Q campaign videos were filmed inside a Richmond fire station. What the law says, and what the filings show
A Richmond attorney has asked prosecutors and the state’s ethics agency to review four Yes on Q videos shot in Fire Station 66. The firefighters’ union says it…
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McClintock bill to preempt sanctuary policies awaits a House vote, with San Francisco’s police grants at stake
The Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act would override local limits on cooperation with ICE and redirect federal law enforcement money from jurisdictions that keep them. Supporters call it…
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