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Inquirer Investigation: As Berkeley’s $300 million bond heads toward approval, the record of Measure T1 shows rising costs and pared-back projects
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Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia’s chief executive. Colette Kress steps in as interim CEO, and the board names its first chair
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HUD finalizes a rule requiring every resident of federally assisted housing to verify citizenship or eligible immigration status. What it means for California’s mixed-status families
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Peter Gleick, a Berkeley Ph.D., traces 4,500 years of water and war in a new book, from Sumerian canals to the Owens Valley
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Inquirer Investigation: As Berkeley’s $300 million bond heads toward approval, the record of Measure T1 shows rising costs and pared-back projects
The city says its 2016 bond turned $100 million into more than $183 million of work across 76 projects. Its own reports also show two funding gaps, projects cut to design only, a finish date two years later than the city projected in 2023 and outside reviews that were narrower than the word “audit” suggests.
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Inquirer Investigation: As Berkeley’s $300 million bond heads toward approval, the record of Measure T1 shows rising costs and pared-back projects
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Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia’s chief executive. Colette Kress steps in as interim CEO, and the board names its first chair
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HUD finalizes a rule requiring every resident of federally assisted housing to verify citizenship or eligible immigration status. What it means for California’s mixed-status families
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Alameda’s Planning Board clears a temporary 8,000-seat stadium for the Oakland Roots and Soul at Harbor Bay. What neighbors were told, and what still has to happen
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The state awards $750 million to The Portal, the Caltrain extension into downtown San Francisco. What the money covers, and what is still unfunded
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Rubio and Wang discuss a possible Trump-Xi-Putin meeting on denuclearization ahead of the APEC summit in Shenzhen
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Peter Gleick, a Berkeley Ph.D., traces 4,500 years of water and war in a new book, from Sumerian canals to the Owens Valley
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The water projects bill has passed the House and waits on the Senate. What WRDA 2026 holds for California’s dams, levees and rivers
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Inquirer Investigation: As Berkeley’s $300 million bond heads toward approval, the record of Measure T1 shows rising costs and pared-back projects
The city says its 2016 bond turned $100 million into more than $183 million of work across 76 projects. Its own reports also show two funding gaps, projects cut to design only, a finish date two years later than the city projected in 2023 and…
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The state awards $750 million to The Portal, the Caltrain extension into downtown San Francisco. What the money covers, and what is still unfunded
The award is the largest in this year’s round of state transit grants, but the project’s own funding…
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San Francisco supervisors back home-kitchen permits for street vendors. What the $828 permit would allow, and what it would not
The Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 on Tuesday for a program that would let residents cook at home…
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Lurie and Fielder lay out a $12.25 million plan for the Mission’s BART plazas. Many of the details are still to be decided
A $9.25 million Crankstart gift and $3 million in state money will pay for lighting, ambassadors, safety technology…
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Inquirer Investigation: San Francisco moves to landmark 19 buildings and weigh two historic districts. Owners’ consent is not required
The Board of Supervisors advanced the designations on Tuesday, most of them drawn from a program tied to…
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Alameda’s Planning Board clears a temporary 8,000-seat stadium for the Oakland Roots and Soul at Harbor Bay. What neighbors were told, and what still has to happen
The permit allows up to five years of professional soccer at the clubs’ training ground near Oakland’s airport,…
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Inquirer Investigation: As Berkeley’s $300 million bond heads toward approval, the record of Measure T1 shows rising costs and pared-back projects
The city says its 2016 bond turned $100 million into more than $183 million of work across 76…
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Alameda County tells ICE to stop using Santa Rita Jail as a staging area, citing two incidents in the jail lobby
A Nov. 9 letter from the county’s lawyer invokes its 2026 ICE-free zone ordinance; federal officials have said…
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Oakland extends its pause on new data centers to October 2027
The City Council voted unanimously to stretch a 45-day moratorium by 10 months and 15 days while planners…
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An appeals court lets California’s emissions-reporting law take effect for companies’ own emissions, but blocks the supply-chain and climate-risk rules
A divided Ninth Circuit panel held that SB 253’s Scope 1 and 2 reporting is commercial speech the…
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A Shasta County judge permanently blocks Measure B, the county’s voter ID and hand-count law
Judge Benjamin Hanna ruled that state election law preempts the voter-approved charter amendment; its supporters say they are…
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Inquirer Investigation: Four donors supplied nearly all of the $62 million raised by three tech-funded committees in California’s legislative races
Campaign filings show Chris Larsen, Tim Draper, Meta and Google funded nearly all of Grow California, California Leads…
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Becerra wants to freeze utility bills and home insurance premiums. The power to do it rests mostly with others
The governor-elect’s team says the details are still being worked out; under state law, the Public Utilities Commission…
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The House passes the Major Richard Star Act, 392 to 18, after a discharge petition led by two California Democrats
The bill would let about 59,000 combat-injured veterans who were medically retired before 20 years collect full retired…
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White House counsel tells Rep. Robert Garcia that Oversight investigations must serve a legislative purpose
In a letter to the Long Beach Democrat expected to chair the House Oversight Committee in January, Will…
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The House sends Massie’s Hegseth impeachment articles to committee, 211 to 204. How California’s members voted
All eight California Republicans and Rep. Kevin Kiley voted to refer the articles, 40 of the state’s 43…
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A second Epstein-records petition is two signatures from forcing a House vote as the lame-duck session opens
Forty-two California Democrats have signed Rep. Thomas Massie’s petition for a bill letting states, victims and lawmakers sue…
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The water projects bill has passed the House and waits on the Senate. What WRDA 2026 holds for California’s dams, levees and rivers
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Peter Gleick, a Berkeley Ph.D., traces 4,500 years of water and war in a new book, from Sumerian canals to the Owens Valley
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HUD finalizes a rule requiring every resident of federally assisted housing to verify citizenship or eligible immigration status. What it means for California’s mixed-status families
The rule, effective Dec. 14, makes prorated aid for mixed-status households temporary; HUD says federal law requires the…
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USDA proposes limiting automatic food-stamp eligibility to households on cash welfare. What it could mean for CalFresh
The department says the change would keep benefits for the truly needy and close a path that let…
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The Supreme Court weighs whether the Labor Department can fine farm employers through its own judges, a question for California’s H-2A growers
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What an ‘Inconclusive’ Bullet Comparison Can and Cannot Show in the Robinson Case
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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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Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia’s chief executive. Colette Kress steps in as interim CEO, and the board names its first chair
The Santa Clara chipmaker’s longtime finance chief will run the company while the board searches inside and outside…
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At Sutter Health, nurses put artificial intelligence on the bargaining table
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Nvidia’s board hires Wachtell Lipton for its review of Jensen Huang as shares fall ahead of Nov. 17 earnings
The independent directors retained a former acting U.S. attorney to examine reports that the chief executive was the…
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Commerce extends its pause on the export-control affiliates rule to Jan. 10, keeping a reprieve in place for Bay Area chip-equipment makers
The two-month extension tracks the U.S.-China trade truce; the rule, which the administration says closes a national-security loophole,…
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As AI fortunes multiply ahead of the IPOs, San Francisco family lawyers say the prenup has become part of the wealth plan
Lawyers who draft premarital agreements describe record demand from young couples holding pre-IPO equity, and California’s community-property rules…
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Anthropic’s co-founders plan to sell about $250 million in stock each in the IPO and keep voting control through a single Class F share
Dario and Daniela Amodei, both listed by Forbes as San Francisco residents, would each keep more than 237…
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Two months late, the Opera Ball comes to City Hall on Thursday. The patrons behind San Francisco Opera’s biggest night
Moved from September during the orchestra’s contract talks, the gala that is the largest fundraiser for San Francisco…
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Brian Chesky pledges $100 million to San Francisco parks, the largest gift the city has received from a single donor
The Airbnb co-founder’s commitment will pay first for five projects in SoMa, the Mission, Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill…
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Rubio and Wang discuss a possible Trump-Xi-Putin meeting on denuclearization ahead of the APEC summit in Shenzhen
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ExxonMobil signs a preliminary agreement to weigh a return to Venezuela, nearly two decades after its assets were seized
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U.S. negotiators say they want a ‘final end’ to the war as Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi enter a second day
Secretary Rubio called Tuesday’s session very productive and President Zelenskyy called it constructive, while Russia’s foreign minister rejected…
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Trump says the Iran war is militarily “effectively over” after meeting Qatar’s prime minister, and the naval blockade stays in place
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Inquirer Investigation: As Berkeley’s $300 million bond heads toward approval, the record of Measure T1 shows rising costs and pared-back projects
The city says its 2016 bond turned $100 million into more than $183 million of work across 76 projects. Its own reports also show two funding gaps, projects…
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Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia’s chief executive. Colette Kress steps in as interim CEO, and the board names its first chair
The Santa Clara chipmaker’s longtime finance chief will run the company while the board searches inside and outside for a permanent successor, five days before Nvidia reports quarterly…
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HUD finalizes a rule requiring every resident of federally assisted housing to verify citizenship or eligible immigration status. What it means for California’s mixed-status families
The rule, effective Dec. 14, makes prorated aid for mixed-status households temporary; HUD says federal law requires the change, and its own figures place 36 percent of the…
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Alameda’s Planning Board clears a temporary 8,000-seat stadium for the Oakland Roots and Soul at Harbor Bay. What neighbors were told, and what still has to happen
The permit allows up to five years of professional soccer at the clubs’ training ground near Oakland’s airport, with caps on crowds and hours, shuttles from BART and…
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The state awards $750 million to The Portal, the Caltrain extension into downtown San Francisco. What the money covers, and what is still unfunded
The award is the largest in this year’s round of state transit grants, but the project’s own funding plan already counted on it, and a $587 million gap…
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Rubio and Wang discuss a possible Trump-Xi-Putin meeting on denuclearization ahead of the APEC summit in Shenzhen
The State Department says the two agreed on the value of leader-level talks, including any three-way meeting with Russia; China’s account of the call did not mention it,…
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Peter Gleick, a Berkeley Ph.D., traces 4,500 years of water and war in a new book, from Sumerian canals to the Owens Valley
In “When the Well Is Dry,” the Oakland water scientist follows conflict over water from ancient Mesopotamia to Ukraine’s dams and argues that the same resource can be…
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The water projects bill has passed the House and waits on the Senate. What WRDA 2026 holds for California’s dams, levees and rivers
The House approved the Water Resources Development Act of 2026 by 415 to 9 in September, with every California member who voted in favor; the bill orders faster…
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As AI fortunes multiply ahead of the IPOs, San Francisco family lawyers say the prenup has become part of the wealth plan
Lawyers who draft premarital agreements describe record demand from young couples holding pre-IPO equity, and California’s community-property rules explain why the paperwork has moved from taboo to routine.
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Padilla promises oversight and subpoenas after Trump names Stephen Miller chief of staff, and renews a push to bar presidents from trading stocks
The White House says Mr. Miller drove the administration’s results on crime, the border and fraud; California’s senior senator says Democrats will use investigations and their leverage over…
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The House passes the Major Richard Star Act, 392 to 18, after a discharge petition led by two California Democrats
The bill would let about 59,000 combat-injured veterans who were medically retired before 20 years collect full retired pay and VA disability pay; Republican leaders back their own…
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An appeals court lets California’s emissions-reporting law take effect for companies’ own emissions, but blocks the supply-chain and climate-risk rules
A divided Ninth Circuit panel held that SB 253’s Scope 1 and 2 reporting is commercial speech the state may compel, while Scope 3 reporting and all of…
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The Pass: Four Kings, the Chronicle’s No. 1, runs its Chinatown alley restaurant four nights a week
Franky Ho and Mike Long’s Cantonese restaurant on Commercial Street tops the Chronicle’s Top 100 for 2026, and its business runs on a small room, a three-week booking…
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Inquirer Investigation: Four donors supplied nearly all of the $62 million raised by three tech-funded committees in California’s legislative races
Campaign filings show Chris Larsen, Tim Draper, Meta and Google funded nearly all of Grow California, California Leads and Meta’s own committee; here is where the money went,…
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ExxonMobil signs a preliminary agreement to weigh a return to Venezuela, nearly two decades after its assets were seized
The nonbinding memorandum with PDVSA commits the company to no project; the Trump administration calls it a sign that its Venezuela policy is drawing investment, while Exxon says…
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White House counsel tells Rep. Robert Garcia that Oversight investigations must serve a legislative purpose
In a letter to the Long Beach Democrat expected to chair the House Oversight Committee in January, Will Scharf cites the Supreme Court’s limits on congressional subpoenas; Mr.…
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A Shasta County judge permanently blocks Measure B, the county’s voter ID and hand-count law
Judge Benjamin Hanna ruled that state election law preempts the voter-approved charter amendment; its supporters say they are weighing an appeal and have 30 days to decide.
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At Sutter Health, nurses put artificial intelligence on the bargaining table
Pickets at 13 Northern California facilities this week list limits on what the union calls untested AI alongside staffing and retention; Sutter says talks are at an early…
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USDA proposes limiting automatic food-stamp eligibility to households on cash welfare. What it could mean for CalFresh
The department says the change would keep benefits for the truly needy and close a path that let households above federal income and asset limits qualify; its own…
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Alameda County tells ICE to stop using Santa Rita Jail as a staging area, citing two incidents in the jail lobby
A Nov. 9 letter from the county’s lawyer invokes its 2026 ICE-free zone ordinance; federal officials have said local refusals to honor detainers are what push immigration arrests…
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