

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. […]
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 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. […]





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. […]
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. […]
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. […]





























