Today’s Edition
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As San Francisco’s jail count falls, the sheriff’s overtime bill reaches $62 million
Four months after a civil grand jury warned that the city’s jails were at a breaking point, payroll data, budget records and official responses show that a court ruling has…
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California’s own software flagged 28,000 Medi-Cal providers as high risk. It followed up on about 2,000.
A new state audit, two federal inspector general reports and the health department’s own figures show how Medi-Cal’s fraud defenses have not kept pace with a program that now costs…
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Marin supervisors to weigh limits on immigration agents’ use of county property
A policy before the board on Tuesday would bar federal agents from staging on county land, but a coalition of residents says only a binding ordinance will do.
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Philippines summons China’s ambassador over remark that Beijing could ‘easily win’
Manila’s formal rebuke of Ambassador Jing Quan deepens a war of words between Beijing and a U.S. treaty ally, a dispute of particular interest in California, home to more than…
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California Democrats press Education Department to restore funds shifted away from Hispanic-serving colleges
A letter signed by both of California’s senators and four Bay Area House members argues the department had no authority to redirect mandatory grants Congress set aside for minority-serving institutions,…
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California’s tax on software subscriptions leads $14.3 billion in new levies, taxpayer group says
A California Tax Foundation tally finds that Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature approved 67 tax and fee increases over the two-year session, led by a law that extends the…
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Bay Area giants face a high-stakes earnings week after a tech sell-off
Netflix reports on Tuesday, days after announcing about 1,000 job cuts, and Meta, Tesla and Lam Research follow on Wednesday, as investors weigh what the artificial intelligence build-out is costing…
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San Francisco supervisors weigh labor deals whose cost would reach $384 million a year
Six contract extensions on Tuesday’s agenda would give more than 22,000 city employees 12 percent raises through 2031 and a no-layoff pledge through mid-2029, and the controller estimates the added…
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Poll finds deepening national gloom two weeks before midterms, raising the stakes in California’s House races
An NBC News survey puts President Trump’s approval at a second-term low of 34 percent as Californians begin returning ballots in a handful of districts that could help decide control…
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Oakland to review $300,000 hotel-tax payout to Roots for hosting Australia’s World Cup team
A city report set for a public hearing on Tuesday says the subsidy paid for itself, as June hotel-tax receipts rose about $343,000 above a baseline, though it does not…
