Amid Oakland City Hall turmoil, a devastating budget crisis still looms
OAKLAND — There was already plenty of cause for stress at City Hall before a series of FBI raids in Oakland last week cast a shadow over Mayor Sheng Thao and …
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Fewer California farmworkers are migrants
As a young woman in the late 1980s, María Inés Catalán joined a gushing stream of laborers from Mexico chasing seasonal crops in California, following the footsteps of her mother …
Livermore City Council declines to send contested affordable housing project to public vote
Livermore residents may not get to vote on a bitterly contested affordable housing project after all. After a court decision appeared likely to send the project before voters this November, …
Weekend heat wave to cool down by Monday
The National Weather Service said a heat wave peaking Saturday will give way to slightly cooler Bay Area weather on Sunday that will continue into early next week. “We should …
Bay Area home prices spike 12% in May, approach all-time high
After median home prices in two Bay Area counties shot past the $2 million mark earlier this year, buyers might be forgiven for thinking the local real estate market had …
Fremont trans woman shares journey, honored by lawmaker
As a child, Jenna Daugherty would dress up in her sister’s and mother’s clothes around the house. But it wasn’t until she was 16, then a male student at Fremont …
Who are the Duongs? Family schmoozed politicians
OAKLAND — For years, Andy Duong enjoyed a prolific gift for political schmoozing. The “public relations agent” for a family-owned West Oakland recycling business jetted to the Philippines with California …
Alleged crime ring shipped high-end bikes stolen in Silicon Valley to Mexico, sold them on Facebook
Lennart van den Ende, an avid cyclist and product leader for San Jose technology giant Cisco, was excited to learn that a man who tracks stolen bicycles found the two …
AT&T must keep providing landline service, regulator rules
State utility regulators Thursday unanimously shot down a massively unpopular proposal by AT&T to scrap landline service for most of the Bay Area and much of California that critics would …
San Jose approves sanctioned encampment plan for 500 homeless people near waterways
The San Jose City Council has agreed to an ambitious plan to move about 500 homeless people living along waterways to sanctioned encampment sites throughout the city by the middle …