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‘No One in Public Media Is Safe’: KQED Layoffs Underscore Peril of Federal Defunding
The Bay Area station is cutting 15% of its staff and bracing for the loss of federal support — a sign, experts say, of deeper problems in U.S. public media’s fragile funding model.

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Tentative Deal Reached to End Bay Area Trash Strike, Teamsters Say
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Democrats Plotting a Path Out of The Political Wilderness
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San Francisco's Newest Picnic Spot Comes With a View of the Golden Gate Bridge (and Accessible Tables)
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Bay Area Organizer Gets Extended Reprieve From ICE Detention
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'No Sanctuary Anywhere': Border Patrol Raids Strike Heart of California Capitol
Bonta Sues Trump (Again), This Time for Torching Disaster Prep in Crisis-Prone Summer
With New 'Razor Blade Throat' Nimbus Variant, Bay Area COVID Levels Now Higher Than Winter Peak
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Getting Sneezier? Blame Climate Change for Making Fungal Allergy Season Longer
‘Eddington’ Is an Incoherent Covid-Era Satire About Our Broken Brains
‘Black Spaces’ at the Oakland Museum Meditates on Displacement and Reclamation
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After Sudden Grant Cancellations, Humanities Funding is Back — Kind Of
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Housing Affordability

‘Do You Want Help?’: Inside Orange County’s Bet on Voluntary Mental Health Care

In Orange County, where the local CARE Court refuses to force people with psychosis into treatment, one social worker drove 30,000 miles last year searching for unhoused clients with schizophrenia — asking if they want help, again and again and again.

California Forever Wants to Build a Manufacturing Town

Company executives say a proposed manufacturing site will provide space for start-ups focused on robotics, defense tech, advanced transportation and other industries only a couple hours away from Silicon Valley.

150,000 People Live in Unincorporated Alameda County. What Does That Mean for Them?

Alameda County’s unincorporated areas, like Ashland and Cherryland, recently received rental protections their neighbors have long enjoyed.

SF Just Voted to Ban Long-Term RV Parking. What Happens to the People Inside?

San Francisco voted to ban long-term RV parking citywide, putting hundreds of vehicle dwellers at risk of displacement and raising urgent questions about where they’ll go next.

Immigration

Bay Area Organizer Gets Extended Reprieve From ICE Detention

Bay Area immigrant and community organizer Guillermo Medina Reyes wins a temporary reprieve from ICE detention as a federal judge reviews his case amid increased immigration enforcement and protests in San Francisco.

'No Sanctuary Anywhere': Border Patrol Raids Strike Heart of California Capitol

The Border Patrol began conducting operations in Sacramento on Thursday, as two federal court rulings have ordered them to stop warrantless raids.

Trump Officials Want Big Changes at Alcatraz. The Presidio Is a Different Story

In a San Francisco visit, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said the Presidio’s financial independence should be a model for public lands — a far cry from how Trump described it earlier.

Burgum, Bondi Tour Alcatraz to Launch Trump Plan to Reopen Site as Federal Prison

The Trump administration is pushing to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, a move that would require repealing national park protections and transferring control from the Department of the Interior to the Bureau of Prisons.
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Tentative Deal Reached to End Bay Area Trash Strike, Teamsters Say

As residents in multiple Bay Area cities report reduced services, union representatives say the company is threatening to cancel striking workers’ health care benefits.

‘No One in Public Media Is Safe’: KQED Layoffs Underscore Peril of Federal Defunding

The Bay Area station is cutting 15% of its staff and bracing for the loss of federal support — a sign, experts say, of deeper problems in U.S. public media’s fragile funding model.
Two men wearing jackets and the man on the right wearing a black hat stand near each other talking.

Democrats Plotting a Path Out of The Political Wilderness

San Francisco's Newest Picnic Spot Comes With a View of the Golden Gate Bridge (and Accessible Tables)

It's tough to snag one of those picnic tables at Crissy Field, but a new alternative just opened down the street at Tunnel Tops Park's Outpost Meadow.

Bay Area Organizer Gets Extended Reprieve From ICE Detention

Bay Area immigrant and community organizer Guillermo Medina Reyes wins a temporary reprieve from ICE detention as a federal judge reviews his case amid increased immigration enforcement and protests in San Francisco.

'No Sanctuary Anywhere': Border Patrol Raids Strike Heart of California Capitol

The Border Patrol began conducting operations in Sacramento on Thursday, as two federal court rulings have ordered them to stop warrantless raids.

California Parole Officer Is Shot, Killed in East Oakland Office Building

The man who was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder was reportedly paroled in January after serving more than two years for a stabbing near the Lakeshore area.
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