The proposed legislation exempts certain housing projects from some of the rules laid out by the California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA.

A Black family moved into their new Livermore home in 1971 — and discovered a wall on their land. What followed was a 50-year battle for justice.

The new policy requires that one- to four-unit buildings undergo upgrades that reduce planet-warming emissions around the time a structure is sold.

In a 100-day “progress report” address on Thursday, Lurie noted a drop in crime and increased collaboration on combating homelessness and the city’s drug crisis.

Pope Francis, a progressive voice for the Roman Catholic Church who advocated for migrants and the marginalized, “was unique among popes,” Oakland Bishop Michael Barber said.

She never suspected anything was wrong. Then she applied for her passport and realized the papers that would prove she was a citizen were not just missing — they had never existed in the first place.

Los Alegres del Barranco will likely have to cancel its California concerts after the State Department revoked the band’s visas for extolling “criminals and terrorists.”

At least 17 California colleges face federal probes into antisemitism, including a Department of Justice investigation of the UC system’s treatment of Jewish employees.