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Civic life
DVC Launches Compass Mentorship as Court Halts DHS Student Rule
Diablo Valley College has rolled out its Compass Mentorship program pairing first-year students with experienced peers who have…
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Bay Area Election Chiefs Challenge Federal Voter Roll Demands
Contra Costa County Clerk-Recorder and Registrar of Voters Kristin B.
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Concord Weighs $17.4M Upgrade for Police HQ and Emergency Center
The Concord City Council is considering a $780,242 construction management contract with Cumming Group and $1.53 million in fund…
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Walnut Creek Sets Nov. 11 Veterans Day Ceremony at Lesher Center
The City of Walnut Creek will hold its annual free Veterans Day ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 11, from 11 a.m. to noon at the Lesher…
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Billionaires Spend $300M Against Prop. 40 as Feds Probe SFUSD Course
Campaign finance filings show California billionaires have spent roughly $304 million opposing Proposition 40 and backing competing…
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Menlo Park Downtown Housing Plan Faces Up to $45M Funding Gap
Menlo Park’s plan to partner with Related California to build at least 345 affordable apartments on three downtown parking lots faces…
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King Tides Flood Mill Valley Roads After Golden Gate Bridge Crash
King Tide flooding closed portions of Miller Avenue, Camino Alto, and the Redwood Highway frontage road in Mill Valley on Tuesday…
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Alameda Delegates Reflect on Boys & Girls State as Altarena Opens
Nine Alameda high school seniors sponsored by American Legion Post 647 shared insights from the California Boys & Girls State civic…
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Defense Grills FBI Agent in Ex-Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Trial
As the federal corruption trial of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and her partner Andre Jones entered its second week Tuesday,…
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UC Berkeley Engineers Show Hula Hooping Relies on Full Lower Body
A new study in Nonlinear Dynamics by UC Berkeley mechanical engineering researchers Oliver O’Reilly, Chrystal Chern, and Theresa…
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Martinez Announces Marina Closures for King Tides Through January
The City of Martinez has announced temporary daytime closures at the Martinez Marina and Waterfront Park for five extreme high tide…
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Hops & Scotch Closes at Avalon as Lesher Center Unveils Holiday Lineup
Hops & Scotch Taproom & Whiskey Bar has closed after more than eight years at Avalon Walnut Creek on Treat Boulevard, even as…
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Bipartisan House Pledge Urges Lawmakers to Seat Midterm Winners
Among the eight Republicans and one Republican-caucusing independent in California’s U.S.
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Sonoma County Drone Settlement Sets Warrant Rules After ACLU Suit
Sonoma County’s recent settlement of a 2025 ACLU of Northern California lawsuit over hundreds of warrantless code-enforcement drone…
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Pittsburg Council Votes Unanimously for 45-Day Data Center Pause
Following a heated public hearing and demonstrations outside City Hall, the Pittsburg City Council voted unanimously to impose an…
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Delta View Golf Course Data Center Expansion Paused 45 Days
Pittsburg residents protesting the Avaio data center project at the former Delta View Golf Course urged the City Council to…
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CSU Faculty Union Opens Strike Authorization Vote Through Nov. 19
The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors and university employees across the California State University…
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Experts Warn of AI Disinformation Targeting Immigrant Voters
As the Nov. 3 midterm elections approach, researchers from the National Conference on Citizenship, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and…
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UC Berkeley Joins California-Israel Natural Science Grant Program
UC Berkeley has partnered with nonprofit California-Israel Collaborations in Research, funded by the Koum Family Foundation and the…
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DeSaulnier Objects to DOJ Demand Over 400 Contra Costa Ballots
U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (D-Walnut Creek) objected to U.S.
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Contra Costa and Four Bay Area Counties Vote Nov. 3 on $980M Annual Regional Transit Tax
On Nov. 3, voters across Contra Costa, Alameda, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties will decide on the Regional Transit…
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Community
Kayaker Films Great White Shark Near Half Moon Bay; SFDanceworks
Kayak fisherman David Slavich captured dramatic footage of a 6-to-7-foot great white shark circling his boat off Pillar Point in Half…
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49ers Trade Fourth-Round Pick to Colts to Reacquire DeForest Buckner
The San Francisco 49ers agreed Tuesday to send a fourth-round draft pick to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for 32-year-old Pro…
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Oakland Roots Fall 3-2 in Finale as Piedmont Opens NCS Playoffs
Oakland Roots SC saw its USL Championship playoff hopes end in a 3-2 regular-season finale defeat at Sacramento Republic FC despite…
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Richmond’s Temple Beth Hillel Celebrates 80th Anniversary
Current and former members of Temple Beth Hillel gathered Saturday in Richmond to celebrate the Reform congregation’s 80th anniversary…
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Cal Women’s Soccer Falls 3-1 to SMU Despite Early Van More Goal
Sophomore Mia Van More gave Cal women’s soccer a 1-0 halftime lead with a fifth-minute goal, but SMU rallied with three second-half…
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Wheelchair Basketball Builds Community at California Medical Facility
Launched publicly in late 2022 at the California Medical Facility, a wheelchair basketball program unites able-bodied and disabled…
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Berkeley Lab Scientists Build Machine Learning Radiation Blood Test
Researchers Jian-Hua Mao, Jamie Inman, and Hang Chang at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed Sparse CBC, an…
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14th Annual Napa Valley Give!Guide Launches Nov. 1 With 98 Nonprofits
The 14th annual Napa Valley CanDo Give!
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Contra Costa Nonprofit Grants Antioch Vietnam Veteran and Wife One More Safari West Adventure
Arranged by Contra Costa County nonprofit An Elderly Wish Foundation, 82-year-old Vietnam War veteran Jim Ledbetter and his wife, Lynn…
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Weather & safety
Berkeley Police Make Two Hit-and-Run DUI Arrests in Three Hours
Berkeley police arrested two motorists on suspicion of felony hit-and-run and driving under the influence within three hours Monday…
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UC Berkeley Study Questions Police Drone Claims as Hearings Heat Up
As nearly 60 California law enforcement agencies operate drone programs and cities including Berkeley and San Francisco hold mandatory…
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AC Transit Closes 14th Ave. Stop on Line 96 Oct. 27–28 for Construction
Due to non-AC Transit construction, AC Transit will close the Line 96 stop at 14th Avenue and International Boulevard (Stop ID 54845)…
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California Coalition Launches Whale and Dungeness Crab Initiative
The Marine Mammal Center, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, and The Nature Conservancy have launched the…
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High Tides Prompt Flood Advisory Along San Pablo Bay Through Saturday
The National Weather Service has issued a coastal flood advisory through Saturday for low-lying bayshore locations along San Pablo Bay…
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Caltrans Closes Highway 37 Between Mare Island and Sears Point for El Niño Storm Prep
Caltrans closed Highway 37 in the North Bay between Mare Island and Sears Point from Friday night through early Monday morning so…
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Chevron Richmond Refinery Sulfur Release Topped Six Times State Limit, Air District Says
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District reported that hydrogen sulfide levels from the Chevron Richmond Refinery reached more…
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Business
California and FTC Sue Dollar General Over Checkout Price Overcharges
California joined the Federal Trade Commission and 19 other states on Tuesday in a federal lawsuit filed in the U.S.
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Putter’s Mini Golf in Walnut Creek to Close Nov. 29 for Housing
Putter’s Mini Golf at 1275 S.
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Things to do
Chabot Space & Science Center Hosts Third Annual Science Drag Show
Chabot Space & Science Center hosted its third annual space-themed show “Science is a Drag!”
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Berkeley Theaters Stage Fall Lineup With Under-35 Ticket Deals
Berkeley theater companies—performing locally since 1957—are staging four fall and winter productions across Shotgun Players, Berkeley…
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Fruitvale Día de los Muertos Festival Set for Nov. 1 in Oakland
Oakland’s annual Día de los Muertos Festival returns to Fruitvale Transit Village on Sunday, Nov. 1, featuring a 34-foot La Catrina…
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Children’s Fairyland Stages Indigenous Puppet Show Through Nov. 29
Children’s Fairyland in Oakland has partnered with the urban Indigenous women-led Sogorea Te’ Land Trust to present the puppet show…
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ASUC SUPERB Hosts Free Votechella Concert on Upper Sproul Plaza
Hundreds of UC Berkeley students packed Upper Sproul Plaza and the Mario Savio Steps on Friday for Votechella, a free afternoon…
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Isaac Cruz’s Two Pick-Sixes Power Napa High Past Previously Unbeaten San Rafael, 41–13
Senior defensive back Isaac Cruz returned two third-quarter interceptions for touchdowns of 41 and 74 yards and senior linebacker Alan…
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Real Estate
California Builds 692,000 Homes Since 2019 Yet Lags Annual Need
State housing director Gustavo Velasquez told the Little Hoover Commission that more than 692,000 homes have been built in California…
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