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San Leandro police chief placed on leave after hit-and-run charge

Angela Averiett is shown while serving with the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department in Oakland on May 4, 2021. She became San Leandro’s police chief in 2024. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News) San ...
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Family sues PG&E, Alameda County over pipeline blast that destroyed Hayward home

A family whose Hayward-area home was obliterated in a PG&E pipeline explosion last year filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the company, a pair of ...
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SF drug-free housing legislation returns to committee for ‘substantive’ changes

San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey and members of San Francisco’s addiction-recovery community rally in support of legislation to create permanent drug-free supportive housing in San Francisco on ...
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Haney legislation would speed transfer of abused animals into foster, adoptive homes

Assemblymember Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, has introduced legislation aimed at speeding up the transfer of abused animals ...
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Best Bets: Ensemble for These Times, Wreckless Strangers, Inocencio Jiménez Chino, Herbert Blomstedt, Cantare

Ensemble for These Times is more than a group of musicians with a cool moniker: E4TT. The talented Bay Area chamber group ...
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UC medical center and campus workers in Bay Area and across California set to strike

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Preliminary Point-in-Time count shows rise in homeless families in San Francisco

MORE SAN FRANCISCO FAMILIES were experiencing homelessness in 2026 compared to 2024, according to preliminary numbers released by Mayor Daniel Lurie’s More San Francisco families were experiencing ...
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Musk v. Altman — Behind the scenes: How we chose to tell the story of tech titans’ trial

(Those feelings have come back sharply during the Musk/Altman trial. Joe sits one row back from the amazing Vicki Behringer, a well-known Bay Area courtroom sketch artist who Joe profiled in 2022 for ...
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Workers at Planned Parenthood’s largest affiliate weigh joining SEIU Local 521

OVER 400 health care workers at Planned Parenthood’s largest affiliate started voting Monday to decide whether to join a local chapter of Service Employees International Union, known as SEIU. Planned ...
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Coastal septic systems: Marin County revisits rules in West Marin amid a history of hassle

THE LAST THING that comes to mind when visiting the shimmering landscape along Tomales Bay is wastewater, but the people that live and work there think Marin County is revising septic system ...
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Bay to Breakers: BART offering limited-stop early trains to serve runners, spectators

BART announced it will provide four early morning trains with limited stops on Sunday before the Bay to Breakers race kicks ...
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Scammers pose as Monterey County jail staff to seek payments from inmates’ families

Authorities are warning about a scam targeting relatives of inmates at the Monterey County Jail, saying callers posing as sheriff’s employees are demanding payments for fake early-release programs. In ...