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Cal Matters

‘Godzilla next door’: How California developers gained new leverage to build more homes

San Francisco Chronicle

This out-of-state location saw the largest pandemic spike in new residents from S.F.

San Francisco Chronicle

YIMBYs love to hate her. Inside one Bay Area mayor’s anti-housing campaign

Mercury News

Owning a home in the Bay Area now costs twice as much as renting

Marin Independent Journal

Lucas Valley housing proposal asserts ‘builder’s remedy’ option

San Mateo Daily Journal

Foster City passes housing element

Bloomberg

Buying a Home in California Is Already Hard. State Farm’s Exit Makes It Harder.

Mercury News

Tech cluster emerges at huge revamped industrial complex in Oakland

SF Gate

Pixar reportedly conducts rare layoffs, including 'Lightyear' director

SF Gate

Chance of rain, 'heavy downpours' head toward San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Examiner

SF Bay Ferry rebound continues as Bay Area transit faces choppy waters

San Francisco Examiner

BART fare evasion study to examine police targeting of Black riders

San Francisco Standard

San Francisco Officials Make Last-Ditch Effort To Block Robotaxi Deployment

Mercury News

The do’s and don’ts of legal and safe lane splitting: Roadshow

Sonoma Index-Tribune

Editorial: A bike lane or Peet’s parking lot?

San Francisco Standard

San Francisco No Longer Most Expensive Bay Area City for Renters

San Francisco Chronicle

Yet another home insurance giant quietly stops writing new policies in California

San Mateo Daily Journal

$5 million fast tracks plans for coastal homes in Half Moon Bay

San Francisco Chronicle

‘Is this street going to be dead?’ Inside one of the last big stores in a famous S.F. retail hub

CNN

Meta asks office workers to return to in-person work

San Francisco Chronicle

Unusually large group of killer whales is hunting off California’s coast. Their method is ‘pretty brutal’

San Francisco Chronicle

It was the most controversial land-use debate in Napa history. Now, Walt Ranch has been sold

Government Technology

California Transit Is Barreling Toward a Fiscal Cliff, Officials Warn

KQED

What's With the Golden Gate Bridge Look-Alike in Lisbon?

KQED

Are Zero-Emission Vehicles Making a Dent in California's Air Pollution?

Mass Transit

BART’s Not One More Girl initiative moves to Phase 2

Mercury News

Beach traffic turns Highway 17 into a mess again: Roadshow

SF Gate

Vault lights in San Francisco sidewalks could completely disappear one day

San Francisco Standard

Homes Under Sutro Tower: First Look at New Twin Peaks Housing Plan

Berkeleyside

Berkeley’s population is rebounding faster than almost any other Bay Area city

Local News Matters

UC Berkeley continues with People’s Park student housing development despite continued resistance

SF Gate

Consequences mount as Palo Alto's housing element hangs in limbo

State of California

California Awards Nearly $40 Million for Communities to Build Industries of the Future

SF Gate

SF Travel launches $6M ad campaign with first-ever commercial, starring local talent

San Francisco Chronicle

Listen: A tale of 2 downtown businesses, one shuttering, one opening

San Francisco Examiner

How Breed's budget proposal would close SF's $780 million deficit

East Bay Times

Bay Area tech layoffs top grim milestone after jobs cuts by Meta, Nuro, others

Associated Press

Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says

San Francisco Chronicle

'Giant' 5,000-year-old tooth was found on California beach. Here's what we know

Press Democrat

A massive kelp forest once anchored the North Bay’s marine ecosystem. Here’s how scientists are trying to bring it back

Sonoma Index-Tribune

Where are the ‘heat islands’ in Sonoma Valley?

Cal Matters

California transit systems’ pleas for aid haven’t moved the Capitol

Mercury News

California lawmakers urge transit bailout, pushing back on Newsom’s proposed budget cut

San Francisco Standard

‘Do or Die Moment’: Coalition Calls for State Bailout of Public Transit

KPIX

Lawmakers urge additional funding for Bay Area transit agencies

San Francisco Standard

Three Great Bay Area Hikes Accessible by Public Transit

Mercury News

San Jose airport soars back to key passenger milestone as rebound extends

Mercury News

What’s with the overnight work on I-680? Roadshow

Associated Press

The easiest way to get a $7,500 tax credit for an electric vehicle? Consider leasing.

Smart Cities

Shared micromobility boosts job access when linked with public transit: report

Cal Matters

Tax on short-term rentals like Airbnb could fund California affordable housing

East Bay Times

Can ‘social housing’ help solve California’s housing crisis?

San Francisco Chronicle

SF wasn’t only city to see exodus

San Francisco Examiner

Breed wants to add 600 homeless shelter beds in SF budget amid deficit

San Jose Spotlight

San Jose housing left out of state environmental reform

New York Times

A Take of Paradise, Parking Lots and My Mother’s Berkeley Backyard

New York Times

Imagine a Renter’s Paradise. It Might Look Like Vienna.

Mercury News

Downtown San Jose lands several new merchants as area rebound sprouts

SF Gate

Google offloading 1.4 million square feet of Bay Area office space

Press Democrat

Sonoma County Open Space District in contract to buy Bodega Bay ranch for future park

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