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Mercury News

5 surprises inside California’s population losses

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F. and New York each pledged to end traffic deaths. Why is N.Y. making more progress?

San Francisco Examiner

Here's when MTC hopes to have Bay Bridge bike path done

Mercury News

The Bay Area’s hottest holiday gift? This sold-out ugly BART sweater could be it.

San Francisco Standard

SF’s Car-Free Embarcadero Plan Has Some Shop Owners in a Tizzy

Curbed

Make 2023 the Year of the Bus

Mercury News

San Jose housing and retail transit village may sprout near Japantown

Mercury News

Oakland is the first in the Bay Area to win the state’s ‘pro-housing’ designation

Marin Independent Journal

Marin median home price falls to $1.535M, even with prior year

Gilroy Dispatch

Agency mulls Gilroy’s annexation request

San Jose Spotlight

Silicon Valley offices less empty than other regions

San Francisco Chronicle

Ninth Circuit condemns EPA’s approval of chemical that kills bees — but allows its continued use

Local News Matters

An illuminating debate: Dark sky advocates take aim at harmful effects of light pollution

Berkeleyside

Bay Bridge bike path on track for 2030

Marin Independent Journal

Golden Gate Bridge board selects new location for San Rafael Transit Center

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F. will remove parking spaces obstructing Muni bus stops sooner than expected. Here’s when it will start

San Jose Spotlight

Santa Clara County VTA service review long overdue

East Bay Times

California jaywalking laws are changing on Jan. 1, here’s what you need to know

Local News Matters

California regulators energize EV adoption with new mandate to add charging stations

New York Times

They Dispense Street Justice, One Defaced License Plate at a Time

Mercury News

Gas prices haven’t been this low since July 2021

San Francisco Chronicle

This Bay Area county just became the nation’s first to prohibit criminal background checks on tenants

Cal Matters

California accounts for 30% of nation’s homeless, feds say

East Bay Times

Now hiring: $140,000 job comes with San Francisco waterfront views, room and board — but there’s a catch

San Francisco Chronicle

Winter Solstice: These photos show the Bay Area during the darkest days of the year

San Francisco Chronicle

MyShake app woke people hundreds of miles from California quake epicenter with shrill alarm

Mercury News

'We were ready’: California ShakeAlert warns 3 million ahead of Tuesday’s big quake in biggest test yet

San Francisco Chronicle

Why the next big Bay Area earthquake could happen on a fault many don’t even know exists

East Bay Times

$36.5 million from Monsanto water pollution settlement headed to Bay Area cities, Alameda County

New York Times

Our Favorite 2022 Climate Coverage. (Some of It’s Even Good News!)

San Francisco Chronicle

COVID in California: CDC urges all holiday travelers to mask up as infection soars

KTVU

This Bay Area transit system has almost perfect satisfaction rating

Mercury News

Why a new stoplight in San Jose’s Japantown is worth celebrating

San Mateo Daily Journal

Fed funding halted for Half Moon Bay Main Street Bridge

Bloomberg

When Buses Are Free But Trains Aren’t

San Mateo Daily Journal

San Mateo County awards $54M in housing grants

San Francisco Standard

Just One Bay Area City is Pro-Housing So Far, State Says

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F.’s Fillmore district is the latest neighborhood in revolt over homelessness

Marin Independent Journal

Editorial: Binford Road vehicle camp shows different aspect of homelessness crisis

Mercury News

Big industrial center in south San Jose gets OK for construction

Fairfield Daily Republic

Christmas spending trend well above 10-year annual rate

San Francisco Chronicle

.4-magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California, cutting power to 70,000

Marin Independent Journal

Marin officials air lingering concerns on Highway 37 plan

Local News Matters

BART encourages bicyclists to use mobile app for bike parking at stations

San Francisco Chronicle

First came JFK Drive and the Great Highway. Now car-free advocates are eyeing this iconic S.F. boulevard

San Francisco Examiner

Cruise under federal probe, closer to S.F. expansion in whirlwind week

Local News Matters

Proposed Highway 239 would improve travel in eastern Contra Costa; public can comment

San Jose Spotlight

‘People are dying on our roads’: San Jose unsafe for bicyclists

San Francisco Chronicle

Stalled S.F. housing sites are creating eyesores with tents, dumping and drug use. The ‘mess’ could last years

Mercury News

Biden administration plans to cut homelessness 25% by 2025

Berkeleyside

Taller than the Campanile: Downtown project grows to 317 feet

San Mateo Daily Journal

San Mateo County adopts housing plan

New York Times

What comes next for the emptiest downtown in America?

San Francisco Chronicle

Shoppers crowd Union Square amid comeback for S.F. retail magnet

San Francisco Standard

Laid-Off Tech Workers Are Bracing For a Difficult Future

San Francisco Chronicle

The Bay Area is still cold. But a big warm-up is coming ahead of Christmas

Capital Radio

Coalition of tribes, government agencies unite to restore California's giant sequoia population

New York Times

Your Neighborhood’s Emissions

San Francisco Chronicle

Cruise poised to offer driverless taxi rides to all of San Francisco, 24-7. Here’s what to expect

Governing

Transit-Oriented Planning Grants Begin to Change Cities

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