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Police thought they had caught a car thief in San Francisco. Instead, they had mistyped his license plate number, a watchdog agency said, then arrested him with excessive force.

A strengthening El Niño could bring the highest sea levels ever recorded to the California coast this year, raising the risk of widespread and damaging flooding.

“Elias Vance,” a fictional Georgia high school history teacher created by artificial intelligence. (Why is he walking toward the wall instead of the door?) A while ago, a friend reposte…

Republicans’ fixation on the dog voter — and the voter ID measure they say it justifies — echoes President Donald Trump’s claims about the need for stricter voting requirements.

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John Yoo, a conservative law professor known for his views on presidential power, confirms he will advise a team investigating whether officials conspired against Donald Trump

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The protests, raising concerns about conservation, transparency and the project’s ties to the Trump family, began Sunday in the Albanian capital, Tirana.

A 27-hour Clipper outage last month brought down BART ticket vending machines and caused delays at fare gates.

The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Netflix business model is brilliant if all customers are like us. We got a DVD of several Samuel Beckett plays (part of an Irish-British TV project, “Beckett on Film”) about a month…

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who exposed the reach of migrant child labor during the Biden administration weighs in on gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra’s role and responsibility in the ...

In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...

The White House has told Western states it's working on a 10-year plan for the overtapped Colorado River that will allow for reassessing cutbacks every two years.

Foggy Interstate 40 on the western outskirts of Amarillo, November 2025. Kate and I stopped overnight in Amarillo, on the plains of the Texas Panhandle, a few nights before Thanksgiving last fall. …

Officials have secured about $800 million but still need billions more to build the first phase, leaving commuters with no clear timeline for relief.

More Americans are turning to the train as gas prices reach their highest point since the war in Iran began. Brightline, the privately-run railroad in Florida, had its best month ever in March.

A look at the Bay Area’s top 10 traffic choke points shows a recurring theme: traffic patterns from workers commuting south for jobs in tech or aerospace.

2,476 likes, 20 comments - kqednews on March 26, 2026: "George A. Wyman was a Hayward native, born in 1877, who at the age of 26 made what is said to have been the first trip across the United States ...

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 3/9/2026 topic: I'l...

All nine counties of the Bay Area had robust streetcar systems at the start of the 20th century. In the East Bay, rumors swirl about how and why the Key System failed.

Years after big changes, BART is still really loud. We measured just how many decibels.

The company responsible for Clipper’s new fare payment system said that it was making progress on resolving issues, as transit agency leaders voiced their frustration with ongoing glitches.

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He was observing after Alex Pretti’s killing. Feds detained him at gunpoint, sampled his DNA, scanned his face, and cloned his phone.

Have you seen the huge gatherings of crows near Oakland’s Lake Merritt or in downtown San Francisco? There’s an explanation for their behavior.

One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?

Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed more than two dozen people. Not a single agent appears to have faced criminal charges.

Leaked documents detail the dizzying scope of ICE operations

Leaked documents show Border Patrol needs volunteers for Minneapolis surge

The crash was previously unreported.

Key Messages from the NOAA Climate Prediction CenterIssued January 2, 2026 and Updated January 6, 2026

The A's are running into a bit of an issue with their move to Las Vegas

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Due to changes in the transportation system, nearly half of single-piece First Class Mail may end up being postmarked a day (or more) after the mail was sent.

Early on Thursday, Dec. 25, severe winds gusting up to 114 miles per hour tore loose half of the shutter on the 140-year old 36-inch Great Refractor dome. No one was injured.

Oakland alleges that a property owner cut down 38 trees without permits across his land, on city property and on his neighbors’ lots. The owner is also battling his neighbors in court.

Nearly 130,000 San Francisco households and businesses lost power due to unexpected PG&E blackouts that brought a massive portion of the city to a halt — darkening homes and causing traffic...