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Pittsburg is a city with a rich history, and an exciting future ahead, said Gale, adding he looks forward to working with the City Council, community, city staff and businesses. Together, we will strengthen the local economy, enhance public services, and continue making Pittsburg a place where families and businesses can thrive, said Gale. I'm excited to get started and honored to join a community that values collaboration, innovation, and opportunity for all.

This year's experience includes new themes - explore the future of Oakland, learn about coexisting with wildlife, swim through the reef to see colorful underwater creatures, go on a safari through the savanna to spot iconic African animals, meet some interesting bugs that are all around us, and end the night by taking the train through the reptile world. Finish your experience with a train ride through an Avian Odyssey, with our winged, feathered friends from parrots to puffins!

Newsom got a lot of heat from his fellow Democrats for his podcast chats with controversial figures on the right, but a new poll shows he seems to be making headway with a demographic where the left lost ground to President Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans: young men. The governor was undeterred by the criticism, saying that Democrats needed to get out of our own damn bubble on a May episode of his podcast.

San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safai talked about working with Lazar. Safai said he could call Lazar at any moment he had questions about policies and would tell him when he was wrong. CEO of the Union Square Alliance, Marisa Rodriquez, said that Lazar is missed by many community members after he retired. Lazar retired in May from SFPD. "I will say that about 800,000 people in San Francisco are jealous of this opportunity you have before you," Rodriquez said. Lazar helped the city during the pandemic and worked together with Rodriguez to address crime issues, leading to a decrease, she said, offering the data to the supervisors.

When January 2025's Eaton fire raged through Altadena, just outside of LA, Good Neighbor bar had only been open for less than two months. Owned by Randy Clement, his life partner April Langford, and Emely Cubias, the bar became one of the few businesses that remained standing in the aftermath of the blaze. The Eaton fire destroyed over 9,400 structures. Along with the Palisades fire, it became the costliest natural disaster in US history with more than $250 billion in damage.

The Board was demanding that I compromise my integrity and values. I would not do that, she said. I stand by my values and my reputation as a professional administrator for the past twenty-five years.

Detectives instead focused on a dispute Jackson was having with his landlord. "As you can imagine, in 1993 they did not have a lot of the things that we have available to us today to find leads - no electronic footprint like we have these days," Smyth said. "They relied heavily on witnesses, fingerprints, that sort of thing. DNA was in its infancy."

Novato police arrested four suspects in the theft of about $33,000 worth of eyewear products, including 90 pairs of glasses. The theft happened at about 3 p.m. Friday at the LensCrafters store at the Vintage Oaks Shopping Center. Witnesses said the thieves fled in a Dodge Charger without license plates. A California Highway Patrol officer stopped the vehicle on southbound Highway 101 in Terra Linda. Investigators determined that three men and a 17-year-old boy were the thieves.

Stanford is bringing live music back to its football stadium and amid concerns that its proposed concerts will be too loud, a Santa Clara County planner ruled today (Nov. 10) that the event can move forward. Principal Planner Robert Salisbury granted Stanford a permit to host a three-night concert series at the stadium this spring in a public hearing this morning. The event would take place May 16, 17 and 19 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., and include fireworks displays each night.

The house at 14650 Sixth St. is known as the Nardie house and was built in the Queen Anne style. It was added to the city's Heritage Resource Inventory in 1988 because it met two of the listed criteria in the municipal code: embodying distinctive characteristics of style, type, period or method or construction and being a valuable example of the use of indigenous materials.

I bought her some roses, some chocolates from See's and a Teddy that said be mine forever," Alvaraz said.

The driver behind the wheel of a minivan fled from police across four counties, speeding across freeways and evading the California Highway Patrol until the suspect made it across the border into Mexico, officials said, where they seemingly escaped. Attempts to stop the vehicle using spike strips failed as the van continued to speed south through Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, as police pursued the van for more than two hours.

The fire broke out at Avenue Liquor Store on Roosevelt Avenue in the early morning hours of Nov. 3, authorities said. When firefighters arrived at the scene around 5:30 a.m., they found the store completely engulfed in flames and began attempts to contain the blaze. Firefighters located the two victims inside the structure and confirmed that they were deceased, authorities said.

On Wednesday, executives from a group called the Esmeralda Land Company will present their plans to officials in Cloverdale, a small city of roughly 9,000 residents in northern Sonoma County. The project, titled Esmeralda, is led by Devon Zuegel, a tech worker who hopes to build a hotel, new housing, and a park on a 266-acre piece of land in the southern end of the city.

Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Christine Pelosi, is tossing her hat into the ring for the California state senate, just days after her mom announced her retirement from Congress. The younger Pelosi, a longtime political consultant and former chairperson of the California Democratic Women's Caucus, announced her campaign on social media on Monday morning. Hi, I'm Christine Pelosi. Attorney, author, advocate, wife, mom, and today, a candidate for California State Senate, she says in a campaign video accompanying the post.

He created the documentary "Straight Outta Hunters Point" in 2003, and his film "Sucker Free City," directed by Spike Lee, aired on Showtime. In 2024, he took over editorship of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, and just last month, the Society of Professional Journalists of Northern California awarded him the Silver Heart Award for revitalizing the paper when it was "on the brink of closure." The award noted his work in Black media and mentoring members of the community.

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Emari O'Garrow, 47, is accused of coaxing a woman into coming to his apartment, where he allegedly forced himself on her and raped her. The victim's description of the attack evokes his five prior rape and sexual assault convictions overseas, where he spoke to his victims with a tone and confidence that signaled that he not only was consciously ignoring their refusals to sex, but that their pleas to stop sexually excited him.

The City of Pasadena and the Rose Bowl Operating Co. filed a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeking to prevent UCLA from leaving the Rose Bowl or terminating its stadium lease until pending litigation against the school is resolved. The filing contends that the plaintiffs would suffer "immediate and irreparable harm if the status quo is not preserved during the pendency of this lawsuit." A hearing has tentatively been scheduled for Wednesday morning.

SANTA CRUZ - For years, the San Lorenzo River mouth surf break in Santa Cruz has been celebrated by local surfers and history buffs as the location where surfing was first introduced to the continental United States more than a century ago. On Friday, state authorities stepped in to make that recognition official. The California Historical Resource Commission unanimously agreed to designate the Three Princes' Surf Site at the San Lorenzo River mouth as a California Historical Landmark. The application process was spearheaded by California State Parks but came after at least a decade of advocacy work among local community members and surfers.

While the company has been working hard to garner trust in the community and distance itself from California Forever, Esmeralda shares similarities with the Solano-based company. Like California Forever CEO Jan Sramek, Zuegel worked in Silicon Valley, including at the software developer platform Github and blockchain company Bloom Protocol. And similar to California Forever's experience in Solano County, residents in Cloverdale raised questions about Esmeralda's investors. Rumors circulated early on, claiming Esmeralda is backed by venture capitalist Peter Thiel. While Zuegel has refuted that rumor and denied any relations to the conservative libertarian, she has declined to reveal the identities of the project's 19 backers. When the question came up during a project open house in October, Zuegel was nonspecific, saying they "tend to actually be private individuals who live in the Bay Area."

A cyclist was hospitalized after being stabbed at the famed Marin Headlands on Saturday, officials said. CHP spokesperson Arthur Tellez told SFGATE the stabbing occurred at 11:40 a.m. on a congested section of Conzelman Road, near Alexander Avenue where the roads intersect with Highway 101. Tellez said the driver of a black Tesla and a cyclist got into an altercation, with the cyclist suffering stab wounds from a knife.

Six years into this law journey, and I'm still all in until I pass the bar,

Google had recently made the visual search tool easier to use on the company's Chrome browser. When users click on an icon hidden in the tool bar, a moveable bubble pops up. Wherever the bubble is placed, a sidebar appears with an artificial intelligence answer, description, explanation or interpretation of whatever is inside the bubble. For students, it provides an easy way to cheat on digital tests without typing in a prompt, or even leaving the page. All they have to do is click.

San Juan Hills had the right player to turn to in the final seconds of its Southern Section Division 2 football playoff game against Downey on Friday night. Kyle Donahue delivered a walk-off 24-yard field goal for a 28-27 victory. The rise of Donahue this season is legitimate. He has made 11 of 13 field goals and kicked 93% of his kickoffs for touchbacks.

A series of small earthquakes rattled the Bay Area on Sunday morning. According to preliminary data from the U.S. Geological Society, four quakes shook the East Bay between 9:30 a.m. and 9:50 a.m.

Rotary International's No. 1 focus area is promoting peace, so Mrs. Brandenburg couldn't have brought us a better project.

Sierra Canyon won its second Southern Section Division 1 girls' volleyball title in four years Saturday night and ended Mater Dei's bid for a three-peat with a 23-25, 25-23, 25-20, 25-21 victory at Cerritos College. The Trailblazers (39-3) are expected to be seeded No. 1 in the Open Division when CIF SoCal Regional brackets are released Sunday afternoon. The state playoffs are set to begin Tuesday and wrap up Nov. 22 at Santiago College.

When the ball was thrown in her direction with the championship on the line, Avery Olson was ready. There was no time on the clock when the JSerra junior defender ran step for step with Orange Lutheran receiver Josie Anderson, who dove but could not reach it in the end zone - an exciting finish to the Southern Section Division 1 girls' flag football final Saturday night at Fred Kelly Stadium in Orange.

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California YIMBY, an organization founded eight years ago to promote housing construction in response to an ever-increasing gap between demand and supply, held a victory party in San Francisco recently. Welcome to the most victorious of California YIMBY's victory parties, Brian Hanlon, founder and CEO of the organization, told attendees. Its acronym (Yes In My Backyard) symbolizes its years-long battle with NIMBYs (Not in My Backyard), people and groups who have long thwarted housing projects by pressuring local governments that control land use.

Newsom said Assembly Bill 255, which would have allowed cities to use up to 10% of their state funds to pay for "recovery housing," was unnecessary. That's because using state funds for sober housing is already allowed, the governor said. He said "recent guidance" makes that clear. That was a big surprise to Assemblymember Matt Haney, who had spent the past two years working on the bill Newsom was now saying had been moot all along.

"This was a terrifying set of events. This happened Halloween night, early Nov. 1 morning," says Officer Byron White with the Berkeley Police Department. Officer White says Berkeley police got a call around 6 a.m. of a suspicious man inside a UC Berkeley sorority house - Alpha Chi Omega. INTERACTIVE: Neighborhood Safety Tracker The man is identified as 45-year-old Courtney Alford. Police say Alford fled using a side door.