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A six-mile stretch of Interstate 15 near California's border with Nevada remained shut in both directions Wednesday because of icy road conditions as the beginning of a massive winter weather storm moved into the region.Officials made the emergency road closure just before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday after "weather reduced roadway visibility," the California Department of Transportation said.

Flood warnings were in effect for wide swaths of Northern California as new storms threatened flooding in some regions.Areas of concern
Particular areas of concern are the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz County and the Salinas River in Monterey County, the North Bay, Merced County, parts of San Mateo County and Mendocino County.

The gunfire rang out Monday afternoon in the farms that dot the coastal hills of San Mateo County in and around Half Moon Bay.When it was over, seven people were dead at multiple agricultural locations.Then, the alleged gunman was found parked next to a Sheriff's Office substation, where he was taken into custody.

Dangerously high winds - in some areas reaching over 90 mph - battered Northern California late Wednesday and into Thursday morning, though forecasters say the worst of the gusty weather has likely passed for the region.Wind speeds reached 101 mph at Pablo Point in Marin County overnight, possibly the most extreme of the gusts during the strong atmospheric river storm that caused flooding, mass power outages and at least two deaths.

San Mateo County, Calif., has agreed to pay $4.5 million to the family of a Black man who died in 2018 after a sheriff's deputy repeatedly used a Taser on him during a struggle that began when law enforcement officers saw the man jaywalking on a busy street, the county confirmed on Tuesday.The man, Chinedu Valentine Okobi, 36, died on Oct. 3, 2018, after the struggle that day with deputies from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Department, who said he had been walking in and out of traffic on a busy street in Millbrae, about 15 miles south of downtown San Francisco.

A rare and powerful winter storm sweeping the West Coast is battering areas unaccustomed to snow and wintry mix, bringing parts of Portland, Ore., to a halt before moving south toward California.The varied precipitation, ranging from rain to snow to graupel, a slushier version of snow, was met with a mix of distress and marvel: Whiteout conditions shuttered roads in the mountains and stranded drivers, while beaches in areas like Santa Cruz, Calif., received a light dusting.

For years, a mile-long stretch of sand on the rural San Mateo County coast was known for loud late night parties that left behind huge piles of litter.On Tuesday, the stunning property, once owned by rock singer Chris Isaak, moved a big step closer to becoming a new public park the first of its kind in more than 50 years.

The rain has mostly cleared in San Francisco though there is still a chance of thunderstorm cells and light showers passing through and there are some road closures around the Bay due to flooding.These include a section of southbound Junipero Serra Boulevard between Serramonte Boulevard and Hickey Boulevard in South San Francisco; Highway 37 near the interchange with Highway 101 in Novato; and Highway 13 in Oakland, which had multiple trees down on it last night.

OPINION
April 24, 2023
BY DAVE PRICE Daily Post Editor
Many elected officials in San Mateo County were living it up over the weekend (April 21-23) at the San Mateo County Chamber's annual Progress Seminar.The event was in Sonoma County in the heart of Wine Country.Why wasn't this event held in San Mateo County?

In 2021, San Mateo County, California, banned people incarcerated in county jails from receiving physical mail.Instead, family and friends were required to mail their letters to Smart Communications, a private for-profit company based in Florida that would scan and destroy those letters so that incarcerated people would be required to access them digitally through a limited number of shared tablets and kiosks in public spaces within the jails.

Late Wednesday morning SF Mayor London Breed shared the news that two unidentified people died during storm-related mayhem the day before.We don't yet know the causes of death for two San Franciscans who died Tuesday, but both suffered injuries in the storm and were taken to Zuckerberg SF General Hospital.

Around 89,000 Bay Area PG&E customers were still without power on Wednesday morning following Tuesday's storm.Almost 50,000 of those were in the East Bay, and over 8,000 are in San Francisco.[KRON4] Ferry service was canceled Tuesday, contributing to general chaos during the evening commute, and waves were splashing up on the Embarcadero.

The San Mateo County Board of Education has filed suit against the parent companies of YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok citing evidence that they were designed to be addictive and are harming the mental health of children.But where is San Mateo County resident corporation Meta in all this?Following in the footsteps of Seattle's public school district, which filed a similar lawsuit in January, the school district in San Mateo County filed suit Wednesday against Snap Inc., Alphabet Inc., and ByteDance Inc., which respectively own Snapchat, YouTube, and TikTok, claiming that they are negligently harming American children and "monetizing misery" through the design of their apps.

Community college enrollment took a steep dive during the COVID-19 pandemic, hitting its lowest numbers in 30 years.Now, colleges across the Bay Area are trying to lure students back with a tactic that might be hard to resist: free tuition.When I first started, it was like a ghost town, said Omolola Atolagbe, who began at Oakland's Laney College in 2021.

Santa Clara County officials could soon fulfill one of their long-term goals-making it easier for teachers to live where they work.The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is voting today to secure approximately five acres at 10333 N. Wolfe Road in Cupertino to construct affordable housing for educators.

REDWOOD CITY Three affordable housing projects are set to split $42.8 million in funding from the state, including two projects on the Peninsula and one coast apartment complex reserved for farmworkers and their families.The state funds officials announced this month will help build a total of 212 units across San Mateo County as part of its ongoing commitment to fighting the Bay Area's affordability crisis: a 71-unit project in Moss Beach with several apartments reserved for local farmworkers, a 69-unit project in Burlingame and a 72-unit apartment near the Colma BART station.

A case from the summer of 2021  one of a spate of high-profile robberies involving French bulldogs in the Bay Area  is finally hitting a courtroom in San Mateo County, and it was not a random theft.We heard about the case in late July 2021, after armed robbers allegedly stormed a South San Francisco motel room a month earleir and violently stole an eight-month-old French bulldog named Prada.