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The Oaklandside

Who lives in downtown Oakland’s shiny new apartment towers?

SF Gate

Bay Area nonprofit Signal shows how bloated tech companies have become

San Francisco Chronicle

Sam Altman returns to the helm of OpenAI after leadership turmoil

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F.’s new IKEA has enlivened former downtown ‘dead spot’ — but it hasn’t solved everything

San Francisco Chronicle

‘I’m just done with S.F.’: Longtime business could shut down due to crime, looming $2.5 million loan

Bay Nature

Newfangled Horizontal Levees Rise (Gently) Across the Bay

NBC Bay Area

Carbon capture company opens facility near Bay Area

Gilroy Dispatch

Mount Madonna School students work to revitalize campus lake ecosystem

San Francisco Chronicle

Thanksgiving forecast: Bay Area weather to shift throughout holiday weekend

KQED

In Transit: Bay Area Transportation News on Everything That Moves

San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco won’t extend metered parking hours, after all. Here’s why

San Francisco Examiner

Safai drops controversial parking meter proposal — for now

San Francisco Standard

San Francisco Halts Plan To Extend Parking Meters to Sundays, Late Nights

Mercury News

‘Are intersections overengineered?’ reader asks after four-way stop smooths traffic: Roadshow

San Francisco Chronicle

Thanksgiving travel to set records; here’s how to avoid the worst in the Bay Area

San Francisco Chronicle

Cruise’s CEO resigned. Here’s how it impacts the company’s robotaxis returning to S.F. streets

Reuters

US transport chief aims to ensure Cruise, other self-driving vehicles safe

Mercury News

California’s gas prices fall below $5 for first time since July

Engadget

Smarter public transit comes at the cost of rider anonymity

Mercury News

400-plus homes are eyed at choice site near San Jose BART station

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F. to miss state housing deadline, jeopardizing local planning control

Mercury News

43-unit housing project for homeless youth coming to San Jose

Bloomberg

Higher Interest Rates Are Shattering Housing Dreams Around the World

San Francisco Chronicle

How mass resignation of OpenAI workers could impact S.F.’s real estate market

San Francisco Standard

San Francisco Businesses Suffered Major Losses During APEC, Owners Say

Mercury News

Big Basin: Redwood trees’ recovery is ‘remarkable’ three years after huge fire, while some species are still struggling

San Francisco Chronicle

California environmentalists sue to stop replanting of sequoia groves

Mercury News

Monarch butterfly numbers down again, but no reason to panic … yet

KQED

The Best Bay Area Hikes for Spotting Wildlife

Local News Matters

Spawning a new record: Mokelumne salmon run largest EBMUD has seen in over 80 years

Mass Transit

MTC approves emergency transit operations funding plan

Mercury News

Boaters and bicyclists at odds in debate over Alameda’s plan for drawbridge to Oakland

Mercury News

Map: Speed cameras are likely to be placed on these San Jose streets

Local News Matters

Bay Area roads stuck in ‘fair’ condition for 7 years straight — pavement conditions report

Mercury News

Thanksgiving travel is back: Californians to see record-breaking traffic on freeways, at airports

Mercury News

‘Dangerous by design:’ San Pablo Avenue will soon be reimagined to improve safety, efficiency

Mercury News

Submit your own name idea for San Jose’s BART extension tunneling machine

Berkeleyside

A hit-and-run driver nearly killed her son on Halloween. Now this Berkeley mother is demanding safer streets

San Francisco Standard

Go Take a Hike—Without a Car—on These Sweet Bay Area Trails Accessible by Public Transit

San Francisco Standard

Drivers Owe San Francisco $200M in Unpaid Parking Tickets

San Francisco Standard

12 Things You Never Knew About San Francisco’s Iconic Cable Cars

Cal Matters

Across California, eviction cases have returned to — or surpassed — pre-pandemic levels

San Francisco Chronicle

Home values are rising in every major California city except this one

Marin Independent Journal

Belvedere commission throws wrench into housing proposal

Gilroy Dispatch

Developer files ‘builder’s remedy’ application for Hecker Pass Road

San Francisco Chronicle

Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns following suspension of operations in S.F.

SF Gate

The biggest pot distributor in California has collapsed

San Francisco Chronicle

500 OpenAI employees threaten to join Microsoft following ouster of CEO Sam Altman

San Francisco Chronicle

There’s a big new sea wall along the S.F. Bay. Is this what our future will look like?

Newsweek

Behind the Transit 'Bailout' | Opinion

KPIX

Bay Area road report card finds "fair" pavement conditions for 7th straight year

San Mateo Daily Journal

Bay Area roads earn ‘fair’ grade

Railway Age

Transit Briefs: MTC

Government Technology

Bay Area Transportation Officials Weigh Freeway Tolling Plan

Mercury News

Traffic calming measures part of moving toward San Jose’s 2030 carbon-neutral goal: Roadshow

Marin Independent Journal

SMART leans toward gas tanker storage to regain revenue

San Francisco Chronicle

BART’s 2023 ugly holiday sweaters are here — and they’re glorious

Bloomberg

NYC Congestion Pricing Could Unleash a Transportation Revolution

Mercury News

NIMBYism is a huge affordable housing problem, Fed official says

San Francisco Standard

New Skyscraper Proposed for Downtown San Francisco; It Would Be City’s Third-Highest

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