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Government Technology

Just in Time for Super Bowl LX, BART Rolls Out Tech Upgrades

Mass Transit

BART releases 2026-2035 Sustainability Action Plan

Smart Cities

How one city increased transit bus speeds by 20%

Mercury News

Here’s where traffic could snarl across the Bay Area for the Super Bowl

Mercury News

Hundreds of homes could sprout at big San Jose office building site

San Jose Spotlight

Cupertino council approves unique affordable housing project

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F.’s shuttered mall could be sold for a deep discount. Here’s who might buy it

Mercury News

Building entrepreneurs and revitalizing East Bay downtown districts

San Francisco Chronicle

Tech layoffs: Meta cutting more than 100 Bay Area jobs

Cal Matters

California spends billions based on this pollution tracker. Who benefits from its latest update?

New York Times

People in This San Francisco Suburb Would Like the Earth to Just Stop Shaking, Please

San Francisco Chronicle

The latest plan for California high-speed rail: Connect it to Yosemite

Mercury News

East Bay officials unhappy as BART keeps Irvington station plans on ice

San Mateo Daily Journal

Work on 92/101 connector plan in San Mateo pushed to 2027

Marin Independent Journal

Marin kicks off study for Drake Boulevard multiuse path

Cal Matters

New transit housing bill revives California’s Democratic divisions over local control

Mercury News

Property deal helps launch San Jose housing development near BART

San Francisco Chronicle

Trump called affordability a ‘hoax.’ Now he’s taking credit for lower rents

Local News Matters

Citizen group loses challenge to Tiburon’s environmental review of housing plan

San Francisco Standard

Strike date set: SFUSD teachers to walk off jobs Monday

Mercury News

Google’s quarterly results paint a picture of an internet powerhouse getting stronger in AI age

Sonoma Index-Tribune

Sebastopol-based barbecue sauce maker to be acquired for $400 million

San Francisco Chronicle

A long-awaited California water policy promises balance. Opponents call it an ‘extinction plan’

Gilroy Dispatch

Conservationists buy 2,284 acres of Sargent Ranch property

Sonoma Index-Tribune

Supervisors award Sonoma Ecology Center $200,000 grant for wildfire prevention

Mercury News

Protection for California mountain lions could become permanent

Local News Matters

Spare the Air day, wood burning ban issued for Bay Area Thursday

Berkeleyside

Rep. Simon introduces a bill to nationalize BART’s ambassador program

San Francisco Standard

We ran the numbers: BART was delayed 35,105 times in the last 2 years

Local News Matters

Avoiding a transit ‘death spiral’: $590M loan from state staves off Bay Area service cuts

Fairfield Daily Republic

Bike champion nominations underway

San Mateo Daily Journal

San Mateo's Humboldt bike lanes to stay

San Francisco Chronicle

Parking at this Bay Area ferry terminal will now cost $3 on busy midweek days

Cal Matters

Some California high-speed rail records could remain secret under proposed law

Cal Matters

New transit housing bill revives California’s Democratic divisions over local control

Local News Matters

Descendants of Piedmont’s first Black family sue city over racially motivated land seizure

San Francisco Chronicle

SFJazz founder is building city’s first affordable housing for artists at historic site

Coastide News

Coastal Commission delays vote on Pacifica's short-term rental rules

San Francisco Standard

San Francisco hits the boom-loop reset button

Richmond Standard

San Pablo launches new branding to drive economic growth

Mercury News

California’s 4.5% economic growth was middling in third quarter

San Francisco Chronicle

Amazon to lay off nearly 800 workers across the Bay Area

Fairfield Daily Republic

Workforce agency preparing for thousands of lost jobs with industry closures

Marin Independent Journal

Marin’s king tide preparations worked — until they didn’t

Marin Independent Journal

Highway 101 flooding solution in central Marin remains years away

Marin Independent Journal

Marin presses AT&T over 911 disruption during storm

Marin Independent Journal

Santa Venetia struggles to resolve flood wall impasse

Marin Independent Journal

Marin flood aid outlook complicated by FEMA changes

Richmond Standard

BART launches free high-speed Wi-Fi at five major stations

San Francisco Chronicle

BART to get free Wi-Fi at several stations — a year later than expected

Daily Cal

Bay Area transit agencies stave off service cuts with $590M loan

Daily Cal

BART crime drops 41% in 2025 as BayPass boosts student ridership

San Francisco Chronicle

Is S.F. catching drivers parked in bike lanes? Here’s what the data shows

Cal Matters

California has a dangerous driver problem. A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to fix that

San Mateo Daily Journal

Could part of Highway 1 be moved inland?

Local News Matters

Mountain View police say feds make ‘unauthorized’ use of license plate reader

Gilroy Dispatch

Gilroy residents push for crosswalk safety

Mercury News

VTA court battle over eminent domain could go to a jury trial — even though the agency no longer wants the site

Mercury News

Big San Jose housing development takes big step with real estate deal

San Jose Spotlight

San Jose is world’s least affordable city for first-time homebuyers

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