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San Francisco Chronicle

Plunging temps prompt freeze warning for parts of the Bay Area as coldest air mass of 2025 arrives

Bay Nature

The Adder’s-Tongue—Our Fetid Friend in the Shadows

KQED

Can San Francisco Stop Traffic Violence? So Far, Efforts Are Failing

NBC Bay Area

BART to spend $4.3 million to deal with braking glitch on new fleet

San Francisco Examiner

Court rejects San Francisco’s Waymo challenge

San Francisco Chronicle

Did your car insurance just go up? A new California law might be why

San Mateo Daily Journal

Is ‘sustainable’ development pushing residents to drive more?

New Republic

New York’s Congestion Pricing Is Working. Now Comes the Real Test.

Mercury News

Santa Clara County is close to finalizing its housing element, but the delay could create long-term impacts

NBC Bay Area

Mortgage program in East Bay makes homeowning more achievable

San Jose Spotlight

Palo Alto teacher housing project passes the test

Bloomberg

In a City of Sprawl, Wildfire Evacuation Is Getting Harder

Local News Matters

The loneliness of remote work: Older adults most affected by the loss of social networks

Mercury News

What do Trump’s environmental rollbacks mean for California?

San Francisco Examiner

Port plan to improve SF flood resilience on track to head to Congress next

Marin Independent Journal

‘Environmental terrorism’: Point Reyes settlement roils agricultural community

Mercury News

California legislation would speed up light-rail, bus lane conversions, exempting them from environment review

Marin Independent Journal

Highway 37 project critics raise concerns about fairness

San Mateo Daily Journal

Caltrain’s Celebration Train commemorates Martin Luther King Jr Day

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F. to unveil its most ambitious bicycle plan in years, targeting hundreds of routes for upgrades

San Francisco Examiner

SF traffic is second-slowest in US — and getting worse

Railway Age

Transit Briefs: BART’s Passenger Information System being updated

The Oaklandside

OUSD doesn’t offer school buses for most students. Elementary schools are seeing the consequences

Mercury News

San Ramon mixed-use neighborhood creates medical hub to speed housing

San Francisco Examiner

Rising SF office sales hint at commercial real-estate rebound

San Francisco Chronicle

Longtime market in heart of downtown San Mateo to close, with dozens of layoffs

San Francisco Examiner

SF green-tech startup cutting dozens of jobs again

Marin Independent Journal

Marin climate change risks assessed in ‘biosphere’ report

San Jose Spotlight

Santa Clara tackles gas emission reductions

KPIX

California prepares to fight to protect coast during second Trump presidency

San Francisco Examiner

$15M federal grant to help fund 300 EV chargers in SF

Local News Matters

BART safety project means no train this weekend between Walnut Creek, Concord

San Mateo Daily Journal

Bad news for Burlingame’s Broadway grade separation

Mercury News

Dublin begins planning controversial boulevard extension project

Vallejo Times-Herald

Caltrans discusses changes to Sears Point to Mare Island Improvement Project

Richmondside

What’s Up: Richmond gets $9M to make streets safer

San Francisco Examiner

San Francisco looks to boost housing after another year of slow growth

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‘Not enough builders’: How L.A. fires could squeeze Bay Area

Local News Matters

Berkeley tenants buy apartments: A story of Black ownership and affordable housing

Local News Matters

High-profile San Jose office building might convert to housing site

San Mateo Daily Journal

All-time high for San Mateo County’s median home prices in 2024

Cal Matters

Why California keeps putting homes where fires burn

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F.’s economic ranking plummets in key report, marking ‘brutal wake-up call’

San Francisco Chronicle

Downtown S.F. office prices bottomed out in 2024. Here’s why that’s a good thing

San Francisco Chronicle

As Walgreens closes more Bay Area stores, CEO says ‘locking things up’ hurts sales

Knee Deep Times

California Makes Biggest Downpayment Ever for One Region’s Climate-Ready Projects

Knee Deep Times

Collecting and Unifying Regional Metrics on Wetland Health

Fairfield Daily Republic

Putah Creek salmon numbers down 77%, but Putah-hatched fish are back

Marin Independent Journal

Agency to vet Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike lane experiment

San Francisco Chronicle

S.F. traffic tickets are declining — again. What’s behind the new drop?

Mass Transit

Bay Area transit agencies sign the Equity In Infrastructure Project Pledge

Vacaville Reporter

Dixon awarded $25 million federal grant

Fairfield Daily Republic

Dixon railway crossing to get $25 million federal grant

Fairfield Daily Republic

County sees need for eminent domain for bridge rehab project

Associated Press

Traffic into Manhattan drops 7.5% in first week of new toll. That’s 43,000 fewer cars a day

San Francisco Standard

Great Highway affordable housing project grows taller, dividing Sunset residents

Mercury News

California and Bay Area hotel development flops as market nosedives

Press Democrat

Plans for 7-story apartment project revived for downtown Santa Rosa

Marin Independent Journal

San Rafael’s latest housing prospect: High-rise with 180 apartments

San Francisco Chronicle

Meta to lay off 3,600 employees as Zuckerberg focuses on efficiency

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