14+ hour, 43+ min ago   (387+ words) Endorsement: The Bay Area cannot function without public transit....

15+ hour, 35+ min ago   (523+ words) Before Gavin Newsom disappears from Sacramento, it’s worth recounting the many plates he had spinning throughout his eight years as governor. Can a politician be too accomplished? The question isn’t a riddle, or a joke. It’s the conundrum facing California…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (358+ words) sfchronicle.com The nation’s largest alcohol distributor has agreed to pay $12.5 million to resolve a federal investigation into years of alleged bribery and false invoicing tied to wine sales in California supermarkets, federal prosecutors said Thursday The Florida-based company,…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (500+ words) The laws will penalize large social media companies up to $1 million per child if they are found negligent of harming children through their platforms, ban tech businesses from offering addictive feeds to anyone under 16 and require operators of AI chatbots…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1150+ words) Cecilia Alveraz (in red) speaks with Eliza Reyes, a home visitor from Early Head Start, at her home in Reedley, in Fresno County. Nearly 86,000 of California’s children ages 0 to 3 — more than 5% of the state’s infants and toddlers — are estimated to…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (456+ words) Trump administration officials say federal regulations preempt a forthcoming California ban on sales of single-use, one-pound propane canisters used to fuel camping stoves. Reusable one-pound propane canisters can be refilled using larger backyard grill tanks. The Trump administration this week…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (577+ words) A San Francisco Department of Elections worker sorts ballots from the June primary. November’s general election features numerous complicated measures. What does a public bank do, and does San Francisco need one? If you’re a San Francisco voter and have…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (702+ words) Point Reyes Station in west Marin County is poised to see one of the county’s largest housing developments in decades break ground next year. A long-planned affordable housing project at a former Coast Guard site in west Marin County is…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (235+ words) A magnitude 3.7 earthquake struck off the Northern California coast near Petrolia Wednesday evening. A second, magnitude 3.6 quake followed 44 seconds later. A magnitude 3.7 earthquake struck off the Northern California coast Wednesday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake hit at…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (249+ words) Capitol Confidential Pro, Powered by USLege, is designed to help policy professionals capture the context surrounding active legislation. The California launch follows the platform’s New York rollout and expands the Hearst Newspapers and USLege collaboration into one of the country’s…...