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Election results all but final, East Palo Alto’s new council members eager to get to work
Three candidates have emerged as the winners in the race for East Palo Alto City Council where nine contenders vied to secure one of the three spots up ...
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SF supervisors approve expansive new home for museum showcasing city’s LGBTQ history
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Online obsession drove suspect to fly from Canada in plot to kill rival, authorities claim
What started as a casual house party ended with three people stabbed in what Monterey County Sheriff’s investigators now believe was the violent ...
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Best Bets: Christmas in the Park, ‘Waitress,’ Scrooge, sock skating, ‘Merry-Achi Christmas’
The 50-foot Community Giving Tree is a centerpiece of San Jose's three-pronged downtown holiday celebration. (Christmas in ...
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Christmas in the Park going dark? SJ holiday tradition needs spirit of giving to stay afloat
DOZENS OF PEOPLE crowd around hundreds of trees wearing Santa hats and reindeer antlers, hanging ornaments and laughing. San Jose’s beloved Christmas in ...
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Newsom vows to reinstate EV rebate program if new administration ends federal tax credit
Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to reinstate California’s rebate program for zero-emission vehicles, or ZEVs, if a federal tax credit for them is ...
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Truckin’ into Christmas: Sonoma celebrates the season with 2nd Lighted Tractor Parade
Ablaze with red and green lights, Christmas trees and all manner of decorations, a procession of rather unconventional vehicles will circle the city of ...
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Panto in the Presidio brings a wild ‘Peter Pan’ to San Francisco for the holidays
Since 2021, the local theater troupe Panto in the Presidio has made it a holiday tradition to take beloved characters—Aladdin once, Sleeping Beauty ...
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Piedmont turns annual Thanksgiving event into memorial for three killed in truck crash
PIEDMONT’S NORMALLY JOYFUL annual Turkey Trot began Thursday morning as a memorial for three young people who died in a car crash Wednesday. “A ...
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Newsom appoints judges to fill vacancies on Alameda, Santa Clara county superior courts
Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced three judicial appointees and the nomination of a fourth affecting Alameda and Santa Clara counties. Charles A. Smiley, an ...
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Interfaith Winter Shelter program returns for season, expanding SF’s shelter bed capacity
San Francisco has opened its Interfaith Winter Shelter for the season. Now in its 36th year, the program officially operates through March 30 and ...
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Bay Area will have something to look forward to on Thanksgiving — a reprieve from rainfall
An extended period of rain that has seen some parts of the Bay Area receive nearly two dozen inches of precipitation in the last week is expected to end ...