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Pleasanton PD investigating Apple store theft
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Pleasanton Police Department is investigating a grand theft that took place at the Apple store inside of Stoneridge Mall, a police spokesperson said. The theft occurred around 4:15 p.m. on Monday, PPD Community and Public Relations Coordinator Teri Yan said. She said two...
Giants rookie matches Barry Bonds with wild streak
San Francisco Giants rookie Tyler Fitzgerald on Tuesday joined some pretty elite company with his recent home run streak. Fitzgerald entered his team’s contest against the Los Angeles Dodgers with a home run streak of four games. The Giants shortstop made it five in a row in his first at-bat of Tuesday’s game at Dodger... The post Giants rookie matches Barry Bonds with wild streak appeared first on Larry Brown Sports.
The Marías dive head first into Fox Theater with ‘The Submarine Tour’
On the first night of their “Submarine Tour,” July 16, the Marías flooded Fox Theater with a wash of rich sounds and soft vocals. The Oakland crowd’s impassioned excitement was matched by the band — the group was clearly eager to show off its new album, Submarine, released less than two months earlier.
Frustrated by school web filters, one teenager created his own
During early COVID lockdowns, a teen worked with his family to raise $1.8 million in venture funding and built a web filter with a team of data scientists and psychologists that he now hopes will help students safely surf the web.
The Crucible may not survive the year, current and former employees say
The Crucible, an artist’s hub and school specializing in welding and fire arts, should be celebrating its 25th anniversary. Instead, former and current employees say the beloved West Oakland organization is suffering from financial mismanagement and teetering on the brink of insolvency. The nonprofit organization has also not filed...
ACC notebook: Cal, Stanford ready for cross-country trips
As the Pac-12 Conference fell apart in summer 2023, a lifeline came for San Francisco Bay Area institutions Cal and Stanford from an unlikely destination: the Atlantic Coast Conference. On Tuesday, the Golden Bears and Cardinal football programs received formal introductions to their cross-country conference mates during ACC media days in Charlotte, N.C. Cal coach Justin Wilcox was asked about his team's "wild" schedule, in which the Golden Bears will travel to Auburn in Week 2 before flying 2,200-plus miles to Tallahassee just two weeks later to take on Florida State in ACC play. "If you would have asked me...
City Council will consider allowing taller, denser housing throughout Berkeley
The Berkeley City Council will consider a proposal Tuesday that would make it easier to build denser housing all of the city’s neighborhoods, taking another step toward implementing its precedent-setting 2021 move to ban single-family zoning in the city. It’s part of a continued push to shape the future...
Berkeley zoning has served for many decades to separate the poor from the rich and whites from people of color
Editors’ note: A version of this story first appeared on Berkeleyside in March 2019. Stored away in the file cabinets of City Hall is a series of binders dating back to 1916. These binders each contain several hundred pages of systematically organized documents in neat legal language. At the back of each section is a map of Berkeley with a small number on each property – R-1, C-1, M. This is Berkeley’s zoning code.
Jason Bircea ’17 Chose UC Berkeley Twice
In community college, Jason Bircea came across UC Berkeley’s English department website and was blown away by a student’s honors thesis on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Never Let Me Go. “I decided I wanted to go to a school that would teach me how to write like that,”...
Hohler, Kerley To Lead Cumulus San Francisco’s Sports Radio
Cumulus Media has made dual programming promotions within its San Francisco Bay Area sports radio brands. Mike Hohler has been elevated from Assistant Program Director to Program Director of three stations, while John Kerley steps into that same APD role. Hohler, who started with Cumulus San Francisco in 2002 as...
Grants Awarded for Bay Area Adaptive Bikeshare Pilots
The MTC Regional Network Management Committee last week approved $200,000 in grants to help fund adaptive bikeshare pilot projects for people with disabilities in five Bay Area cities. Funding has been provided through the One Bay Area Grants (OBAG 3) Climate Initiatives program. A contract with the San Francisco Recreation...
TIMELINE: Hottest day of inland heat wave with advisories and warnings still in effect
Tuesday is day two of three for the Bay Area's inland heat wave and will be the hottest day of the week.The hottest cities reach 100-104 in the afternoon with Moderate to Major heat risk continuing.LIVE: Track real-time temperatures during Bay Area heat waveHeat Advisory and Excessive Heat Warning continue until Wednesday eveningThe Coast remains comfy in the 60s and 70s.Much cooler air arrives Friday.WATCH: Heat wave vs. heat exhaustion - how to tell the differenceMeteorologist Drew Tuma explains the symptoms of heat stroke and heat exhaustion -- and how to tell the difference.VIDEO: Extreme heat dangers and safety tips:...
August is Valley Fever Awareness Month
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — August is Valley Fever Awareness Month and the California Department of Public Health indicates the state may have set a record for Valley Fever cases in 2023. Dr. Carlos D’Assumpcao and Annika Knudsen from Flame & Skewers stopped by 17 News to share details on the illness and promotion happening at […]
Harris supporter from Peninsula mobilizes voters after Biden steps aside
Amid the churn of her printer and chime of her phone, it's been a chaotic couple of days for Kamala Harris supporter Harini Krishnan. "I will say the last 48 hours has been a blur, but it has been a magical blur," she told CBS News Bay Area. Lovingly known as Harini Auntie to young Harris supporters, Krishnan has been championing the current vice president since 2019, and as friend for longer. She leads an organization that was known as South Asians for Biden just 48 hours ago, but has since rebranded to South Asians for Harris in the wake...
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